Gazli Gas Storage LLC on March 7 responded to what it described as “unfounded and defamatory media speculation alleging hidden interests” held within the company, the enterprise that is rolling out an $850mn gas storage expansion project in Uzbekistan in line with a planned major scaling up of Russian gas deliveries to the Central Asian country. It issued a statement “to set the record straight”. RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service on March 5 published an article headlined “Uzbek insider takes over gas project linked to sanctioned Russian tycoon closely tied to Putin”. In following up the article, this pub…
