Mikhail Fridman
Mikhail Fridman Maratowitsch (* April 21, 1964 in Lviv, then Ukrainian SSR ) is one of the most influential business leaders in Russia and one of the Russian oligarchs.
Mikhail Fridman, along with Pyotr Aven of the main founders of the Alfa Group, one of the largest private industrial and financial groups in Russia. He is Chairman of the Board of Alfa Group and held senior positions of various subsidiaries of the " Alfa Group ", for example, as Chairman of the Directors of "Alfa- Bank" - and with 36 percent of the shares whose largest shareholder -, Chairman of Directors of Oil daughter " TNK- BP ", Member of Directors of VimpelCom and the Supervisory Board of X5 Retail Group NV.
Life
Fridman comes from a resident of Lviv Jewish family. His parents emigrated to Germany.
His business career began Fridman as a student at the Moscow Institute of Steel and metal alloys with different in the former Soviet Union still partly illegal jobs such as window cleaning, the operation of a disco and theater tickets business. In the liberal era under Gorbachev, the employees at this time in a mechanical engineering company Fridman cooperatives founded in various fields, for example, a real estate brokerage office for foreigners, a cigarette and perfume import, a computer store, a laboratory for breeding white mice, a courier company and the company " Alfa Photo ". In 1988, two years after his graduation, he founded together with other investors, the "Alfa- Eco Group", which enjoyed rapid growth due to their lucrative business. The "Alfa- Eco Group" was connected with the Swiss company " ADP Trading " and imported sugar, tea, cigarettes and other goods to Russia. 1992 Alfa also received the license for the export of Russian oil. From this beginning, the " Alfa Group " developed.
His partner Pyotr Aven, a fellow student of the future prime minister Yegor Gaidar Timurowitsch, was at the beginning of the 1990s at the same time Russian Minister of Foreign Trade, followed by Aven director of "Alfa- Bank" (which he still is today ). Because of this close relationship with highest points, the Alfa Consortium has received numerous lucrative contracts. In the Yeltsin era, these relationships were relatively 'second class', since Putin took office, they are "first class". Among the subsidiaries include the telecommunications company Altimo, which had been founded in 2004 as Alfa Telecom.
Fridmans personal fortune was estimated by the Manager Magazine (in 2006 ) to the equivalent of about 9.7 billion U.S. dollars ( # 5 on the 100 richest Russians ), according to a published rating in September 2006 the Polish magazine " Wprost " it is even estimated 12.4 billion U.S. dollars.
Fridman is accused of being responsible for the occurred in November 2002 environmental disaster caused by the wreck of the oil tanker " Prestige" on the coast of Spain, which indirectly belonged to him through an offshore company, although multiple serious technical defects in the ship were found, such as that under could see the disaster investigation initiated proceedings, he let it continue. In addition, he withdrew with this offshore company allegedly enormous profits of taxation.
On 31 January 2005, the issue of anti-government newspaper Kommersant published with only four pages and numerous white spots. It contained only a revocation and the text of a judgment with which they had been condemned to pay damages amounting to the equivalent of 8.5 million euros at Alfa Bank. The editors said in a corner of the sheet, the issue is exclusively dedicated to Alfa Bank and its leader Mikhail Fridman, "in that they liked him."
On March 16, 2014, the German energy group RWE announced the agreement with a consortium of investors to Fridman controlled LetterOne Group, based in Luxembourg to sell its oil and gas subsidiary RWE Dea for 5.1 billion euros.
Political offices
Furthermore, Fridman board member of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Employers' Association, member of the Russian Public Chamber ( Общественная палата ) and the International Oversight Board of the Council for Foreign Relations ( USA), as well as Vice Chairman of the Russian Jewish Congress.
Quote
"Even though it sounds boring: I'm actually only interested in the business. "
Swell
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 14, 2004
- Manager magazin, 20 October 2006