Polyus Gold shareholders approve 62.95-ruble Jan-Sept dividends
MOSCOW. Dec 29 (Interfax) - The shareholders in OJSC Polyus Gold , more than 95% controlled by Jersey-based Polyus Gold International, Ltd., voted at a Saturday EGM in favor of dividends for January-September 2012 at 62.95 rubles per ordinary share, a company statement says, referencing the preliminary voting results.
Polyus Gold's charter capital is split into 190,627,747 ordinary shares with par value of one ruble. This means the interim dividends will cost the company 12 billion rubles, more than for all of 2011, when the biggest Russian gold-producer paid out 26.23 rubles per share for an overall 5 billion rubles.
The shareholders also elected a board of directors including director for CJSC Polyus legal matters Ivan Bakulev; Artyom Borisanov, deputy general director for strategy and corporate development at CJSC Polyus; Oleg Ignatov, deputy general director for economics and finances at CJSC Polyus; Maria Kirienko, the legal department director at Cyprus-based Nafta Moskva, Ltd.; Anthony James, the Earl of Clanwillion and founding partner at Gardant Communications; Anthony James Nieuwenhuys, the senior operations director at CJSC Polyus; German Pikhoya, Polyus Gold general director; Valery Senko, investments director for the group Onexim; and Anna Solotova, head of the CJSC Polyus division for management activities.
The spouse of Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, Zumrud Rustamova, did not make the list of board-member candidates.
OJSC Polyus Gold works ore and placer deposits in Krasnoyarsk Territory, Irkutsk, Magadan, and Amur Regions, and in Yakutia.
