Three of the top five German refineries are partly or wholly owned by the Russian state company Rosneft.. This was reported by the journalist of the InformNapalm project Anton Pavlushko..

The investigator notes that Russia influences Germany not only through fuel prices, but also through the influence of Russians on property in the German economy.. At the same time, many German politicians do not know about it at all..

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According to him, politicians in Germany actually learned about this from the press..

" A week later, one of the leaders of the Christian Democrats, Norbert Rottgen, writes indignantly about this refinery on his Twitter. And now the state press is writing analysts about dependence on Russia,"

According to him, three of the five largest German refineries to date turned out to be partially or completely Russian and belong to the state company Rosneft..

It all started in 2010, when Rosneft bought 50% of the local company Ruhr Oel, which controlled four refineries, from the Venezuelan state-owned PDVSA.. The rest of the company was owned by British Petroleum (BP). These four refineries represent a quarter of all German refinery capacity.

In the summer of 2015, BP and Rosneft regrouped - the Gelsenkirchen refinery was completely taken over by BP, and the Russians received BP's share in three other refineries.

So the Russians, thanks to one deal, received: - 24% of the largest German refinery MiRO in Karlsruhe. – 28.57% of the largest Bavarian refinery Bayernoil- 54.17% of PCK Schwedt (largest supplier in the Berlin-Brandenburg region).

Further, in 2021, the Russians agreed with Shell to buy out their 37.5% stake in PCK Schwedt - in this way they would completely control this refinery (\u003e 91%).

The German Antimonopoly Committee agreed on this agreement the day before the start of the war with Ukraine.

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“It is interesting that all these agreements took place peacefully after the war with Georgia or the annexation of Crimea. For some reason, all this happened during the time of Merkel. For some reason, attention was paid to this only now, when Merkel has already left her post, and the Russians are already bombing Ukrainian cities,"

Pavlushko noted that too high prices for fuel and heating have become a threat to a whole generation of German politicians.

" Finally got it,"

Recall, German Economy Minister Robert Gabeck says that Germany was " He spoke about this on the radio "