An $11 billion deal with a Russian oil producer, commodity trader Glencore and a Qatari sovereign fund may be under sanctions review, the White House said. Anglo-Swiss trader and mining company Glencore confirmed it was in the final stages of a deal alongside the Qatar Investment Authority to spend $11 billion for a 19.5 percent stake in Russian oil producer Rosneft. The Russian oil producer is a target of U.S. sanctions imposed after the government in Moscow annexed the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine following upheaval in the former Soviet republic in 2014. “Experts at the Department of Treasury that are responsible for constructing and enforcing the sanctions regime will carefully look at a transaction like this,” […]