The White House was offered to take Lukoil's assets without money

The American investment Bank offered the White House to conduct an operation in which Lukoil would be left without international assets and money for them.

"The American investment bank Xtellus Partners has offered the US Treasury Department to use funds from the sale of Lukoil's foreign assets to compensate American investors who lost money as a result of the freezing of their Lukoil shares," Reuters writes.

Sources told the agency that Xtellus informed the US Treasury Department of its desire to organize a non-cash exchange of Lukoil securities owned by American investors for the global assets of the Russian company.

"American banks, asset managers, including BlackRock, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, lost billions of dollars when they had to first freeze and then write off their shares of Russian companies, including Lukoil," writes Reuters.

According to him, the bank advises the American billionaire Todd Boeli and the United Arab Emirates investment group Allied Investment Partners, which have teamed up for the proposed deal with Lukoil.

Earlier in November, the United States imposed sanctions on Lukoil, but made an exception until December 13 so that Lukoil could sell its international assets, which are estimated at $ 12-22 billion.

"According to sources, the payment of assets in shares may mean a faster transaction, since Western sanctions against Lukoil prohibit the company's money transfers," Reuters writes, adding that until 2022, Western investors owned more than a quarter of Lukoil's shares, and currently the company's value is estimated at about $ 50 billion.