Suleyman Kerimov
Suleiman Kerimov Abusaidowitsch (Russian Сулейман Абусаидович Керимов; born March 12, 1966 in Derbent, Dagestan ) is a Russian oligarch and a member of parliament. According to dpa (2008) He was one of the richest men in the world with 17.5 billion U.S. $ assets ( No. 35). For 2009, Forbes prized him only to $ 3.1 billion, which he was world ranked 196. In 2011, he became known to the world as a major investor of the football club Anzhi Makhachkala and listed according to Forbes, with $ 7.8 billion at No. 118.
Life
Kerimov belongs to the Caucasian ethnic group of the Lezgins. In 1989, he earned a degree in economics, following, he worked in an electronics combine in his home region.
He stands behind the investment company Nafta Moscow, the shares in several banks holds and is also entered in Yukos, and is regarded as the largest shareholder of the fifth largest silver producer in the world ( and largest Russian silver exporter) Polymetal, which went public in Q1 2007 is. According to a press report in June 2008, he is planning to buy a large scale of Deutsche Bank and other Western financial institutions shares. According to the Russian newspaper Kommersant, citing investment banking circles he plans his share of Germany's largest financial institution of last around three to expand to nine percent. Kerimov is said to have now sold almost all investments in Russia. Investments in the West for him are likely to be less risky, said a financial expert, the Kommersant Moscow. The paper said Kerimov had held about three percent in Deutsche Bank in late 2007. In addition, he had each acquired about one percent of the UBS, Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse banks. In 2010 he acquired by Dmitri Jewgenjewitsch Rybolowlew for $ 5 billion whose shares to Uralkali.
In December 2007, Kerimov became its representative in the Federation Council, Russia's upper house elected by the parliament of his home region of Dagestan. Previously, he had been sitting for the ultra-nationalist LDPR ( " Liberal Democrats " ) of Vladimir Zhirinovsky in the lower house, the State Duma.
In April 2007, Zhirinovsky said that Kerimov had been excluded from the group because he had refused to participate in regional elections in March. Observers evaluated the departure but as a blow for Zhirinovsky because Kerimov was considered one of his greatest financiers. Then Kerimov was counted for the fraction pro-government United Russia party, but no longer set it up for election in December 2007.
Zhirinovsky and Kerimov visited Iraq in 1998 and, according to U.S. authorities are involved in the Oil - for-Food scandal.
As part of the potash conflict between the Russian Uralkali and Belarus Belaruskaly was adopted on September 2, 2013 an international arrest warrant against Kerimov. Kerimov - the largest single shareholder of Uralkali - is accused by the Belarusian authorities ' abuse of power and abuse of official position ". Interpol denied on September 11, 2013, that an international arrest warrants against Kerimov already had been issued; Rather, the pertinent application would initially be tested.
Private
Kerimov is married and has three children.
He is President of the Russian first division club Anzhi Makhachkala and has been helping the now defunct club Saturn Moscow suburb Ramenskoje with 50 million euros, according to Kicker sports magazine. Also the boxer Sultan Ibragimov was sponsored by him.
End of 2006, Kerimov suffered with a Ferrari Enzo burn injuries in a severe crash near Nice in southern France.