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The head of the State Duma Committee on Communications and IT, Aleksandr Khinshtein, asked the FAS to block the sale of 60% of the shares of the Bashkir communications operator Ufanet, and the Prosecutor General's Office to initiate a lawsuit to recover them in favor of the state. This was reported by Kommersant, which obtained the corresponding appeal from the deputy to the head of the FAS, Maxim Shaskolsky, dated May 23.

y shareholders Marat Akhmetshin and Marat Fattakhov are planning to sell their controlling stake and have already filed a petition with the FAS to approve the deal. In his opinion, the s vietnam whatsapp resource ale of shares could entail "negative consequences for Russian authorities and cause significant damage to the rights and legitimate interests of citizens." He also recalled that Ufanet has FSB and FSTEC licenses in the field of encryption, cryptography, and information security, so the company "is of strategic importance."

In a conversation with Kommersant, Khinshtein confirmed that he had indeed sent an appeal to the FAS, “in order, firstly, not to give consent to the conclusion of the transaction, and secondly, together with the prosecutor’s office, to initiate the procedure for nationalizing the block of shares.”

In addition, at the end of April, the deputy asked Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov to file a lawsuit to recover Akhmetshin's and Fattakhov's shares in Ufanet in favor of the state. Khinshtein noted that the owners of about 60% of the company have dual citizenship - Austria and Cyprus. According to him, in this way the businessmen violate the law, according to which enterprises of strategic importance cannot be under foreign control without the consent of the state.

In a conversation with Kommersant, Akhmetshin assured that he had not filed any applications to the FAS to sell the company: "I am always ready to sell if they offer a decent price, but that did not happen. The last time Artur Khazigaleev contacted me was a few days before his arrest and offered to buy out the stake for 500 million rubles." Bakhtiyarov also told the newspaper that he was "not aware of a possible change in shareholders."

JSC Ufanet was founded in 2005. The company provides fixed Internet, cable TV and video surveillance services in seven regions of Russia. According to the results of 2023, the provider's revenue amounted to 9.1 billion, and net profit - 866 million rubles.

According to FG Finam analyst Leonid Delitsyn, 60% of Ufanet could be worth around 6 billion rubles based on a multiplier of 11 to net profit. Kommersant's source in the industry indicated that the company is the largest independent communications provider for Bashkiria and a number of neighboring regions, so "its value could be equal to its turnover."

Over the past year, the Prosecutor General's Office has repeatedly initiated lawsuits to transfer private companies to state ownership in connection with illegal privatization. President Vladimir Putin has emphasized that there is no talk of deprivatization or nationalization of the economy. At the end of March, he said that the work of prosecutors in this area is justified in cases where "assets were acquired in circumvention, in violation of the law, and, moreover, are used to the detriment of the state."

At the RSPP congress in late April, the president once again emphasized that the seizure of enterprises occurs only when the country's security is damaged. "We are not talking about revising privatization, but about cases when the actions or inactions of the owners of property complexes directly damage the country's security and national interests," he said. According to the head of state, the seizure of businesses is justified only in such a situation.