Native name | АО АФК Система |
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Company type | Public (OAO) |
Industry | Conglomerate |
Founded | 1993 |
Headquarters | Moscow , Russia |
Key people | |
Products | |
Revenue | $12.3 billion [1] (2023) |
$1.37 billion [1] (2023) | |
−$62.4 million [1] (2023) | |
Total assets | $27.7 billion [1] (2023) |
Total equity | $1.74 billion [1] (2023) |
Number of employees | 70,000 |
Subsidiaries | |
Website | www |
AFK Sistema PAO is a large Russian conglomerate company, founded by Vladimir Yevtushenkov, who was chairman of the corporation's board of directors until 2022. In April, Yevtushenkov's shareholding in Sistema has decreased to 49.2%, and he also stepped down from Sistema's board. [2] [3]
Sistema has its headquarters in Moscow. The company's global depository receipts (GDRs) traded on the London Stock Exchange from 2005 until delisting in May 2023. [4] It has been under US sanctions since November 2023. [5]
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In 1993, [6] Evgeny Novitsky and Vladimir Yevtushenkov founded the holding company AFK Sistema, also known as Sistema JSFC, to group together several information technology (IT) and cell phone companies including MTS. [7] [8] [9] [10] [a]
Sistema operates a number of consumer service businesses in the areas of:
In November 2021, “Sistema” was included in “Khabarovsky Project” (in Khabarovsk Krai) for pilot production of green hydrogen with projected 350 thousand tons per year, according to Ministry of Industry and Trade (Russia). [22]
In February 2005, AFK Sistema owned a 49% stake in East-West United Bank (Luxembourg), which was established in June 1974 as a "daughter" bank of the Central Bank of Russia and is one of the five Russian foreign banks of the VTB network. [23] [24] [25] [26] [b] In 2018, Sistema held a 100% stake in East-West United Bank (EWUB) with Sergei Pchelintsev (Russian : Сергей Алексеевич Пчелинцев) as the CEO. [35] [36] In 2021, the company's revenue amounted to 24 billion rubles. [37]
Following the February and March 2022 sanctions issued against VTB and its subsidiaries which include the former daughter banks of the Soviet Union's State Bank Gosbank and later the Central Bank of Russia, EWUB in Luxembourg has become the principal Russian overseas bank in Europe after Gazprombank ceased operations in the region. [38] [39] As of the end of March 2022, the Vladimir Yevtushenkov (Russian : Владимир Петрович Евтушенков) controlled Sistema and its subsidiary East-West United Bank (EWUB) in Luxembourg have not been sanctioned due to Russian invasion of Ukraine. [38] [40] [41] He is no longer controls Sistema after reducing his stake in the Corporation below control (49.2%), and voluntary resignation from its board of directors in April 2022. [42] [43]
According to Arnold Tamm (Spivakovsky), [c] both the Peking Hotel at Bol'shaya Sadovaya Ulitsa, 5 in Moscow, where Oleg Kuznetsov (Russian : Олег Кузнецов) was the administrator from 2002 to 2016, and the Cosmos Hotel at 150 Mira Avenue in Moscow, are owned by Sistema. [46]
Until July 2021 [20] AFK Sistema PAO had an aerospace and defence subsidiary, Kronstadt Group, which was acquired in 2015 and developed unmanned aerial vehicles, and flight simulators. AFK Sistema no longer controls any assets related to the defense industry. [20]
In 2014, 72% of Sistema's interest in Bashneft was seized by the Russian government. [56] [57]
On May 3, 2017, Sistema shares plunged about 37% following a $1.9 billion lawsuit filed by Rosneft. [58]
On 15 May 2017, the Arbitration Court of Bashkortostan registered a RUB 106.6bn claim filed by Rosneft and Bashneft against Sistema, a preliminary hearing of the case was scheduled for 6 June, Irina Nurislamova was appointed as a judge for the case. [59] [60]
In December 2017, AFK Sistema reached an amicable agreement with Rosneft and agreed to pay out 100 billion roubles ($1.7 billion) to resolve the dispute. [61]
According to a declaration given on 18 October 2018 in Spanish court by Sergey Dozhdev (Russian : Сергей Дождев), Igor Sechin uses his offshore companies to control Sistema through MTS and Bashneft. [46] [51] [d]
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On 27 June 2020, Etienne Schneider became an independent director of Sistema at which his close political friend Jeannot Krecké had been a director at Sistema since May 2012. [8] [26] Positions they resigned in February 2022.
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