WARSAW/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Elektrobudowa, a Polish firm that builds power plants, is interested in buying its partner out of a Russian company they jointly own, but there is a problem: the partner firm is owned by a pro-Moscow Crimean politician on the EU's sanctions list.
To buy out the partner would mean Elektrobudowa transferring cash or assets to the owners and that, say lawyers who specialise in sanctions law, could be interpreted as a violation of the EU measures.
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