Former Mobily chairman cuts stake to 5.5 mln shares

26/02/2015 Argaam

Former chairman of Etihad Etisalat Co. (Mobily), Abdulaziz Al-Saghyir, drastically cut his stake in the company from 15 million shares to 5.5 million in 2014, according to a board report.

 

Earlier this month, Mobily, Saudi Arabia’s second-largest telecom operator, said chairman Al-Saghyir resigned for “health” reasons, according to data compiled by Argaam. However, he remained on the company’s board.

Suliman bin Abdulrahman al-Gwaiz, the governor of the state-owned General Organization for Social Insurance fund (GOSI), was named as the new chairman.

Most of the teleco’s other holdings saw no major changes. Former chief executive Khalid Al-Kaf maintained his equity of 308,000 shares until Dec. 31, 2014.

Al-Kaf was sacked on Wednesday on the back of an accounting probe into Mobily’s 2014 financial statements.

The company recently reported that it lost a staggering SAR 913 million in fiscal year 2014. In its unaudited preliminary financials, it reported a net profit of SAR 220 million, compared to SAR 5,937 million for the previous fiscal year 2013.

Al-Saghyir’s Ownership since 2008 (shares in thousands)

Change

Number of shares

Year

--

17,047

2008

--

17,423

2009

--

17,423

2010

( 124 )

17,299

2011

( 139 )

17,160

2012

( 2,129 )

15,031

2013

( 9,490 )

5,541

2014

 

Al-Saghyir’s Shares in Detail

Change

Number of shares by end of 2014

Number of shares beginning of 2014

Items

--

230

230

Al-Saghyir’s direct ownership

( 9,490 )

5,310

14,800

Indirect ownership under the name of Al-Saghyir’s investment company

--

1

1

Indirect ownership under the name of  Al-Saghyir’s next-of-kin

( 9,490 )

5,541

15,031

Total

 

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