Rotenberg bought 10.7% of Rostelecom from Malofeev

The Marshall Capital Foundation, owned by businessman Konstantin Malofeev, sells its share of 10.7% of Rostelecom’s shares to the structure of businessman Arkady Rotenberg. Here's what became known from the message late in the evening of February 28:

“Under the terms of the transaction, the Universal Telecom Investments Strategies Foundation, 100% of the shares of which owns Marshall Capital, sells its share in Rostelecom OJSC, which is 10.7% of the authorized capital, Bellaared Holdings Limited Rotenberg. "

The amount of the transaction is not disclosed, most likely, however, the shares were purchased above the market.

“We are satisfied with the terms of the transaction. It is fundamentally important for us that the buyer was a domestic strategic investor who was seriously interested in the long -term development of Rostelecom as the largest national telecom operator, ”the words of Malofeev are given in the message.

You can understand the businessman. At the end of last year, he was either arrested, or searched in the case of a loan of $ 225 million. That was how much VTB issued to a certain RUSAGROPROM LLC for the purchase of dairy plants from the Nuthertek group Malofeev. As it turned out after the bankruptcy of Rusagroprom, it owns the same Malofeev, and the plants cost hardly $ 40 million.

After the interrogation of Malofeev and the President of Rostelecom , Alexander Strotorov in this case , the Bastrykin department did not follow. However, as you know, they just do not call businessmen for interrogation. It is possible that it was these events that helped to persuade Konstantin Malofeev to make a deal. Malofeev’s package “Alpha Group” Mikhail Friedman, Leonard Blavatnik, as well as the ONEXIM group Mikhail Prokhorov, want to buy a package of Malofeev, wrote earlier in the media. However, the package went to the structure of Arkady Rotenberg, who in his youth was engaged in judo with Vladimir Putin in Leningrad. Now his fortune is estimated at $ 1 billion. This is the first investment of Arkady Rotenberg in the telecom asset.

About how VTB tried to sue Malofeev in London, but instead was forced to disclose his tax evasion schemes, Slon wrote here . And then about the misadventures of Rostelecom and that Malofeev would still be forced to part with shares.