PRIME-TASS. An annual general meeting held by the shareholders of Tyumen-based Sibneftebank decided Friday to pay out 2008 dividends of Rub 1.75 per preferred share with Rub 1.00 per value and approved no dividends on commons, the bank told the news agency.
The lending institution’s 2007 dividend payouts equaled Rub 0.145 per common and Rub 1.75 per preferred shares. All in all, a total of Rub 142,439.00 is to be allocated to dividend payouts. The lenders 2008 balance sheet profit amounted to Rub 163.50 mln and net profit came to Rub 101.60 mln.
The AGM elected seven new members to the board: deputy head of the Property Relations Department of the Tyumen region Natalia Gradoboyeva, general director of the Russian Investment Institute for the Fuel and Energy Complex (Moscow) Irina Dontseva, rector of the Tyumen Oil & Gas University Nikolay Karnaukhov, president of the Tyumen Oil & Gas University Yury Konev, deputy general director of Nedra Stanislav Rakul, deputy general director of Siberian Oil Corporation (Tyumen) Larisa Tentser and Siberian Oil Corporation general director Sergey Shafranik. Nikolay Karnaukhov was elected to act as board chairman.
As of January 1, 2009 the lending institutions charter capital equaled Rub 147.45 mln and is divided in 147,369,000 common and 81,394 preferred non-documentary shares (with fixed dividends of 175%), with Rub 1.00 par value each. In 2008 Sibneftebanks equity jumped from Rub 553.9 mln to Rub 677.8 mln. As of January 1, 2009 the lenders assets stood at Rub 4.13 bln vs. Rub 4.83 bln a year earlier.