48% of VKontakte shares sold

The United Capital Partners fund, whose president and managing partner is Ilya Shcherbovich, has agreed to purchase a 48% stake in the VKontakte social network, Bloomberg reported. We are talking about the shares of the co-founders of the network Vyacheslav Mirilashvili (40%) and Lev Leviev (8%). Sources of the agency, referring to the private nature of the information, did not disclose the value of the transaction.

Social network founder and CEO Pavel Durov says he is not notified of the deal

Report Vedomosti: www.vedomosti.ru/companies/news/11258121/ucp_scherbovicha_pokupaet_48_v_kontakte