The chairman of Lukoil, Russia’s largest private oil company, Vaguit Alekpérov, has resigned this Friday from his position, as reported by the company in a statement. Alekperov, who has chaired Lukoil since 1993, has also left his post on the oil company’s board of directors.
According to the note, Alekpérov owns 3.12% of the oil company’s shares and controls another 5.43% through a family trust fund, among other instruments. The statement does not specify the reasons for the resignation of Alekpérov, considered the largest oil tycoon in this country. Alekperov is the fourth richest man in Russia with about 25,000 million dollars, according to Forbes magazine, although it is not the majority shareholder of Lukoil.
It is his partner, Leonid Fedún, who controls 30.5% of the oil company’s shares. Alekperov was one of the Russian tycoons who openly spoke out against Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine, appearing in favor of the “rapid cessation of the armed conflict” with a resolution thereof “through a process of negotiations”.
Despite his statements, the former president of Lukoil was sanctioned by the United Kingdom precisely because of the current Russian military campaign in Ukraine. Lukoil was the largest Russian oil company until Rosneft received the assets expropriated from Yukos, a company headed by Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Only held a position of political responsibility in the last months of the life of the Soviet Union (1991-92) as Deputy Minister of the Oil Industry. The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has called on the European Union to suspend imports of Russian oil, something that the US has already done.
Source: Lasexta
Mario Twitchell is an accomplished author and journalist, known for his insightful and thought-provoking writing on a wide range of topics including general and opinion. He currently works as a writer at 247 news agency, where he has established himself as a respected voice in the industry.
