"Something is rotten in Germany"

On February 21, 2022, three (!) days before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Bundeskartellamt, Germany's national competition regulatory agency, has cleared the purchase by the Russian Energy Giant Rosneft 37.5% share of German high tech PCK refinery

W H A T ?

This is exactly how I and my team in Graypes GmbH exclaimed while collecting the evaluation report data for the renewable energy business, specializing in auctions.

One of our core services named IRIS ( Information Retrieval on Innovation Search ) is a search engine based on a proprietary NLP and content rating algorithms, that provides key information for the business assessment mechanism. IRIS retrieved the following unveiling link ( and a lot of hypocrisy from the German authorities )

Of course, we all know ( and especially our fellow Germans ) that:

@ Gerhard Schröder, ex-chancellor of Germany is the chairman of the board of Nord Stream and of Rosneft.

@ 600'000 USD is Gerhard's annual salary from Rosneft.

@ 250'000 Euros is Gerhard's annual salary from Nord Stream.

@ Gerhard also receives about 6'500 Euros per month as an annual state pension for his seven years as chancellor.

@ Germany and many Western administrations violated their own sanctions over Russia's role in the 2014 Crimea Ukraine crisis!

But still: W H A T?

THREE (!) days before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the German authorities approve a mega-deal with the Russian Energy Giant?

"Something is badly rotten in the state of Germany" (Including the Intelligence Services)