Rosneft President Igor Sechin became president and chairman of the board of TNK-BP Management, which manages the assets of TNK-BP. newspaper writes about this in its issue dated March 25 The Vedomosti , citing company employees.

According to the publication, the vice president of the oil company, Elena Kalanda, will also combine positions in TNK-BP and Rosneft. She worked for TNK-BP since 1997, and in 2006 she moved to Rosneft.

The day before, Igor Sechin made it clear that he could independently head TNK-BP. Answering a question from Interfax about who will lead the company, Sechin asked whether journalists did not like his candidacy. “This is not an M&A deal, this is the world's largest economic acquisition deal. Whoever bought it controls it,” said the president of Rosneft.

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The state company Rosneft announced the completion of the takeover of TNK-BP on March 21. Before this, the oil company belonged to the British BP and the Russian consortium AAR (structures of Mikhail Fridman, Leonard Blavatnik and Viktor Vekselberg) on a parity basis.

Rosneft paid BP $16.65 billion for a 50 percent stake in Russia's third-largest oil company and transferred 12.84 percent of its shares. In addition, BP additionally acquired 5.66 percent of Rosneft shares from Rosneftegaz. For the Russian half of TNK-BP shares, AAR received $27.73 billion from Rosneft.

After the completion of the deal with Rosneft, several top managers left TNK-BP, including entrepreneurs German Khan and Viktor Vekselberg.

Sechin personally headed TNK-BP