Gazprom offices targeted in EU antitrust raids
Russian gas company Gazprom's offices were raided by EU antitrust regulators, a person familiar with the matter said, as the EU watchdog ramped up its investigation into the company's gas supplies to Europe. EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager in January asked gas companies including Gazprom about tight supplies after accusations the Russian giant was withholding extra production that could be released to lower rising prices. Vestager was likely to intensify information gathering on Gazprom's European businesses, a person familiar with the regulator's thinking told Reuters last month. The European Commission declined to comment. The person declined to provide details of the EU raids. Bloomberg was the first to report the raids in Gazprom'.....