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Russia's VTB buys nationalised agriculture firm
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on December 26, 2024
1 min readLast updated: January 27, 2026
Global Banking & Finance Review®
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on December 26, 2024
1 min readLast updated: January 27, 2026
VTB acquires Agrocomplex Labinski, a nationalised firm in Russia, aiming to enhance efficiency and profitability after corruption charges against its former owners.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's second-largest lender, VTB, has acquired an agricultural company in southern Russia, which was nationalised after its former owners were accused of corruption and fled Russia, the bank said in a statement on Thursday.
The company, now called Agrocomplex Labinski, was nationalised in 2023 after an arrest warrant was issued for its former owner Andrei Korovaiko, and his business partner, Arkady Chebanov. Both businessmen are now living abroad.
VTB said it plans to increase the company's efficiency, streamline its operations, and eventually sell it at a profit. VTB had previously been tasked with streamlining the business of Russia's shipbuilding conglomerate, OSK.
Labinski, which controls assets of the nationalised Pokrovski holding, owns 240,000 hectares of land, producing grains, milk, sugar, and other agricultural products. The company says that it exports up to 400,000 metric tons of grains and oilseeds annually.
(Reporting by Elena Fabrichnaya and Olga Popova, writing by Gleb Bryanski, editing by Alexandra Hudson)
The main topic is VTB's acquisition of the nationalised agricultural firm Agrocomplex Labinski in Russia.
It was nationalised after its former owners were accused of corruption and fled Russia.
VTB plans to increase the company's efficiency, streamline operations, and eventually sell it at a profit.
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