PRESS DIGEST - RUSSIA - April 9
MOSCOW, April 9 (Reuters) - The following are some stories in Russia's newspapers on Monday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
VEDOMOSTI
www.vedomosti.ru
- Russian telecoms holding VEON is selling its business in Tajikistan to co-investor ZET Mobile Limited after the government hit it with back tax claims. Veon is not the only telecoms company that has faced problems in Central Asia recently, the daily reports.
KOMMERSANT
www.kommersant.ru
- Creditors of Russia's Far-Eastern Shipping Company are threatening it with bankruptcy lawsuits after its main shareholder, Ziyavudin Magomedov, the owner of Summa Group, was detained and accused of fraud.
RBC
www.rbc
- Russia's Alfa Bank has become the first private bank to say it's ready to transfer its portfolio of defence industry loans of around 28 billion roubles ($481.71 million) to a new bank being set up on the basis of Promsvyazbank to handle such loans, the newspaper writes.
($1 = 58.1266 roubles) (Reporting by Margarita Popova Editing by Andrew Osborn)
