dea sold its north sea oil fields to ineos, the chemical company owned by jim ratcliffe, for an undisclosed sum in october 2015. at the time, the british government assured letterone that the forced sale of dea's uk assets was "not a judgement on the suitability of letterone’s owners to control these or any other assets in the uk." on 14 october 2015, letterone group announced that it had agreed a deal to acquire german utility e.on's interests in three producing norwegian fields, all located in the norwegian continental shelf. norway's oil minister supported the deal and said that approval would be handled "in the usual way." as of 2016, khan retains positions on the supervisory board at both alfa group consortium and alfa group. he is also a director at alfa finance holdings sa, alfa bank abh holdings s.a., letterone holdings s.a., and the supervisory board of dea deutsche erdoel ag. he ranked as the 128th richest person in europe as of march 2016, with an estimated net value of us$8.7 billion.