In 2014, the Ukrainian telecom company Datagroup had to sell for next to nothing its own fiber-optic network in the Crimea to a local company Miranda Media.
According to Ekonomicheskaya pravda (Economic truth), it was stated by Maxim Smelyanets, the CEO of Datagroup, during his meeting with journalists on July 7. At the same time he refused to make public the selling price of the network.
Smelyanets only emphasized that it was extremely low, and that the Russian mass media exaggerated it in dozens of times, while releasing that information in 2014.
As known, in May 2014, the Russian edition Vedomosti published information that Miranda Media, the Rostelecom’s offshoot, spent USD 30 million on purchasing the Crimean networks (including the Datagroup’s one).
Datagroup was forced to bargain away its Crimean network in favor of the Rostelecom’s offshoot
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