Former BCCI chief and current Union Minister Sharad Pawar has disclosed his links with the Royal Challengers Bangalore, where he owns a small percentage by way of having 51,000 shares in Vijay Mallya's United Spirits Limited (USL). The Royal Challengers Bangalore franchise is wholly owned by USL.
Pawar's links with City Corporation, who had bid unsuccessfully for the Pune franchise, had emerged via a report in the Times of India, upon which the Pawar family came out with strong statements denying their role or ownership of anything in the IPL.
Pawar, however, has a link with the Bangalore franchise, with the Pawars owning more than 51,000 shares (currently valued at about Rs. 6 crores) in USL, of which Royal Challengers Sports Private Ltd (RCSPL) is a wholly-owned subsidiary.
Vijay Mallya, however, has defended Sharad Pawar, saying that USL was a public company and had lakhs of share-holders. He said it was absurd to connect the fact that Pawar had shares in USL with ownership of RCB, since by that logic every person who had a share in USL was an owner of RCB.
"It is absurd to say that Sharad Pawar owns any stake in the Royal Challengers Bangalore," Mallya told television channels. "USL has lakhs of subscribers, so are they all owners of RCB? By any yardstick does that seem feasible?"
The Pawars shareholding in USL, which is about 0.05 per cent of the company's equity came up through a merger of Baramati Grape Industries Ltd in 2006, where Pawar's family has a 'significant stake'. The Minister's brother is a director with USL.
The shares are largely held via Lap Finance and Consultancy Pvt Ltd, a family enterprise of the Pawars, which holds at least 13,950 shares of USL.
Lap Finance is fully owned by Sharad Pawar, his wife Pratibha and daughter Supriya Sule. Each of them holds one-third of the shares in the company.
sourceby: cricbuzz.com
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