The ownership of Gunvor cannot be ascertained, as it is a privately-owned company. It is said that its two founders hold an equal number of shares, with the balance being held in an employee benefit trust for senior management [15].
Following the major Wikileaks release of US State Department cables in November 2010, it was reported by the London Daily Telegraph[16] that the wealth of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is linked to a "secretive Swiss-based oil trading firm" called Gunvor. It said that John Beyrle, the United States Ambassador to the Russian Federation stated that close connections exist between Gunvor and the Russian Government and that he reported: "its secretive ownership is rumoured to include prime minister Putin." The newspaper goes on to report that Gunvor has, however, totally refuted the existence of any links between it and Mr Putin. Gunvor stated in response to the Wikileak disclosure that Timchenko and Tornqvist owned "a large majority of Gunvor" and that a "minority stake is owned by an employee benefit trust". It went on to say that "the company had taken out credit facilities which require full disclosure of company ownership"[17].
According to former Chairman of the Russian State Duma Ivan Rybkin,[18][19] and Russian political scientist Stanislav Belkovsky,[20][21] who's affiliated with Boris Berezovsky (Russian oligarch-in-exile and a political opponent of Putin), Putin controls (among other investments) 50% in Gunvor, run by Gennady Timchenko, a close friend.[22][23]
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