28 Sep 2012 15:08

VTB expects to co-finance potential Rosneft share buy in BP

YALTA. Sept 28 (Interfax) - VTB expects to co-finance a potential deal for Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft to buy shares in BP, the bank's chief, Andrei Kostin, said on the sidelines of the CIS investment and business forum in Yalta.

"We have good relations with Rosneft. If the deal goes ahead then I hope they'll involve us," he said, adding that nobody had yet approached VTB with a view to funding any such deal.