MTN chairman sells $8.8 million of shares ahead of new CEO’s arrival
He will return to his previous role as non-executive chairman when Shuter joins from Vodafone Group Plc on March 17, Bloomberg reported.
MTN said in November 2015 Nhleko would retake the helm after CEO Sifiso Dabengwa resigned in the wake of a record $5.2 billion fine in Nigeria.
The chairman led negotiations with the country’s authorities, eventually agreeing to pay about $1 billion, and hired Shuter as his successor. As CEO for almost nine years until 2011, he transformed MTN from a small South African wireless carrier into a telecommunications giant with customers in 22 countries.
The chairman sold about 1.08 million shares at 113.86 rand each. He had just over 2 million shares at the end of 2015, according to MTN’s annual report.
MTN shares declined 0.6 percent to 113.20 rand by the close in Johannesburg, extending the year’s decline to 15 percent. That values the company at 217 billion rand.
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