Instead it marked the beginning of a system whereby a cabal of bureaucrats and businessmen friendly to the Kremlin manage important assets for their own benefit and what they deem to be the state's.The line between the bureaucracy and private assets has become increasingly blurred in recent years.
Ballarta, who does not scowl, could pass for a friendly businessman.
John Singleton, a Sydney businessman who is friendly with Rinehart, told the Herald that her estrangements from her children flow naturally from her priorities.
The groundsman or woman now has to be a scientist, an engineer, a businessman, be media friendly and have a detailed knowledge of agronomy".
Mike Snow, a Congo-based businessman who was friendly with both Smulian and Bout through the aviation industry, had become a D.E.A. informant.
For example, a Zimbabwean nurse in London pays money into a friendly businessman's offshore account, who then asks his cousin in Bulawayo to pay an equivalent amount, in Zimbabwe dollars, to the nurse's mother.
Yet, in April, Mr Watanabe was forced to step down as party leader after he failed to account for how he spent a loan of ¥800m ($7.4m) from a friendly businessman.
Basically, what we still don't know is how badly his old consligiere and Trump himself apparently conspiring with a friendly businessman to make a dirty story go away could blow up in their faces.
All of those buses happen to belong to Jacob Barata, a businessman who's friendly with both Rio's governor and mayor, and – for whatever reason – has never volunteered the use of his bus fleet to transport people to safety at any of the times the city has flooded in the past few years.
Marcos supposedly parked much of his wealth with friendly businessmen.
