Rosneft decided to introduce new restrictions for minorityans

Rosneft proposed changing the procedure for accessing public companies, even more limiting the rights of their minority shareholders. It is reported by Interfax with reference to unnamed sources.

According to the agency, the relevant provisions are contained in the comments that Rosneft prepared for the bill of the Ministry of Justice on information rights of shareholders of public companies. In particular, it is about the fact that additional information, for example, to agreements on major transactions, may be allowed by shareholders with a shares of more than 1%. Now even the owners of the same promotion can request these documents.

Rosneft’s owners of a package of a package of 25% of the shares of Rosneft offers to give full access to the documents of a public company (as now ), the rest of the shareholders - only to the documents disclosed.

In addition, Rosneft considers it possible to expand the list of grounds for refusing access to documents. It is proposed to include the case when the requested document contains commercially sensitive information, or there is reason to believe that the person requesting the document can use information to the detriment of the company.

A well -known example of the struggle of minority sorts for the right to access the information of a large public company is the activities of opposition Alexei Navalny - a minority shareholder of several state -owned companies, including Rosneft and Transneft. In the early 2010s, Navalny through the court achieved access to copies of the minutes of the Board of Directors of Transneft, but the court did not satisfy a similar claim for Rosneft.

According to Navalny himself, he owns 345 Rosneft shares. At the end of January 2017, this package was estimated at about 137 thousand rubles with the total capitalization of Rosneft on the Moscow Exchange about 4.2 trillion rubles.

After 19.5% of Rosneft shares were privatized in December 2016, the state remained at the disposal of 50% plus 2.5 of the company's shares, the Singaporean QHG Shares became the owner of a privatized package. Another 19.75% of Rosneft shares - at the British BP, for other shareholders - 10.75%.