one day, June 4, as the primary owner of MMC “Norilsk Nickel” Vladimir Potanin declined by $1.5 billion. this is evidenced by the counter Forbes Real Time tracking of the status of dollar billionaires in real time.
After the fall of the state Potanin is 25.2 billion and still allows him to be considered as the Russia’s richest man.
such losses Vladimir Potanin was among the three most impoverished of the day billionaires. More than he has lost since the beginning of the day, a Chinese businessman Qing Inline (minus $7.5 billion), in third place — mark Zuckerberg (minus $926 million).
on Thursday the company’s shares lost more than 8% to the previous close and as of 16:15 GMT traded at 20 032 rubles per share. So investors reacted to new details about the accident that occurred may 29 at TPP-3 under the Norilsk. Then due sagging of the supports of one of the tanks leaked more than 21,000 cubic metres of diesel fuel. The owner of the CHP plant “Norilsk-Taimyr energy company” (NTEC), a division of “Norilsk Nickel”.
the Spilled fuel got into the soil, into the river Barn, which provides water to residents of the Norilsk district, Kayerkan, as well as in the lake Pyasino under the Norilsk river and the Pyasina river, which flows into the Kara sea.
the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on 3 June he supported the decision to enter Norilsk, a state of emergency of the Federal character. In the process of liquidation of the accident involved NTEC, according to the website of Norilsk Nickel.
“the Situation is somewhat more serious than in 2016 and 2018, when the local river has turned red due discharge of pollutants from “Norilsk Nickel” — said in a morning survey of analysts “Aton”. They recall that the company got off with a nominal fine of less than $1,000, and also spent several million dollars on liquidation of consequences of pollution.
At a meeting with President Vladimir Putin on 3 June, the Minister of emergency situations Evgeny Senichev noted that the Ministry found out about the accident only after two days after it happened. Norilsk Nickel insists that information in the bodies of MOE was transferred in a timely manner. One of the deputies of the state Duma, United Russia Alexander Jakubowski wrote a request to the head of the RCDS Alexander Bastrykin with a proposal to take measures to “suspension responsible for the actions or inaction” on the subject, including Vladimir Potanin, to conduct an objective investigation of the accident, according to RBC.
