The Russian government has proposed that a son of Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, an old KGB associate of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, join the supervisory board of state-owned Russian Agricultural Bank, a major lender to the country's agriculture, Presidential Aide Arkady Dvorkovich said on Thursday.
"There are such proposals from the government," Dvorkovich told journalists when asked if Ivanov's son, whose name is also Sergei, could join Russian Agricultural Bank.
Ivanov the elder is responsible for military and science issues in the government. His son, 31, chairs Sogaz, an insurance company linked to state-run gas giant Gazprom.
Russian Agricultural Bank is chaired by Dmitry Patrushev, the son of Kremlin Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev who headed the FSB, the successor to the KGB, for over eight years.
President Dmitry Medvedev has recently ordered deputy prime ministers and ministers to quit the boards of directors of 17 large state-owned firms by July. They must quit other companies' boards by October.
MOSCOW, May 12 (RIA Novosti)
