"to the ski resort of Verbier. Swiss authorities denied the application after the Swiss Federal Office of Police concluded that Abramovich was under ""suspicion of money laundering and presumed contacts with criminal organisations"", and that his assets were ""at least partially of illegal origin"". Abramovich unsuccessfully took legal action to prevent Swiss media from reporting on the matter, and denied the allegations. Roman Abramovich Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich (Russian: Рома́н Арка́дьевич Абрамо́вич, ; Hebrew: רומן אברמוביץ'; born 24 October 1966) is a Russian-Israeli billionaire businessman, investor and politician. Abramovich is the primary owner of the private investment company Millhouse LLC, and"
"ARA Capital ARA Capital (acronym for Arkadiy Romanovich Abramovich) is a British registered company created in 2017 to manage assets owned by the Russian businessman Arkadiy Abramovich. Assets under management included major stakes in e-commerce and gas, oil company Gazprom Neft. ARA Capital is based in London in England. ARA Capital realizes investments in several sectors in particular that of the e-commerce business, gas and the oil. The company also develops in Australia on the market of the stock exchange and the actions. It is an owner of actions in several European societies such as LVMH, Hermes or still Chateau"
"in April 2006 to manage the assets of Abramovich and his partners. The London office of Millhouse Capital was closed in August 2008 and its functions rolled into a new firm, MHC (Services) Ltd. Millhouse Capital Millhouse Capital is a British registered company created in 2001 to manage assets owned by the Russian businessman Roman Abramovich and his partners. Chairman of the company is Russian-American businessman Eugene Shvidler. Assets under management included major stakes in oil company Sibneft (now Gazprom Neft), Russian Aluminum, Aeroflot Russian Airlines, and RusPromAvto, as well as investments in electricity, pulp and paper processing, insurance and"
"Millhouse Capital Millhouse Capital is a British registered company created in 2001 to manage assets owned by the Russian businessman Roman Abramovich and his partners. Chairman of the company is Russian-American businessman Eugene Shvidler. Assets under management included major stakes in oil company Sibneft (now Gazprom Neft), Russian Aluminum, Aeroflot Russian Airlines, and RusPromAvto, as well as investments in electricity, pulp and paper processing, insurance and banking. Millhouse Capital's shareholders sold their 26 percent holding in OAO Aeroflot in 2003 and a 50 percent stake in OAO Russian Aluminum (UC RUSAL), now the world's largest aluminum producer, in two deals"
"Cheval Blanc. ARA Capital is an owner of several companies. It holds in particular : ARA Capital ARA Capital (acronym for Arkadiy Romanovich Abramovich) is a British registered company created in 2017 to manage assets owned by the Russian businessman Arkadiy Abramovich. Assets under management included major stakes in e-commerce and gas, oil company Gazprom Neft. ARA Capital is based in London in England. ARA Capital realizes investments in several sectors in particular that of the e-commerce business, gas and the oil. The company also develops in Australia on the market of the stock exchange and the actions. It is"
"founder, Yuri Konoplev. According to ""Forbes"", as of March 2016, Abramovich had a net worth of 7.6 billion, ranking him as the 151th richest person in the world. In March 2017, Bloomberg estimated his wealth as 10.4 billion. Prior to the 2008 financial crisis, he was considered to be the second richest person living within the United Kingdom. Early in 2009, ""The Times"" estimated that due to the global economic crisis he had lost £3 billion from his £11.7 billion wealth. Abramovich reportedly donated more money to charity than any other living Russian. Between 2009 and 2013, Abramovich donated more"
"Arkadiy Abramovich Arkadiy Romanovich Abramovich (; born 14 September 1993) is the heir to Roman Abramovich, Russian billionaire and owner of Chelsea F.C. Abramovich is one of five children born to Russian-Israeli billionaire Roman Abramovich and Irina Abramovich (née Malandina). His mother is a former Aeroflot stewardess. They divorced in 2007. He has one brother and three sisters: Ilya, Arina, Sofia, and Anna. Arkadiy also has two younger half-siblings: Aaron and Leah Lou. Arkadiy is the founder and owner of ARA Capital, a private investment vehicle whose assets include Zoltav Resources PLC, a company listed on the London Stock Exchange"
"Aluminium and Roman Abramovich's Millhouse Capital. In 2007, Rusal merged with SUAL Group and Glencore International AG to form UC Rusal, with Deripaska as chairman. He was once Russia's richest man, worth $28 billion, but lost a substantial part of his fortune amid the 2007–08 financial crisis. As of August 2018, his wealth was estimated by ""Forbes"" at $3.3 billion. Deripaska is also known for his connection to American political consultant Paul Manafort, who has been convicted on charges of tax fraud, bank fraud and failure to report foreign bank accounts, which stemmed from Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference"
"that Alexander Abramov, who is Roman Abramovich's partner in Evraz, is an investor in American Ethane. Beginning in January 2014, Roman Abramovich was an investor with American Ethane but left in April 2017. John Houghtaling II, a co-founder, is the CEO. James Glickenhaus and J. M. “Jim” Collingsworth serve on the Board of Directors. In January 2014, Roman Abramovich through his Millhouse LLC, which is a Moscow-based asset management company, signed an agreement at the John Houghtaling II house in New Orleans and made a $50 million investment in the American Ethane Compnay but backed out in late 2015 after"
"factories. While groups such as Alfa were shedding non-core assets, Abramov and his like were building empires. In June 2005 EvrazHolding was listed on the London Stock Exchange. Five months later, Abramov resigned as group president but remains a member of the board. He has made numerous strategic business acquisitions. For example, in 2007 Abramov acquired Oregon Steel Mills and Claymont Steel. He is married with three children and lives in Moscow. Alexander Abramov Alexander Grigoryevich Abramov (, born 1959) is a Russian former scientist who became an industrial magnate as one of the two heads of Evraz, Russia's largest"
"Evraz EVRAZ plc () is a multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining company with headquarters in London, United Kingdom. It has operations mainly in Russia, but also in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Italy, Czech Republic, the United States, Canada and South Africa. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. As of 2015, the ultimate beneficial owners were Roman Abramovich (31.03%), chairman Alexander Abramov (21.59%) and CEO Aleksandr Frolov (10.78%). The company was founded as a small metal trading business in 1992. On 2 June 2005 Evraz Group floated some 8.3 percent"
"in the United Kingdom with an electrical output of one MW. In September 2012, the company opened an alkaline fuel cell electrode pilot production plant in Dunsfold, Surrey. In November 2013 AFC Energy appointed GB Innomech to design and build an automated manufacturing system to assemble alkaline fuel cell stacks. Each stack comprises multiple layers assembled in sequence to form specific channels carrying hydrogen, air or potassium hydroxide electrolyte. In October 2014 the company raised £6.1m from investors. This notably included the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. His company Ervington Investments Ltd. owns more than 15 percent of AFC. In March"
"Alexander Abramov Alexander Grigoryevich Abramov (, born 1959) is a Russian former scientist who became an industrial magnate as one of the two heads of Evraz, Russia's largest steel producer. Beginning in 1998, at one point he had amassed the largest steel and iron empire in Russia, which employed 125,000 people, controlling about 22 percent of the country's total steel output with an annual turnover of $20 billion. A business partner and ally of Aleksandr Frolov and Roman Abramovich, Abramov was in March 2015 listed by ""Forbes"" as having an estimated net worth of $4.3 billion. He graduated from the"
"Alfa Group Alfa Group Consortium () is one of Russia's largest privately owned investment groups, with interests in oil and gas, commercial and investment banking, asset management, insurance, retail trade, telecommunications, water utilities and special situation investments. Alfa Group's portfolio of companies includes Alfa-Bank, X5 Retail Group, A1 Group, Alfa Capital Management, AlfaStrakhovanie Group, Rosvodokanal Group, and Morginsuisse Holdings. The group was founded in 1989 as ""Alfa-Eco"" by Israeli-Russian businessman Mikhail Fridman, the second wealthiest man in Russia, in partnership with German Khan, Alexei Kuzmichov, Alexander Kushev, and several other partners. Its headquarters are in Moscow. As a holding company,"
"(manufacturer of plastic toys), and May 1991 to May 1993, as director of the ABK small enterprise in Moscow. According to various sources, from 1992 to 1995 Roman Abramovich set up five companies engaged in the production of consumer goods and selling-and-buying. In May 1995, jointly with Boris Berezovsky, he set up the P.K. Trust close joint-stock company. In 1995 and 1996, he established another 10 firms: Mekong close joint-stock company, Centurion-M close joint-stock company, Agrofert limited liability company, Multitrans close joint-stock company, Oilimpex close joint-stock company, Sibreal close joint-stock company, Forneft close joint-stock company, Servet close joint-stock company, Branco"
"Russian fund, Run Capital, whose shareholders are the founders of the Qiwi payment system: Andrey Muraviev, Nikolay Romanenko and Andrey Romanenko. The investors each acquired a 10 percent stake in Group-IB for an undisclosed fee. In 2017, IDC Russia named Group-IB as the leading Russian Threat Intelligence Security Service while Forrester Research included the company in its Cyber Threat Intelligence Vendor landscape report. In 2015, Ilya received the EY's Entrepreneur of the Year National Award in the ""Telecommunications"" category and Special ""Business Internet Choice"" Prize. In 2016 he was ranked among the most notable young entrepreneurs under 30 according to"
"Hermitage Capital Management Hermitage Capital Management is an investment fund and asset management company specializing in Russian markets founded by Bill Browder and Edmond Safra. Chief Operating Officer is Ivan Cherkasov. Hermitage Capital Management headquarters are in Guernsey, it also maintains offices in the Cayman Islands, London and Moscow, Russia. Its main investment fund, the Hermitage Fund created in 1996, was rated as extremely successful after earning 2,697% between 1996 and December 2007. It was ranked the World’s Best Performing Emerging Markets Fund over the 1996-2001 five-year period by Nelsons. Hermitage describe themselves as an activist fund. Its main tactics"
"Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) indicated that it would be suing Abramovich over a £9 million (US$14.9 million/€10.6 million) loan. The EBRD said that it is owed US$17.5 million (€12.45 million/£10.6 million) by Runicom, a Switzerland-based oil trading business which had been controlled by Abramovich and Eugene Shvidler. Abramovich's spokesman indicated that the loan had previously been repaid. Russia's antitrust body, the Federal Antimonopoly Service, claimed that Evraz Holding, owned in part by Abramovich, had breached Russian competition law by offering unfavorable terms for contractors and discriminating against domestic consumers for coking coal, a key material used in steel production. According"
"to Putin, Abramovich has been cheated by Ukrainian-Cypriot-Israeli oligarch Igor Kolomoyskyi. Putin claimed in 2014 that Kolomoyskyi had reneged on a contract with Abramovich, saying that the paid signed a multibillion-dollar deal on which Kolomoyskyi never delivered. In June 2003, Abramovich became the owner of the companies that control Chelsea Football Club in West London. The previous owner of the club was Ken Bates, who went on to buy Leeds United. Chelsea immediately embarked on an ambitious programme of commercial development, with the aim of making it a worldwide brand on a par with footballing dynasties such as Manchester United"
"Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. EvrazHolding is a product of Russia's growth since the 1998 financial crisis and Abramov is representative of the second wave of Russian magnates who went into business after the best assets had been taken. Unlike the first wave of politically connected oligarchs, such as Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Vladimir Potanin, Abramov had neither political leverage nor financial resources to help him benefit from Russia's chaotic privatisation of the 1990s. In recent years Evraz-Holding has emerged as one of the most aggressive vertically integrated business groups in Russia. Its assets include three large steel mills, three"
"Check Point. Since 2007, Group-IB has been cooperating with Microsoft. In 2015, the two companies presented joint research on the economic impact of cyber-attacks. Group-IB is a resident of the Moscow-based Skolkovo Foundation (dubbed ""Russian Silicon Valley""). As part of Skolkovo innovative projects, Group-IB created the so-called ""CyberCop"", a global counter-cybercrime system. The company has also established an additional office in Innopolis—a science park in Tatarstan, Russia. In 2010, LETA Group, an investment and management company in information technology, acquired 50% of Group-IB's assets. In 2013, Group-IB management bought out LETA Group's share. In mid-2016 Russian-founded Altera Capital and Run"
"joint management company called AirBridge. KrasAir is owned by the city government of Krasnoyarsk (51%) and AirBridge management (49%) (Boris Abramovich - CEO and his brother, Alexander Abramovich - deputy CEO, no relation to Roman Abramovich). While retaining separate legal identities the airlines were planning to integrate their networks and services, as they are largely complementary. In April 2007 AirBridge had purchased Malév airline from Hungarian government. Boris Abramovich is also a CEO of AirUnion alliance. The Abramovich brothers' aggressive expansion campaign led to the creation of AiRUnion alliance in 2005, the first airline alliance in Russia. It included KrasAir,"
"to oil oligarch Roman Abramovich, he has a grandson, Aaron Abramovich (born 2009), and a granddaughter, Leah Abramovich (born 2013). In the late 1980s Zhukov founded the cooperative “Byte” and started the business of selling personal computers. In the early nineties jointly with his acquaintances Leonid Lebedev and Mark Garber he founded a cooperative named “Sintez”. In 1991-1992 Sintez started to trade oil and oil products. In 1992 Sintez founded a company named “Negusneft” that acquired a license to explore and develop a small Varyngskoe field in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District. Also, Sintez acquired 10% share in “Nizhnevartovskneftegaz” (the core"
"a real-estate investor, currently constructing 30 real estate projects. Usmanov is a close friend of Roman Abramovich, who owns Chelsea Football Club, and the two shared the same circle of friends in Russia (Usmanov even employed Abramovich's first wife Olga to work for his company). Usmanov owns the Grade I listed Tudor mansion Sutton Place set in in Surrey, which he bought for £10 million in 2004. In 2012, it was claimed by businessman Boris Berezovsky that Usmanov was given Sutton Place as part of a business deal, a claim that Usmanov denied. In 2008, Usmanov bought Beechwood House, a"
"Invest Union ""This article is about a former subsidiary of Gazprom. For the current oil arm of Gazprom, see Gazprom Neft."" Invest Union (formerly Gazpromneft) is a Russian company based in St. Petersburg and a former subsidiary of Gazprom. It is not to be confused with Gazprom Neft (formerly Sibneft), which is another company. On 19 December 2004, Gazpromneft (along with Baikalfinansgrup) participated in a State-run auction for former Yukos subsidiary Yuganskneftegaz. At the time of the auction, the CEO of Gazpromneft was Sergey Bogdanchikov, the then and current President of Rosneft. Gazpromneft did not place a bid at the"
"Investments B.V, a holding registered under Dutch law. Alstom Holdings owns 20% in this structure, while companies owned by Iskander Makhmudov, Andrei Bokarev, Dmitry Komissarov and Kirill Lipa, accounted for about 80%. The President of the company is Andrei Bokarev and the current Chairman of the Board, as of November 2012, is Anatoly Ledovskikh. Mr. Ledovskikh is the former head of the Russian government agency Federal Agency for Subsoil Use, also known as Rosnedra. The company actively works with JSC Russian Railways, the Ministry of Transportation of the Russian Federation, and other Russian Federation ministries, including Ministry of Industry and"
"company's property portfolio was valued at $1.593bn as at 31 December 2017. Raven Property Group Raven Property Group Limited (formerly Raven Russia) is a property investment company specialising in commercial property in Russia. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a former constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. The company was founded by Anton Bilton and Glyn Hirsch, two British property entrepreneurs, who were interested in property in Russia. It was floated on the Alternative Investment Market as Raven Russia in July 2005 and moved to the main market in 2011. In June 2018, the company announced"
"company is financed by Quality Sports III Investments LP and Quality Sports III Jersey GP Limited, which both entity were renamed to Burnaby Investments LP and Burnaby GP Limited respectively in November 2012. In 2014 The Guardian reported that Chelsea FC plc was the owner of Burnaby Investments LP, as shown in its annual report from 2011–12 to 2013–14. During 2014–15 season Chelsea sold the shares in Burnaby Investments LP to Cetus Investments Limited for €9,855,769, which was a company also owned by Roman Abramovich, but independent from Chelsea. In 2017 annual return of Burnaby GP Limited, the manager of"
"“swift and robust action” adding that “top Putin oligarchs should be on that list”. Also in May, Browder was briefly detained in Spain when a Russian arrest warrant for extradition placed him on Interpol’s Red Notice. Hermitage Capital Management Hermitage Capital Management is an investment fund and asset management company specializing in Russian markets founded by Bill Browder and Edmond Safra. Chief Operating Officer is Ivan Cherkasov. Hermitage Capital Management headquarters are in Guernsey, it also maintains offices in the Cayman Islands, London and Moscow, Russia. Its main investment fund, the Hermitage Fund created in 1996, was rated as extremely"
"when around $200 million had been reached, Rosinvest, a subsidiary of the Swiss registered company Lirus Management, was established to invest the money in Russia. Putin allegedly held 94% of shares in Rosinvest, with Kolesnikov, Shamalov and Dmitry Vladimirovich Gorelov (director of Petromed and another friend of Putin from his time in Saint Petersburg) taking 2% each. Rosinvest's interests included shipbuilding, construction, and lumber/timber processing. Kolesnikov is reported as saying that Abramovich and the other donors to health projects acted 'nobly', implying they were unaware that a significant proportion of their donations was being diverted into an investment vehicle allegedly"
"largest aluminium and alumina producers. Rusal has historically opted to fully integrate its assets under centralized operational and management control. The company has achieved increased production and efficiency in most of its acquired facilities through production “creep” (improvements achieved through targeted improvements to key processes), as well as by undertaking key modernization and expansion projects. Rusal was founded in 2000 after Sibirsky Aluminium and Millhouse Capital, owned by Roman Abramovich, agreed to merge their aluminium and alumina assets. By 2002, Sibirsky Aluminium and Millhouse Capital were managing controlling stakes in the Armenal foil mill in Armenia and the Belaya Kalitva"
"insurance companies and family offices. TCP predominantly invests in later-stage development and buyout situations. The primary focus is consumer-driven and technology enabled sectors. Since 2008 Troika Dialog organizes annual three-day forum held in Moscow – “The Russia Forum”. The Forum follows a similar format to that of the Davos meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in bringing together representatives of the international investor's community, Russian political and business leaders, public figures, celebrities and media to discuss Russia's involvement the challenges facing Russia and the global economy Sberbank CIB Sberbank CIB is a multinational investment banking and asset management firm"
"the recession. Topping the list of Russia's billionaires in 2009 is Mikhail Prokhorov with $9.5 billion, ahead of the more famous Roman Abramovich with $8.5 billion, in . Prokhorov's holding company, ""ОНЭКСИМ"" (""ONÈKSIM"") group, owns huge assets in hydrogen energy, nanotechnology, traditional energy, precious metals sector, while Abramovich, since selling his oil company Sibneft to Russian state-controlled gas giant Gazprom in 2005, has bought up steel and mining assets. He also owns Chelsea F.C.. Russia's richest woman remains Yelena Baturina, the 50-year-old second wife of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. Oleg Deripaska, the 1st on this list in 2008 with $28"