“Foreign” companies want to exclude from the list of those who are eligible for state aid – Investkafe

"Foreign" companies want to exclude from the list of those who are eligible for state aid – Investkafe

State Duma Deputy Vadim Solovyov, head of the government sent to Dmitry Medvedev proposal to exclude companies with foreign shareholders from the list of companies eligible for state aid.
 

Communist Party chief lawyer Vadim Solovyov said that the list of strategic companies that are eligible to receive state aid should not be companies owned by foreign corporations or offshore companies, the newspaper Izvestia. Examples of these include network “Auchan”, “Metro Cash & Carry” and «X5 Retail Group» (trade networks “Crossroads”, “Pyaterochka”), etc. The approved list of strategic Russian organizations Ministry of Economy published in early February. It is 199 organizations, including holdings and vertically integrated companies. Profits of these companies generates more than 70% of the total national income (more than 40 trillion rubles.), And the total number of employees is more than 20% of total employment in the economy. These companies will be able to apply for government guarantees – in the anti-crisis plan has more than 200 billion rubles. on state guarantees on loans and bonds. Each company c an apply for state guarantees no more than 5 billion rubles.

According to Solovyov, about a third of the companies on the list are controlled by foreigners or offshore. In his opinion, such a hit in the list of companies with foreign participation is contrary to government policy provodimoyrossiyskim deofshorizatsii economy, supporting small and medium-sized enterprises, import substitution.

For this reason, the deputy prime minister Solovyov asks to review the list “for the purpose of adjusting, removing from his company with foreign beneficiaries ».