"Vedomosti": Rogozin asks Putin to change the leadership of "Uralvagonzavod"

In September 2016, the deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the military-industrial complex, wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin, in which he expressed dissatisfaction with the work of Uralvagonzavod and his general director Oleg Sienko. This was reported by Vedomosti with reference to their sources.

Rogozin explained the need for personnel changes with the complex financial and economic position of the enterprise and the threat of work on state defense orders. In the same letter, Rogozin proposed to transfer to the company of the Rostec state corporation. Now 100% of the shares of Uralvagonzavod belong to the Federal Property Management Agency.

At the end of the first half of 2016, the net debt of Uralvagonzavod amounted to 276 billion rubles with revenue of 43.1 billion. Uralvagonzavod hoped to attract state guarantees for 16 billion rubles. And get a pre -capitalization from the budget. But the company did not receive either one or the other.

According to the publication, Putin instructed the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Economic Development to work out the proposals of Rogozin. According to the federal official, the question was not initiated by Rostec. The source believes that this is the idea of ​​Rogozin's apparatus.