One of Vladimir Putin’s closest friends, billionaire Arkadi Rotenberg, has become the owner of “Domodedovo” airport — the largest private air gateway in Russia, which authorities confiscated last year from former owner Dmitri Kamenski and nationalized.
According to information published by RBC, as a result of the auction on January 29, Domodedovo airport was sold to the company OOO “Perspectiva” — a subsidiary 100% owned by the international airport Sheremetyevo Airport. Sheremetyevo, in turn, is 30% state-owned and 66% owned by the Cypriot trust TPS Avia Holding (re-registered in 2022 in the Russian offshore on Russki Island).
Rotenberg owns 34% of the trust’s shares, and the rest is divided between the families of Alexandr Ponomarenko and Alexandr Skorobogatko.
The final price of the transaction was 66.132 billion rubles (approx. 720 million €), which is exactly half of the starting price of the auction of 132 billion rubles (approx. 1.44 billion €). The only other participant in the auction, apart from the company related to Rotenberg, was a structure of the airport Vnukovo Airport, owned by businessman Vitali Vantcev.
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