Mail.ru co-owners allowed to buy the holding Astrum Online
Federal Antimonopoly Service has allowed structures to the South African company Naspers, which already owns 42.9 percent of the Russian portal Mail.ru, buy the game holding Astrum Online Entertainment. It writes Kommersant.
In the FAS noted that while it is only intentions. Companies Naspers, in particular, have yet to decide whether they will buy it 100 per cent holding, or obmezhatsya 38 percent.
Seller in the operation, the amount which analysts estimate at 200 million dollars, the fund supports Digital Sky Technologies (DST) and Gregory George Milnera Finhera. He is owned by a controlling Mail.ru - 53,2 percent of the company.
Publications from exile to a source close to the transaction, writes that the purchase of Astrum Online followed the merger of the holding game portal Mail.ru. Payment in the merger will be held as cash and shares. As if that rozpodilyatsya fate of Naspers and DST, is unknown.
