Bell Inc: the owner Avito Holding AB tries to avoid sales service of VKontakte

The owner of the Russian service of online announcements Avito Holding AB — the Netherlands investment company of Prosus N. V (enters into the South African investment holding of Naspers Ltd) actively looks for buyers on the asset. Thus Prosus N. V try to avoid the transaction from VKontakte, writes Bell Inc with reference to six sources. The transaction from VKontakte support in Presidential Administration, reports the edition, and Prosus N. V try to find another, farther from the state, the buyer. According to one of sources, Prosus N. V originally wanted to sell an asset much more expensively — for $4 billion (about 213 billion rubles). VKontakte for the transaction estimate Avito Holding AB at 65-80 billion rub...