Russia Hands Seized Danone, Carlsberg Assets to Putin Allies
- Yakub Zakriev appointed at Danone Russia, Bolloyev at Baltika
- Russia took control of the assets in a decree issued Sunday
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Russia named a relative of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and an ally of President Vladimir Putin to head the seized local operations of France’s Danone SA and Denmark’s Carlsberg A/S.
Yakub Zakriev, 32, who’s Chechnya’s agriculture minister, is now listed as general director of Danone Russia, according to the official Spark-Interfax disclosure service. He’s a nephew of Kadyrov, the Chechen ruler who’s a protege of Putin and who has been repeatedly accused of human rights violations in the southern Russian republic.