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Mail.ru Group, which became the sole owner of “VKontakte”, is not going to get the rights to messenger Telergam Paul Durov. Closing a deal to buy Mail.ru Group from UCP 48% “VKontakte”, the parties withdrew all previously filed lawsuits: messenger was the subject of several lawsuits.
Telegram personal project will be one of the founders of “VKontakte” Pavel Durov. All disputes to UCP for this project, he stopped, he returned all company said RBC, a source close to the deal.
Sam Durov, commenting on the purchase of 48% of Mail.ru Group “VKontakte” the fund UCP, said, that welcomes the decision of the former partners to abandon any claim to its current project Telegram. “For my part, I admit that I rented a claim to UCP and congratulate all those who took part in the conflict,” – listed in the press release, the words of Mail.ru Group Durov.
«Everyone got what like. UCP for it was a good investment. Durov will focus on the project Telegram, all mutual claims withdrawn “- said RBC source close to the UCP.
After the release of messenger Telegram in August 2013 Fund UCP, which in the spring of last year, 48% belonged to the” VKontakte “Durov accused that he was on the money” VKontakte “creates a service that competes with the sotssetyu. In April 2014, the Fund announced that it considers part of the Telegram “VKontakte” and therefore purchased from the American partner Durov Axel Neff three companies operating business Telegram, among them – Telegram LLC, which were registered trade mark of the messenger and the application in the AppStore. In response Durov said that “the fund illegally gained access to American companies that own the trademarks Telegram and Telegraph in the United States».
In April 2014 UCP filed lawsuits to Durov and Mail.ru Group Alisher Usmanov (by the time she became the owner of 52% of “VKontakte”), requiring the transfer of ownership Telegram “VKontakte”. Durov later filed a counterclaim in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to fund UCP, led by Ilya Scherbovich Fund, its partners Victoria Lazareva and Yuri Kachuro, as well as his former partners in a social network “VKontakte” Ilya Perekopsky and Axel Neff. Durov accused them of fraud and extortion in his messenger Telegram.
Over 48% of “VKontakte” UCP fund will receive $ 1.47 billion in cash.
Daria Lugano
September 16, 2014
RBC
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