Forbes: Volozh offered Kudrin 5% of Yandex

If the chairman of the Accounts Chamber, Alexei Kudrin, moves to Yandex and helps in the division of assets, the founder of the company, Arkady Volozh, will transfer 5% of the company to the official through options. Sources said this Forbesspecifying that Alexei Kudrin also wants to get 51% of the voting shares.

“As part of the division of assets, the founder of Yandex, Arkady Volozh, plans to separate the business of unmanned vehicles into a separate legal entity and develop it abroad, the rest of the assets will have to remain in Russia,” Forbes cites the terms of a potential deal. Their gentlemen Kudrin and Volozh discussed in Tel Aviv. According to the publication, the head of the Accounts Chamber promised the founder of Yandex to help with the division of assets.

September 16 Meduza (recognized as a foreign media agent), citing its sources informedthat Alexei Kudrin asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to join the board of directors of Yandex, and the head of state approved this request. Subsequently, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied this information.

Andrey Sapozhnikov