The State Property Fund announced five candidates for Luganskteplovoz

The State Property Fund reported receiving five applications from potential buyers of a 76% stake in the Luganskteplovoz holding company. As Kommersant predicted, among them were the Energy Standard group of entrepreneur Konstantin Grigorishin, the holding company AvtoKrAZ, controlled by people's deputy Konstantin Zhevago, the Transmashholding corporation (Russia), the German Siemens and the Polish Kolej Baltycka (see Kommersant on June 16). Let us recall that earlier the State Property Fund published the conditions for the sale of 76% of the shares of the most attractive state-owned facility proposed for sale this year - OJSC Luganskteplovoz. The main condition of the competition is to increase sales volumes of locomotives produced at the enterprise to Russia and the CIS countries. Experts believe that this requirement is most beneficial to the Russian corporation Transmashholding, and predict that the price of the stake during the auction will not exceed $100 million.

SCM refused to increase the authorized capital

At the last meeting of shareholders of CJSC System Capital Management (SCM), it was decided not to increase the authorized capital of the company through an additional issue of shares by UAH 855.71 million - up to UAH 858.71 million. SCM refused to clarify the reasons for refusing the additional share issue. However, according to experts, this decision was made due to the intention to develop primarily the industry divisions that are part of the company. Let us recall that SCM previously created management companies for certain industrial sectors: Metinvest Holding for mining and metallurgical assets, Donbass Fuel and Energy Corporation for assets in the energy sector and SCM Finance for assets in the financial sector. At the same time, the Metinvest group accounts for about 80% of the assets owned by SCM. The largest shareholder of SCM is businessman Rinat Akhmetov, who was elected this year as a people's deputy on the Party of Regions list. He owns 90% of the shares, 10% belongs to his wife.

The Russian Ministry of Finance has calculated a new duty on oil exports

Deputy Head of the Customs Payments Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexander Sakovich said that from October 1, the export duty on Russian oil could reach $239 per ton. Let us remind you that from August 1, an oil duty of $216.4 per ton is in effect. The duty on the export of oil and oil products from the Russian Federation is revised by the government every two months based on monitoring the price of Russian Urals oil on world markets. Mr. Sakovich explained that during the monitoring period from July 1 to August 28, the average price of Urals oil was about $69.3 per barrel. “Based on this price, the export duty will most likely be $238-239 per ton,” he said. Also, according to Mr. Sakovich, the duty on light oil products can be increased from $158.1 to $173 per ton, and on dark oil products - from $85.2 to $93 per ton.

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