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Russian billionaires sold shares in Alpha for the sake of lifting sanctions
Russian billionaires Mikhail Friedman and Peter Aven sold their shares in Alfa-Bank and Alfa-Strauns, trying to achieve the abolition of restrictions introduced against them. This was written by the newspaper Financial Times, referring to the financial documentation.
The publication writes that the sale transaction, opened back in 2023, was closed until the end of 2024. As a result of Aven and Friedman, which together owned packages of 45% of the bank’s shares and 42% of the papers of the insurance company, sold them to their longtime partner Andrei Kosogov. FT notes that at the time of the transaction, both companies were estimated at about 240 billion rubles.
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According to the publication, Russian billionaires sold their shares in Alpha in the hope that this will help to achieve the removal of the European Union sanctions from them, which were introduced after the start of a full -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Last year, the European Court of General Jurisdiction partially annulled the justification of restrictions introduced against Aven and Friedman. So the court did not see sufficient evidence that billionaires were involved in the invasion of Ukraine.
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Nevertheless, restrictions against entrepreneurs remained in force under a separate justification, which indicates the status of Friedman and Aven as “leading businessmen [...] employed in the economy sector that brings a significant income,” said anitta Hipper EU in Foreign Affairs.
“Restrictive measures against Peter Aven and Mikhail Friedman are in force - they were extended on the basis of the decision of the Council in September 2023 and March 2024,” she said.
After the purchase of the shares of Herman Khan and Alexei Kuzmichev, and then Friedman and Aven, Andrei Kosogov, against which no sanctions were introduced against the Western countries, became the largest shareholder of Alfa Bank and Letterone.
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