Co -owner of Mail.ru Group Yuri Milner sells a shares of shares for $ 60 million

Russian billionaire Yuri Milner sells part of his shares one of the largest Russian Internet companies Mail.ru Group for a total of about 60.7 million dollars, Bloomberg reports.

According to the agency, the assessment of the cost of the sale package is based on quotes at the time of the closing of trading on September 19 - 35.72 dollars for one global depository receipt. The American Goldman Sachs Group is led by the deal.

The Russian agency RIA Novosti failed to take a comment from Milner's representatives regarding this transaction.

Milner is the co -founder of Mail.ru, and in October 2010 he was elected chairman of the board of directors of Mail.ru Group. Milner DST Global Foundation is known for its investments in various Internet companies, in particular in the Twitter microblogs service .

Mail.ru Group owns an email service, online mixers "Mail.ru Agent" and ICQ, social networks "Odnoklassniki" and "My World", as well as other Internet services. The company also owns 2.33% of the shares of the largest social network Facebook, 1.41% of the shares of the Zynga online game developer, 39.9% of the shares of the VKontakte social network and 4.63% of the Groupon Group Buying Service.

In November 2010, Mail.ru Group conducted the primary public placement of shares on the London Exchange, during which it attracted $ 912 million. The company's capitalization is currently estimated at $ 7.6 billion.