Konstantin Bakharev, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Financial Market Committee said The newspaper “Vedomosti” about the authorities’ plans to ban the trading of shares of foreign companies of the military-industrial complex (OPK), which supplies weapons to Ukraine, on the Russian stock exchanges.
For example, we are talking about papers such as Raytheon Technologies (produces Javelin and Stinger anti-tank guns) and Lockheed Martin (HIMARS missile systems), continuing from the article. According to the deputy, investors made more than 10 thousand and more than 3 thousand transactions with the shares of the first company. – second.
Bakharev described this situation as unacceptable and absolutely immoral. According to him, brokers get a percentage, companies get capitalization. At the same time, investors make money, but “Russian soldiers are killed” from the weapons of defense industry companies that supply weapons to Kiev. According to the preliminary analysis of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, the legislation no longer includes the power of state bodies to stop trading foreign shares on such grounds.
The authorities are considering a decree of the President of the Russian Federation, as stated by the deputy, as a legal instrument for the introduction of a legal ban.
The article says that the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation confirmed the work of the legal mechanism to the newspaper.