Prokhorov completely took control of the holding company of RBC

ONEXIM Mikhail Prokhorov has closed a deal to purchase 51.1% of CJSC RBC-TV, Moscow, parent company of RBC holding for 80 million dollars. On this day the newspaper Kommersant deal has already been approved by the Federal Antimonopoly Service, told RBC CEO German Kaplun. The holding company includes RBC newspaper "RBC Daily", RBC TV, the news agency RosBusinessConsulting, the Internet company "media world" and other major shareholders of RBC Information Systems ", the former parent company, are founders of the media holding German Kaplun, Dmitri Belik and Alexander Morgulchik (collectively - 19,85%), UniCredit Bank Austria (16,64%), "Polyus Gold" Mikhail Prokhorov and Suleiman Kerimov (about 11,5%). Capitalizing on June 4 - nearly $ 175 million. The purchase media holding Onexim announced last summer, almost a year left to negotiate with creditors. Investment Director ONEKSIM Vladimir Pakhomov told Kommersant that debt restructuring RBC 220-225 million (depending on the course) have agreed to the creditor banks and more than 97% of the holders of all bonds, namely, it was the main condition from Prokhorov. Pakhomov told Kommersant, RBC will not be integrated into the group JV, bringing together media assets Prokhorov (magazines "snob", "Russian Pioneer and others). "The organizational structure of RBC is very low, the quality of all products - low, and mix of content and advertising enormously complicates the management and creates difficulties in financial accounting. Make of RBC civilized company - an extremely difficult task to squeeze money out of advertising - much easier," - said " Kommersant CEO Business News Media (publishes the newspaper "Vedomosti") Michael Dubik.