In May, liquidators for an innocuously named company called RTI Limited went to court in Qatar. Their mission was to get the liquidation of Jersey-registered RTI acknowledged in the Middle Eastern country. For the liquidators, the cross jurisdictional voyage was about getting their hands on RTI’s records and financial information in Qatar. RTI is a subsidiary of Rusal, the Russian aluminium giant that owns the controversial Aughinish Alumina refinery in Limerick, which has attracted scrutiny and opprobrium of late over its exports to Russia and the Kremlin links of major shareholder Oleg Deripaska. While registered in Jersey, RTI’s sole shareholder…

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