UPDATE: Usmanov to sell TV assets to former MegaFon CEO Tavrin
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MOSCOW, Dec 13 (PRIME) -- Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov will sell his assets in the television business – a stake in UTV Holding that controls local television channels YU, Muz-TV and Disney – to Ivan Tavrin, a former CEO of mobile operator MegaFon, a representative of Usmanov’s company USM Holdings told PRIME on Wednesday.
“Usmanov is leaving the television business,” the representative said.
Tavrin told PRIME that the deal will be closed soon. “The deal will be closed in the near future after the Federal Antimonopoly Service approves it. I am consolidating 100% in UTV Holding,” he said.
A representative of the service said that it received a corresponding request on December 6.
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