VTB YET TO PROVIDE REGULATOR WITH FURTHER INFO ON POLYUS SHARE DEAL

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VTB has not yet provided the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) with further information on a transaction involving shares in Polyus Gold, Russia's biggest gold producer. "They haven't given us anything yet," FAS chief Igor Artemiyev told reporters on February 17.A source familiar with VTB's plans has said VTB did not plan to submit further information to the FAS. The FAS is about to turn down a request by the VTB to buy shares in Polyus Gold, Alexei Ulyanov, the FAS official in charge of industry monitoring, said on February 11. Ulyanov said VTB wanted to buy up to 50 percent of the shares in Polyus Gold. He said the request would be rejected because VTB did not say who it was buying the stake from.