Moscow Times 4 April 2012
A1, the investment arm of billionaire Mikhail Fridman’s Alfa-Group, is seeking a loan to bid for Russia’s biggest airport Domodedovo, the investment company said on Tuesday.
A bid could be around $3 billion, according to Russian business daily Vedomosti, which earlier reported the news, and would rival a bid from another privately owned investment group, Summa Group, the paper said.
“We can say only that A1 sent to VEB a request for loan to buy Domodedovo,” a representative for A1 said in an email, referring to Russian state development bank VEB.