Warnig leaves Bank Rossiya board of directors
MOSCOW. June 22 (Interfax) - Matthias Warnig, who turns 60 next month, has left the board of directors of Bank Rossiya , which is controlled by Yury Kovalchuk and his business partners.
Shareholders elected the new board of directors at a meeting on June 19, Bank Rossiya, which was targeted by U.S. sanctions in March 2014, said in materials. There were two changes in membership: Dmitry Mansurov, who replaced Oleg Minaev (currently CEO of Sobinbank) as general director of CJSC ABR Management last year, has now replaced Minaev on the bank's board; Warnig's replacement on the board is Alexander Germanov, who had been the bank's deputy CEO for security and is now chairman of the board of Sobinbank.
The other incumbents were reelected: Dmitry Lebedev, Mikhail Klishin, Yevgeny Logovinsky, Kirill Seleznev, Vladislav Barankov and Vladimir Lukin.
Warnig is much in demand among Russian companies looking for foreign-born directors: he is chairman of the boards of Transneft and UC Rusal , and holds seats on the boards of directors of VTB and Rosneft . He has served on the Bank Rossiya board for 12 years.
ABR Management, which received the stakes held by Kovalchuk (39.8% of voting shares), Nikolai Shamalov (10.2%) and Mikail Shelomov's Platinum (2.27%), holds a controlling stake in Bank Rossiya. Gennady Timchenko's Transoil CIS LLC has 9.06% and Alexei Mordashov owns 5.8% of votes via Severgroup. The co-owners of Finservice Bank, Ivan Mironov and Tatyana Svitova own a combined 14.2% of shares.