{"id":78050,"date":"2019-01-30T14:49:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T13:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/30\/mystery-offshore-investor-takes-20-stake-in-evening-standard\/"},"modified":"2019-01-30T14:49:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T13:49:39","slug":"mystery-offshore-investor-takes-20-stake-in-evening-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=78050","title":{"rendered":"Mystery offshore investor takes 20% stake in Evening Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London newspaper refuses to reveal identity of new financial backerAn anonymous offshore investor has taken a 20% stake in the parent company of George Osborne\u2019s Evening Standard, with the newspaper refusing to reveal the identity of its new financial backer.The newspaper\u2019s Russian owner, Evgeny Lebedev, sold about a fifth of Lebedev Holdings, which has a majority stake in the Evening Standard, to a Cayman Islands-registered company in December, according to official filings that suggest the mysterious new backer has invested millions of pounds in the loss-making London newspaper. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2019\/jan\/30\/mystery-offshore-investor-takes-20-share-in-evening-standard-evgeny-lebedev\" target=\"_blank\">Mystery offshore investor takes 20% stake in Evening Standard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London newspaper refuses to reveal identity of new financial backerAn anonymous offshore investor has taken a 20% stake in the parent company of George Osborne\u2019s Evening Standard, with the newspaper refusing to reveal the identity of its new financial backer.The newspaper\u2019s Russian owner, Evgeny Lebedev, sold about a fifth of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}