Perhaps the original correspondent was suggesting it might be unwise to get into a business relationship with what I'm sure is a fine upstanding member of the international oil supplying fraternity, which in no way could be considered to be a bunch of cold war spivs who got lucky, and it is entirely coincidental that the head of the company was thrown into the nearest gulag when he got on the wrong side of a certain ex-KGB man turned politico, not to mention the entirley un-dubious surroundings of the helicopter chrash that recently did for the lawyer who was running things from the UK, who was not at all rumoured to have turned supergrass.
Alledgedly.
[editted (Twice!) as ever for spelling]