Mike Lazaridis has sold 3.5 million shares of the BlackBerry $ 26 million

Co-founder of BlackBerry (former Research in Motion) Mike Lazaridis sold a large stake pact. On Monday, he got rid of the 3.5 million shares of a total value of 26 million dollars. Thus as a result, its share declined 5.68% stake in the company to 4.99% of the shares. Altogether he spent two transactions - 3.17 million shares at an average cost of $ 7.55 and 333,107 shares at an average cost of $ 7.63 per share. important is the fact of the sale of shares, as it is at odds with previous reports that may Lazaridis together with other co-founder, Doug Freginsom (Doug Fregins), redeem BlackBerry, which is now in deep crisis. The share Freginsa now accounts for 2.26% of the shares BlackBerry. The largest holder is a company Fairfax Financial. Representatives of the company rejected a proposal for the sale of its founders BlackBerry, instead preferring to invest one billion dollars of additional funding. The result was a write-off by $ 4.4 billion loss in the third quarter.