Businessman Sergey Galitskiy said last week he had stood down as CEO at Magnit and sold most of his stake to state lender VTB for about 138 billion roubles (1.78 billion pounds), bringing Kremlin influence into the retail sector for the first time.

(Reporting by Polina Ivanova; Writing by Andrew Osborn; Editing by Polina Ivanova)

Stocks treated in this article : Magnit PAO, Bank VTB PAO