On Wednesday, January 10th, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office made an undisguised attempt to disrupt Media Most’s negotiations with media mogul Ted Turner on the sale of a stake in the holding’s NTV Channel.
Published:
12 January 2001 y., Friday
On Wednesday, January 10th, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office made an undisguised attempt to disrupt Media Most’s negotiations with media mogul Ted Turner on the sale of a stake in the holding’s NTV Channel. A search of Media Most’s office was conducted and Most’s chairman questioned the day he was due to attend the negotiations.
Thousands of documents were seized from Andrei Tsymailo’s office, while Tsymailo himself had to spend most of his day in the Prosecutor General’s Office answering investigators’ questions.
Media-Most has released a statement saying that Wednesday’s events were connected to Gazprom’s relentless campaign “to monopolize the process of selecting a respectable Western investor for NTV”. “We…. see a link between the actions taken by the Prosecutor’s Office and Gazprom,” the holding’s statement said.
Andrei Tsymailo arrived for questioning at the General Prosecutor’s Office at 10:00 am on Wednesday. At 5:15 pm the same day he was due to fly to London with a team of the holding’s lawyers and economists for talks with Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, about the sale of NTV shares.
Media Most lawyer Pavel Astakhov said on Wednesday evening that the prosecutors deliberately protracted their questioning of Andrei Tsymailo in order to prevent him from flying to London.
Šaltinis:
gazeta.ru
Copying, publishing, announcing any information from the News.lt portal without written permission of News.lt editorial office is prohibited.
The most popular articles
The use of animals in scientific experiments could soon be reduced by new legislation, approved by the Agriculture Committee on Monday, which strives to strike the right balance between improving animal welfare and assisting research against diseases.
more »
EU holidaymakers travelling by plane or train are protected by a whole range of consumer rights.
more »
The European Commission welcomes the European Parliament voting in favour of a regulation on rights of passengers travelling by sea and by inland waterways.
more »
Mobile phones, computers, TVs - we like them but where do they go when we are finished with them? In the worst case they can be dismantled by hand for scrap by children in developing countries.
more »
Following the death of President Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas, on 28 June Lithuanian Embassies abroad opened the door for people, who want to sign the Condolence Book.
more »
Passengers will enjoy easier access to information about their rights when travelling by rail or air thanks to a Europe-wide publicity campaign in 23 languages launched by the European Commission today.
more »
Lithuania has been grieved by the heartbreaking news about the decease of Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas, former President, Prime Minister, Signatory to the Act of Independence, and the first Head of State of Lithuania after the Restoration of Independence.
more »
We have lost a warm person and a prominent politician who had been at the wheel of state at challenging and difficult stages in the history of Lithuania.
more »
Europe's financial and economic crisis is increasingly becoming a social crisis too, and is testing European solidarity to the limit.
more »
In a move to enforce a style of dress they believe is in accordance with sharia law, the authorities in the Muslim Indonesian province of West Aceh are handing out long skirts to women wearing tight pants.
more »