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Putin, in a televised phone-in on Thursday, had repeated the
erroneous information in comments he made about who he thought
stood behind the leak of the Panama Papers which were handed to
the German newspaper.
"It is more the error of those who prepared the briefing
documents, my error," Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman, told
reporters.
"There was information there that had not been checked and
rechecked again and we gave it to the president. We have
apologized (to the bank) and we will also apologize to the
publication."
(Reporting by Maria Tsvetkova/Alex Winning; Writing by Andrew
Osborn; Editing by Christian Lowe)
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