Didier Casimiro resigns from India's Nayara Energy after US blacklists him

Didier Casimiro on Friday resigned from the board of Indian refiner Nayara Energy, part-owned by Russian state oil major Rosneft. The US on Tuesday placed Rosneft Trading, a Geneva-based subsidiary of Rosneft, and its president Casimiro on a sanctions list. The US has accused Rosneft Trading of providing a financial lifeline to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government.