Bidzina Ivanishvili
Bidsina Ivanishvili (Georgian ბიძინა ივანიშვილი; Russian Борис Иванишвили / Boris Ivanishvili, born February 18, 1956 in Tschorwila ) is a Georgian businessman and politician. The billionaire founded in December 2011, a citizens' movement, from the Georgian opposition party emerged Georgian Dream in April 2012. From October 25th 2012 to November 20, 2013, he was head of the government of Georgia.
Life
Bidsina Ivanishvili was born as the youngest of five children of a small farmer and his wife in the region of Imereti. The father worked temporarily at a manganese factory. However, the family was so poor that Ivanishvili had no shoes and had to walk barefoot. He graduated from high school in the Sachkhere with very good grades and began studying engineering and economics at the State University of Tbilisi. On the side he had a job in a steel mill. In 1982 he moved to Moscow, where he continued his economics degree at the State University of Transport Moscow.
In a side job as a tutor Ivanishvili met Vitaly Malkin, with whom he founded an import company for computers, video recorders and telephones in the perestroika period. Until 1990, the two partners had already acquired about $ 100,000. With the money they founded in 1990 Rossiski Bank, the first devoted himself to the currency exchange. Even today Ivanishvili holds two thirds of the ownership interests. As part of the privatization of Russian state assets, the Bank acquired iron mines, avoided, however, to intertwine with the Mafia or the Russian security apparatus. In commodities, Ivanishvili generated huge profits, soon got Russian citizenship.
1999 Iwanischwilis fortune was estimated at $ 3.2 billion, in 2012 it had grown to an estimated $ 6.4 billion. The billionaire made with spectacular purchases talked about: His Unikor Holding acquired the former Hotel Lux in Moscow, which he had rebuilt to a " luxury fashion hotel ". In 2006, he acquired one of the most famous paintings by Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar au Chat, for 95 million dollars.
Ivanishvili 2003, he returned back to Georgia. He lives with his wife and three children alternately at his birthplace Tschorwila and in a residence with upstream commercial buildings his company in Tbilisi. The complex was designed by the Japanese architect Shin Takamatsu and is estimated at a value of 50 million dollars. When he took French nationality in March 2010, it was withdrawn from the Georgian.
Political commitment and choice to the Prime Minister
After the Rose Revolution in Georgia Ivanishvili funded secretly President Mikheil Saakashvili's reforms. He paid for new boots for the armed forces of Georgia. The Georgian police got out of his means new vehicles. He helped to raise the pay of members of parliament and members of the ministerial order to immunize them against bribes. The Iwanischwilis relationship with the president cooled, however, when Saakashvili in mass protests in Georgia in 2007 with water cannons and tear gas attacked by dissidents, the media was controlled and in 2008 broke the Caucasus war between Russia and Georgia. Saakashvili had led him up the garden path, said the billionaire.
In October 2011, Ivanishvili announced his intention to form a political party with the aim to participate in the Georgian parliamentary elections in 2012. In April 2012 he founded the party alliance Georgian Dream. It combines several opposition parties, including the Republican Party, the Free Democrats, the National Forum, the Conservative Party and the Party for the industrialization of Georgia. President Saakashvili attacked Ivanishvili then as a " straw man " of Moscow.
In the Georgian parliamentary elections on October 1, 2012 Ivanishvili won with the Alliance Georgian Dream a landslide victory. With 54.9 percent of the vote he was well ahead of the United National Movement Party of President Mikheil Saakashvili, who won 40.4 percent of the vote.
To be Prime Minister may, Ivanishvili gave up his French citizenship and was returned to his Georgian citizenship.
On October 25, 2012 Ivanishvili was elected by Parliament in Kutaisi to the Georgian Prime Minister. 88 of the 150 seats, three deputies more than his new coalition government mandates, has voted for him.
Documents published in April 2013 offshore Leaks show that Bidsina Ivanishvili owns the company " Bosherston Overseas Corp. " on the tax haven of the British Virgin Islands. A spokesman for the prime minister said his commitment is in accordance with the laws, because he had made about the company in 2012 no income, which would have been taxable. That's why he had the company not to disclose income statement for the period 2011-2012 in the (compulsory for Georgian government members).
In November 2013 Ivanishvili resigned in favor of his former Interior Minister Irakli Gharibaschwili from the post of Prime Minister.