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2023-06-27 22:44:07 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

There is no evidence that Jacob Rees-Mogg or Somerset Capital (of which he owns shares) invested “almost all his money” in Gazprom. Somerset had a small (£5.7m, less than 2% of its capital) invested in a different Russian gas company at the time of Ukraine’s invasion. https://www.cityam.com/while-looking-for-brexit-opportunities-jacob-rees-mogg-profits-directly-from-chinese-pharma-and-russian-gas-investments/

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• There is no evidence that Jacob Rees-Mogg or Somerset Capital (of which he owns shares) invested “almost all his money” in Gazprom. Somerset had a small (£5.7m, less than 2% of its capital) invested in a different Russian gas company at the time of Ukraine’s invasion. https://www.cityam.com/while-looking-for-brexit-opportunities-jacob-rees-mogg-profits-directly-from-chinese-pharma-and-russian-gas-investments/