Peskov: on RBC they do not provide pressure

Today, May 12, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that Vladimir Putin has recently been found with the owner of the RBC holding Mikhail Prokhorov and there is no pressure on the holding of RBC.

“I do not know anything about such a meeting, and, most likely, there was no such meeting,” Peskov quotes Interfax quoted.

The presidential spokesman also commented on reports on investigative actions in relation to the company whose shareholders were previously associated with RBC: “I would not in any way linish this with pressure on RBC. Actually no pressure is "

“If investigative actions are performed in relation to some companies, then the issues should be addressed to those ministries or investigating authorities that perform these investigative actions,” Peskov added.

On May 11, the news portal Rambler News Service said that on April 29, the Main Investigative Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow opened the case of fraud on the statement of Alexander Panov, the former shareholder of Bait-Telecom, which belonged to RBC, about the deprivation of it and Yaroslava of the Caretskiy 25% of $ 13.4 million. It was reported that it was reported that it was reported that it was reported that it was reported that In connection with this case, law enforcement agencies will be checked by RBC.

According to the press secretary of RBC Egor Timofeev, “RBC lawyers are studying the possibility of filing a claim for Rambler News Service and Alexander Panov in connection with the publication of unverified and inaccurate information that defeated the business reputation of a group of companies and its employees.”

Timofeev noted that Panov already allowed himself public statements to RBC on this issue, after which the holding appealed to the court, which recognized these statements not true.

In turn, the official representative of Rambler and Co Sofya Ivanova said that "all theses set forth in the Rambler News Service material were confirmed by the relevant documents and public comments of representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs."