July 3, 2013. The Federal Financial Markets Service (FSFR) registered a case when insider information was used unlawfully by one of Concern Kalina’s top managers; the information had to do with the company’s shares. The service is going to forward these files to the law-enforcement authorities in the nearest future, Head of the FSFR Dmitri Pankin’s blog states.

‘In the fall of 2011, many of the stock market players, the media, and the business community representatives noticed that Concern Kalina’s shares went up; this was just before Unilever RUS bought a controlling shareholding in the business on behalf of Unilever. I was often asked questions at that time as to whether some insider information might have been used unlawfully in the process of purchasing the shares. Our service started investigating then,’ Pankin says.

The FSFR asked to see quite a few documents, and got and looked into data on more than 300 private individuals and 50 legal entities involved in the preparation for the deal on the purchase of Kalina’s controlling shareholding by Unilever RUS.