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January 22, 2009

The Lebedev Standard, Part 4: Are former KGB officers “fit and proper”?

By Peter Kirwan MM blog

Time to confess. Last week, instead of checking out the potential for government oversight of Alexander Lebedev’s purchase of the Standard, I rambled on hazily about the possibilities. Mea culpa. 

Subsequently, there seems to have been a bit more haziness during discussions between DMGT and the FT, which reports that the deal is ‘not subject to regulatory approval”.

Amanda Andrews at the Telegraph has other ideas:

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