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The sale of Vedomosti has been completed
Updated. Ivan Eremin, the founder and CEO of FederalPress, became the owner of the newspaper, while Konstantin Zyatkov withdrew from the deal. It is reported by TASS.
The sale of the Vedomosti newspaper (Business News Media JSC) took place, the deal was registered, and now the newspaper's publisher belongs to Support JSC. Gleb Prozorov, CEO of Business News Media JSC, told Meduza about this.
that the deal would be closed in the coming days . wrote The day before, on May 28, Vedomosti itself
According to the interlocutors of the publication, JSC "Support" is controlled by the founder of "FederalPress" Ivan Eremin and the publisher of the newspaper "Version" Konstantin Zyatkov.
Yeremin is one of the founders of the news site Uralpolit.ru, and he launched it with his now ex-wife Aksana Panova, founder of Ura.ru and Znak.com. Now Eremin manages the FederalPress media holding and, according to his friend , pays a lot of attention to cooperation with officials.
Addition. After the news about the completion of the transaction, the editors of Vedomosti published a text in the Opinions section with the heading "Closing for special maintenance." As stated in the publication, the transaction removes the risk of bankruptcy of the publication.
“Vedomosti will live on - the questions remain unanswered, for what and in what form,” the authors write. - The appearance in the shareholders of Vedomosti of a person who manages the Federalpress agency, which, according to the public procurement website, actively cooperates with the authorities and individual state institutions and is engaged in “preparing and publishing materials in the interests of the customer”, cannot but disturb us. It cannot be ruled out that the new owner will try to apply the business model he is accustomed to at the new location.”
- Previously, Vedomosti owned Arkan Investment by Demyan Kudryavtsev, Vladimir Voronov and Martin Pompadour. In March, it became known that they had tentatively agreed to sell the publication to Zyatkov and Aleksey Golubovich, Managing Director of Arbat Capital. Golubovich later pulled out of the deal.
- In mid-May , it turned out that in 2017 Arkan Investment had taken a loan of 28 million euros from the RRDB through an intermediary company. More than 70% of the shares of this bank belong to the structures of Rosneft.
- Kudryavtsev later confirmed this information, but he claimed that the money went not to Vedomosti, but to the purchase of other media assets, and the debt was paid off several months ago.