As the telegram channel of the VChK OGPU warned, Rusnano, on the eve of bankruptcy, is beginning to enter into rather strange deals. As Rucriminal.info found out, by the end of the year, a 30.76% stake in Novomet, owned by Rusnano, will be sold for an amount slightly exceeding 5 billion rubles. At the same time, Rusnano invested 3.968 billion rubles in the company in 2011.
Novomet is one of the flagships of the domestic mechanical engineering industry, the company's main products are electric centrifugal submersible pumping units - one of the best on the world market in terms of reliability and energy consumption, especially when extracting oil from complex fields and offshore. The company has good dynamics in both sales and profit (at the end of 2022 + 18%), with about half of the revenue coming from the foreign market, the company has more than 20 production bases in the near and far abroad.
In 2017, Rusnano put up its stake for auction for 7.5 billion rubles. Later, other shareholders joined the competition. The winner of the competition, the American company Haliburton, put out an offer to acquire 100% of the company for 45 billion rubles. Unfortunately for the shareholders, the deal with the Americans was blocked by the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service.
Later, RDIF tried to buy out Rusnano’s stake in Novomet in a consortium with Saudi Aramco, Lukoil, TMK (ChTPZ), GE, and the company’s management. In all cases, trading began at 7.5 billion rubles; Rusnano also planned to receive a bonus if a strategic investor entered Novomet (with a share of more than 50%) or the company entered an IPO within five years after the transaction. The bonus amount is half the difference between the sale price of shares now and in the future.
In 2022, Sergei Kulikov (the current head of Rusnano) already tried to sell a stake in Novomet to the structures of the Orthodox oligarch Malofeev, but the owner of Tsargrad was not ready to pay the market value, and Kulikov could not find grounds for selling for next to nothing.
Now - a second attempt with an ironclad justification: “Rusnano urgently needs money and Chubais is to blame for this.”
Timofey Grishin
Source: www.rucriminal.info
