О рисках предупреждали ещё в августе:
«The Kremlin wants Yandex to be owned by people with Russian passports, The Bell news website wrote. Yandex founder Arkady Volozh, who holds 49 percent of voting rights in the company, has a Maltese passport, in addition to a Russian passport. Yandex's structure also gives the state-owned Sberbank a „golden share“ that allows it to block the sale of 25 percent of its shares.»
Наверху не любят людей с иностранными паспортами.
Также СМИ утверждают, что Волож попал под прицел из-за конфликта с Грефом:
«According to media reports, one of the reasons for Goreklin’s bill is a conflict between Yandex founder Volozh and German Gref, president of state-owned Sberbank. In autumn 2018, the state bank aggressively attempted to obtain a 30-percent share in Yandex — supposedly to defend the company from potential problems with competitors and the state. That news story alone cost the company $1.8 billion of its market capitalization.
Gref wanted Yandex because he aims to turn Sberbank into a Russian Amazon.com — a technology company with its own retail, fintech, media and other divisions. The state bank already has a joint project with Yandex: the Beru online marketplace. However, the two partners have serious disagreements about how to develop the business.»
При этом Волож уже выбрал преемника по управлению компанией. Вероятно, страхуется как Дуров.
www.vedomosti.ru/technology/articles/2019/05/22/802223-tigran
