Alexander Mamut

Alexander Leonidovich Mamut (Russian Александр Леонидович Мамут; born January 29, 1960 in Moscow ) is a Russian lawyer, banker and investor. He is considered one of the most powerful oligarchs of Russia.

Operations

In the 1990s Alexander Mamut was advisor to the Russian government of Boris Yeltsin, Yeltsin's daughter and a friend of Tatyana Dyachenko.

In 1994 he founded the small HEAD Bank, which played a decisive role in the controversial privatization of the oil company Sibneft, were prevented than other bidders to bid. Even with the acquisition of Promstroibank by Boris Berezovsky Mamut helped. In connection with the money laundering scandal involving the Bank of New York became Mamut Moscow Sobinbank to the attention of management for the fight against economic crime and the Russian Federal Security Service FSB, because they should have made the controversial Flamingo banking transactions.

Alexander Mamut is therefore also known as the banker of the Kremlin because he is said to have financed together with the financier Roman Abramovich, the election campaign of former President Vladimir Putin. The U.S. magazine Forbes leads Mamut on its list of The World's Billionaires with $ 1.5 billion fortune on the 655 rank.

Alexander Mamut is very active in the media industry. In December 2007 he bought with his company SUP Weblog provider LiveJournal, whose Russian service SUP had operated as a licensee since 2006. One of his closest associates is the most popular Russian blogger Rustem Adagamow.

In addition, he holds 60 percent of the publishing group founded in June 2008 Azbooka Atticus with a total turnover of 50 to 60 million U.S. dollars. These include the publishers Azbooka, Inostranka, hummingbird and Machaon.

In May 2011, Mamut bought by the British HMV Group, which operates in the UK and Ireland bookstore chain Waterstone's for £ 53 million sterling.

Family

Alexander Mamut is considered reclusive. He is widowed and has three children.