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ALROSA supervisory board to hold meeting on dividend payments for 2023

09 april 2024

The supervisory board of the Russian diamond mining company ALROSA will hold a meeting on April 12 at which it will consider the distribution of dividends for 2023, TASS reports citing the company's representatives.

Also on the meeting agenda are questions about the preliminary approval of the annual report, the approval of the list of candidates for voting for elections to the company’s supervisory board and the convening of the annual meeting of shareholders.

Based on the results of the first half of 2023, the company paid dividends in the amount of 3.77 rubles per share. ALROSA’s profit according to IFRS amounted to 85.1 billion rubles in 2023.

Earlier, an informed source familiar with the company told Rough&Polished that the Gokhran of Russia has been purchasing diamonds from ALROSA since the beginning of 2024. According to him, the corresponding agreement between the diamond miner and the Russian Ministry of Finance was reached in December last year due to sanctions imposed by the EU and the Group of Seven (G7) countries against Russian diamonds.

Theodor Lisovoy, Editor in Chief of the European bureau, Rough&Polished