Kerimov Suleiman Abusaidovich, Russian entrepreneur: biography, personal life, family, fortune. Suleiman Kerimov: biography, activities in business and politics, net worth The net worth of Suleiman Kerimov
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Kerimov Suleiman Abusaidovich
Kerimov Suleiman Abusaidovich, born March 12, 1966, native of Derbent, Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Lezgin by nationality. Member of the Federation Council from the Republic of Dagestan. United Russia Party.
BiographyKerimov Suleiman Abusaidovich, born March 12, 1966, native of Derbent, Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Lezgin by nationality.
Currently, Kerimov's fortune is estimated at about $7.5 billion. He is one of the twenty richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes magazine.
On August 29, 2013, the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus announced that it was ready to open a criminal case against Kerimov.
On April 6, 2018, US sanctions were imposed against S. A. Kerimov.
Relatives. Wife: Firuza Nazimovna Kerimova (maiden name Khanbalaeva), born October 22, 1967, housewife. He is the beneficiary of FC-Capital CJSC, which owns 99.5% of the shares of Nafta-Moscow OJSC.
Son: Kerimov Said Suleymanovich, born on July 6, 1995, third-year student at the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy MGIMO, specializing in International Business and Business Administration. At the end of 2014, he acquired Russia's largest cinema chain, Cinema Park, from Vladimir Potanin for $300 million. In April 2015, it became known that the owner of 40.22% of Polyus Gold is not only the Suleyman Kerimov Foundation, but also Said Kerimov personally.
State. Income in 2014. RUB 109,624,689.02 Spouse: RUB 908,228.04 Real estate Apartment, 37.8 sq. m (in use) Spouse: Apartment, 54 sq. m, shared ownership 1/3 Child: Apartment, 54 sq. m. m (in use) Vehicles Passenger car, Mercedes-Benz S-class Spouse: Passenger car, BMW 7 series Spouse: Passenger car, BMW 7 series Spouse: Passenger car, Mercedes-Benz S-class FORBES magazine assessed Kerimov's condition at 3 .4 billion US dollars (April 2015). In 2014, Kerimov’s fortune was estimated at $6.9 billion.
Hobbies. Cars, auto racing, football.
Education- After graduating with honors from secondary school No. 19 in Derbent in 1983, he entered the construction department of the Dagestan Polytechnic Institute.
- After the first course he was drafted into the army. In 1984-1986 he served in the Strategic Missile Forces in Moscow, senior sergeant as crew chief.
- After returning from the army, Suleiman Kerimov transferred to the Faculty of Economics of the Dagestan State University, from which he graduated in 1989. He was deputy chairman of the university trade union committee.
After graduating from university, he worked at the Eltav plant (Makhachkala), where he worked his way up from economist to assistant general director for economic issues.
- In 1995, he became deputy general director of the Soyuz-Finance company (Moscow).
- In 1997, he became a research fellow, and in 1999, vice-president of the ANO International Institute of Corporations.
- At the same time, he was engaged in business, purchasing in 1998 a 55% stake in the oil trader Nafta-Moscow for $50 million. He subsequently acquired 100% of the shares of this company.
- From 1999 to 2007, Kerimov was a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, first from the Liberal Democratic Party, and since 2007 from the United Russia party.
- In 2007, he became a member of the Federation Council of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation from the Republic of Dagestan.
- Continuing to do business, in 2005 Kerimov acquired Mosstroyeconombank and the Polymetal company.
- Since 2011, he has been the owner of the Anzhi football club in Makhachkala.
- He also owns 25% of the shares of OJSC Uralkali. In April 2013, he transferred the rights to his assets to a charitable foundation.
Abramovich Roman Arkadievich, born October 24, 1966, entrepreneur. In 2001, he was Kerimov’s ally in obtaining a share in Andrei Andreev’s business (Avtobank, Ingosstrakh, NOSTA). Currently they continue to maintain contact.
Baturina Elena Nikolaevna, born 03/08/1963, entrepreneur. Wife of former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov. Kerimov previously collaborated with her on a number of development projects in Moscow, but their relationship subsequently deteriorated.
Gutseriev Mikhail Safarbekovich, born 03/09/1958, entrepreneur. They collaborated closely in the early 2000s, especially in the acquisition of Mosstroyeconombank.
Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska, born on January 2, 1968, entrepreneur, owner of the Basic Element Group of Companies. We've known each other since the 1990s. They collaborated in the acquisition of Nafta Moscow and the Varyeganneftegaz company in 2000, as a result of which Kerimov received 70% of the shares of this company.
Kandelaki Tinatin Givievna, born November 10, 1975, TV presenter, journalist. They were in a love affair, as a result of which Kandelaki separated from her husband Andrei Kondrakhin. Together in 2006, they had a serious accident in Nice, as a result of which Kerimov was hospitalized in serious condition.
Matvienko Sergey Vladimirovich, born 05/05/1973, entrepreneur. Son of the Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Valentina Matvienko. Kerimov worked closely with him in the implementation of development projects in St. Petersburg.
Khanbalaev Nazim Igramutdinovich, born on September 25, 1939, general director of Dagagrokomplekt LLC. Kerimov's father-in-law. “Supervised” his son-in-law’s career at the initial stage, helped him move to Moscow.
Amirov Said Dzhaparovich, born on March 5, 1954, native of the village. Dzhangamakhi, Levashinsky district, Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Former mayor of Makhachkala. On June 1, 2013, he was detained on suspicion of involvement in a criminal group, which is responsible for drug trafficking and numerous murders of law enforcement officers. He repeatedly contacted Kerimov as part of attracting the wealthy Dagestani community to participate in the “organization of life” of the local elite.
To informationOn the night of November 21, 2017, Kerimov was detained at Nice airport. Nice prosecutor Jean-Michel Pretre said that the senator was detained in a case of possible laundering of funds fraudulently withdrawn from taxation. The subject of the investigation was the acquisition of several villas on the French Riviera through fictitious companies in order to reduce taxes. Kerimov’s representative said that no charges had been brought against him, and the senator himself was confident of his innocence. In 2005, information appeared in the media about the proposed construction of a “city for millionaires” near Moscow, in which 30,000 wealthy residents of Russia were supposed to live, the idea of which belonged to Kerimov. However, he later sold the project to the president of Bin-Bank Mikail Shishkhanov. At the end of November 2006, he had a serious accident in Nice: a Ferrari Enzo, driven by Kerimov, for an unknown reason drove off the road and crashed into a tree. As a result of a collision with a tree, burning gasoline spilled from the car’s burst fuel tank onto Kerimov’s back. According to eyewitnesses, Kerimov ran out, engulfed in flames, and rolled on the ground, trying to put out the fire; this was only possible after three teenagers who were playing baseball nearby ran up to him. As a result of a huge traffic jam that formed at the scene of the accident, the entrance to Nice was blocked for about two hours. The helicopter took Kerimov with severe burns to a specialized department of the Conception hospital in Marseille, where he was connected to a ventilator. The victim was in a state of artificial coma. At the same time, Kerimov’s companion, the famous TV presenter Tina Kandelaki, was practically unharmed. The Ferrari, worth around €675,000, was sent to the scrapyard. On September 2, 2013, the Investigative Committee of Belarus announced the involvement of Kerimov as a defendant in organizing abuse of power and official authority (clause 4 of article 16 and part 3 of article 424 of the Criminal Code of Belarus). On the evening of September 2, Interpol accepted the application of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus and put Suleiman Kerimov on the international wanted list.
Member of the Federation Council from the Republic of Dagestan. In the past, he was a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the fourth convocation, a member of the United Russia faction (until April 2007, a member of the LDPR faction). Owner of the Nafta-Moscow company. According to media reports, he is one of the richest people in Russia.
Suleiman Abusaidovich Kerimov was born on March 12, 1966 in Derbent (Dagestan). In 1983 he graduated from high school (with a gold medal) and entered the construction department of the Dagestan Polytechnic Institute. After the first year, he was drafted into the army (deferment for full-time university students was then cancelled). In 1984-1986 he served in the Strategic Missile Forces. He received the rank of senior sergeant and was the head of the Strategic Missile Forces crew. In the army I did a lot of sports - I became the champion of the division in kettlebell lifting.
Returning from the army in 1986, Kerimov transferred to the Faculty of Economics of the Dagestan State University (DSU). During his studies, he was deputy chairman of the university trade union committee. In 1989, he graduated from high school with a diploma in “Accounting and Business Analysis” and went to work at the Eltav plant of the Ministry of Electronic Industry, one of the best enterprises in the defense industry. He worked at the plant until 1995, rising from an ordinary economist to assistant general director for economic issues.
In 1995, thanks to the established circle of acquaintances among Moscow businessmen and officials, Kerimov received an offer to become deputy general director of the Soyuz-Finance company. This Moscow company worked in the domestic aviation business, raw materials industries and the banking sector. Kerimov accepted the offer.
In April 1997, Kerimov became a researcher at the International Institute of Corporations (Moscow), and in February 1999 he was appointed vice president of this non-profit organization.
It was in the 1990s that Kerimov, according to media reports, earned his initial capital. In October 1998, for $50 million, Kerimov acquired 55 percent of the shares of the investment company OJSC Nafta-Moscow (traded oil and petroleum products, was created on the basis of the Soyuznefteexport association) from its management, and within a year increased his stake in the company to 100 percent] and so became the owner of the company.
In December 1999, Kerimov was dismissed from the post of vice-president of the International Institute of Corporations in connection with his election as a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (he entered the Duma of the third convocation on the federal list from the Zhirinovsky Bloc).
Having become a deputy, Karimov did not retire. According to his friends, he still had full control of his company, and the source of Kerimov’s capital was the purchase of assets. At that time, according to media reports, a “soft” (without affiliated structures) business alliance developed between Kerimov and Roman Abramovich, and later business relations were established with the owner of Basic Element, Oleg Deripaska (according to some reports, the alliance existed by November 2006).
In 2000, Nafta-Moscow bought the Varyeganneftegaz company. In 2001, Kerimov, together with the structures of Abramovich and Deripaska, received a share in the business of Andrei Andreev, which consisted of more than a hundred companies: Avtobank (by 2006 it became part of the Uralsib corporation), Ingosstrakh, Ingosstrakh-Russia Insurance Company (now Russia"), Ingosstrakh-Soyuz Bank (now Soyuz), Nosta and others. At the same time, Kerimov’s company, which was once one of the largest oil traders in Russia, moved further and further from its original activities and in 2002 practically curtailed oil trading.
On December 7, 2003, Kerimov was re-elected to the State Duma. He entered the Duma of the fourth convocation on the federal list from the LDPR. The deputy was appointed deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Physical Culture and Sports, and was also included in the security committee.
At the end of 2003 and in 2004, Nafta began buying land in the Moscow region on Novorizhskoye Highway. On these lands it was planned to build 2.7 million square meters of luxury housing and entertainment complexes. The cost of the project was estimated at $3 billion. The project was named the private city "Rublevo-Arkhangelskoye". By 2006, it already occupied 430 hectares of land.
In November 2005, the International Federation of United Wrestling Styles (FILA) presented Kerimov with one of the most prestigious awards - the “Golden Order”. FILA President Rafael Martinetti expressed a desire to personally present the award to the deputy in order to “express gratitude and respect to the person who supports wrestling in Russia and around the world” (by 2005, Nafta-Moscow became the general sponsor of the Russian national freestyle wrestling team).
At the end of 2005, Nafta bought Polymetal, Russia's second gold mining company, for $900 million and planned to list about 25 percent of its shares on the stock exchange. In February 2006, Kerimov decided to turn Nafta-Moscow into a full-fledged investment company, turning it into a leading private equity fund.
By 2006, Nafta, according to official data, owned more than 6 percent of the shares of Sberbank (about $1.6 billion at current prices) and more than 4 percent of the shares of Gazprom ($10.4 billion), cable television operators in Moscow and St. Petersburg - Mosteleset (Nafta owns 59 percent of the shares of the enterprise) and National Cable Networks, almost 20 percent of the shares of Bin-Bank, two percent of the shares of OJSC MGTS and 91 percent of the shares of the Krasnopresnensky Sugar Refinery Plant (in August 2006, shares of the plant, bought by Nafta from two rival companies were sold to the PIK group (according to media reports, Kerimov made money on resale.) In addition, the company owned 50 percent of the shares of the Mercado supermarket chain.
By that time, resale transactions, including in the real estate market, had become Kerimov’s strong point. In April 2006, his Nafta became a co-owner of Mosstroyekonombank, which owns Smolensky Passage, in June it gained control of the Razvitie SEC, which unites three construction companies, and in July notified the mayor of Moscow that it owns 17 percent of the holding's shares." Mospromstroy". None of these acquisitions remained with Nafta: Development was bought by Deripaska's Basic Element, Mospromstroy and Mosstroyekonombank - the BIN group.
In May 2006, Kerimov headed the Board of Trustees of the Russian Wrestling Federation. According to the president of the federation, Mikhail Mamiashvili, the decision to establish a Board of Trustees and appoint its head was made because, for the effective implementation of the tasks facing the Russian Wrestling Federation, long-term interaction with state sports management bodies and large national business structures has become crucial.
Soon after this, information appeared in the press that the Dynamo football club could be bought by Kerimov, since the owner of this club and the Fedcominvest company, Alexey Fedorychev, intended to completely abandon his sports business in Russia. This information was based on the fact that Kerimov had already tried to enter the football business more than once. In 2004, representatives of Nafta-Moscow negotiated the purchase of a controlling stake in the Italian Roma (the deal did not take place); a little later, Kerimov almost concluded an agreement with the government of the Moscow region on financing the Saturn football club (a deal worth 60 million dollars fell through at the last moment). In 2005, the Nafta-Moscow company became one of the sponsors of the Russian Football Union.
In July, Kerimov, together with Deripaska and Abramovich, acquired a stake in the state oil company Rosneft (the company that at the end of 2004 bought the former subsidiary of the Yukos oil company, Yuganskneftegaz). And in August 2006, reports appeared in the press that Nafta-Moscow intended to buy out the debts of NK YUKOS (On August 1, the Moscow Arbitration Court declared YUKOS bankrupt, and from that moment on, any third-party investor could pay off creditors " Yukos" to actually gain control over its assets). It was alleged that Kerimov negotiated such a possibility with Yukos President Stephen Theede. Later, the Nafta press service officially denied these reports.
In mid-November 2006, journalists learned that Kerimov had decided to start a hotel business in Moscow. On November 21, 2006, the Nafta company and the Moscow government announced the creation of the United Hotel Company OJSC (authorized capital - $ 2 billion), to which the shares of more than 20 hotels on the city's balance sheet were transferred (including Balchug, Metropol ", "National" and "Radisson-Slavyanskaya"). It was assumed that participation in the project would make Nafta one of the leaders in the Moscow hotel market.
In the list of the richest people in the world compiled by Forbes magazine in 2006, Kerimov took 72nd place. His fortune, according to the magazine, reached $7.1 billion. In addition, according to media reports, back in August 2005, Kerimov became one of the 50 richest Russians who have their own aircraft - he purchased a BBJ airliner (a business version of the Boeing 737-700, worth approximately $50 million).
On November 25, 2006, Kerimov was in a car accident. According to the newspaper Nice Matin, the car in which the deputy and his companion were driving along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice crashed into a tree and caught fire. Kerimov was taken to the specialized hospital de la Timone in Marseille with severe burns. According to eyewitnesses of the accident, he managed to get out of the car himself and tried to knock out the flames from his clothes. The businessman's companion, TV presenter of the STS channel Tina Kandelaki, according to journalists, suffered less. She was taken to Saint-Roch Hospital and discharged the same day.
Sources close to Kerimov told reporters that his life was not in danger. At the same time, an employee in the management of the hospital de la Timone told Vedomosti that Kerimov was connected to an artificial respiration apparatus and was in an induced coma. The doctor did not predict the patient’s condition, saying only that Kerimov “is stable and is under medical supervision.” It was also reported that in addition to burns, the deputy also received a traumatic brain injury. As for Kerimov’s companion, according to Alexander Rodnyansky, president of CTC Media (the company where Kandelaki works), on November 26 she was already in Moscow.
Initially, the investigation assumed that Kerimov, who was driving the car, lost control when he overtook. The police were inclined to this version because the speed limit on the embankment was 50 miles per hour, that is, about 70 kilometers per hour. According to the police, as a result of Kerimov's maneuver, the car - a Ferrari Enzo, worth 675 thousand euros - hit the pavement, then it was thrown into a tree, and the impact hit the gas tank.
Kandelaki did not confirm her participation in the road accident for some time, insisting that she had not been to Nice at all, but was at home in Moscow because she had contracted the mumps. Later, the TV presenter admitted that she was with Kerimov in his car, and added that she told about the mumps only to hide her relationship with the deputy. Kandelaki told reporters that a man suddenly jumped out onto the road in front of Karimov’s car. To avoid hitting him, the deputy turned the steering wheel sharply, and this caused the accident.
On December 5, 2006, the Belgian newspaper RTL, citing a representative of the Belgian Ministry of Defense, announced that Kerimov was transported to the Queen Astrid military hospital in Brussels. According to the publication, Kerimov was transported to Belgium at the request of Professor Jean-Louis Vincennes from the Erasme hospital, who even asked the Belgian Defense Minister Andre Flahaut to allocate “as an exception” a specially equipped aircraft and a team of Belgian military doctors to transport “one patient.” In addition, the professor promised that all costs associated with transportation “will be fully reimbursed by the patient or his relatives.”
On January 24, 2007, it became known that Kerimov returned to Moscow and began work. As a source close to the management of OJSC GNK (formerly Nafta-Moscow), which Kerimov owns, told the Interfax news agency, the businessman has “almost completely recovered after the accident” and “works on a daily basis and in full.”
On April 6, 2007, it became known that Kerimov wrote a statement about leaving the LDPR faction. As a representative of the State Duma Committee on Regulations stated, Kerimov did not justify his decision in any way. According to the Rules Committee, Kerimov did not write any additional statements about joining another Duma faction. On the same day, it became known that deputy Oleg Malyshkin, who ran for the presidency of Russia in 2004 from the LDPR, left the faction (and at the same time the LDPR party). The parliamentarian told reporters that he intends to continue to remain an independent deputy. Vice Speaker of the State Duma, leader of the Liberal Democrats Vladimir Zhirinovsky, commenting on Kerimov’s departure, told reporters that the reason for his departure from the faction was a gross violation of party discipline. According to Zhirinovsky, the deputy did not take proper part in election campaigns in his region.
On April 12, 2007, the media reported that Kerimov wrote another statement - this time about joining the United Russia faction (its consideration was scheduled for April 17).
On April 19, 2007, the Russian version of Forbes magazine published a ranking of the richest citizens of Russia. The list of the hundred richest Russians was headed by Chukotka Governor Roman Abramovich, whose fortune by the spring of 2007 reached $19.2 billion. Kerimov took seventh place with $12.8 billion.
On May 11, 2007, it became known that the presidium of the United Russia faction decided to accept the deputy into the faction. Formally, the issue of accepting Kerimov should have been discussed at a meeting of subgroups of factions, but in fact the issue could already be considered resolved.
In December 2007, Kerimov was elected as a representative of the People's Assembly of Dagestan in the Federation Council. His candidacy was supported by all 56 deputies present at the meeting of the republican parliament. The speaker of the Dagestan parliament, Magomed Suleymanov, proposed electing Kerimov. According to him, Kerimov is a fairly well-known politician who “provides support to Dagestan, especially to the republic’s athletes.” On February 20, 2008, Kerimov became a senator: the Federation Council confirmed his powers as a representative of the People's Assembly of Dagestan.
In June 2008, the Kommersant newspaper reported that structures controlled by Kerimov sold large stakes in Gazprom and Sberbank that they owned. The share price at the beginning of the year was $15.37 and $5.4 billion, respectively. The newspaper also reported that Kerimov’s structures “sold or are negotiating the sale” of other Russian assets of the businessman - the company Metronom AG, the operator of the Mercado supermarket chain (sold to X5 Retail Group in the fall of 2007 for $200 million), National Telecommunications (the acquirer was the National Media Group, the main shareholder of which was Bank Rossiya of Yuri Kovalchuk) and shares in the Polymetal company (the founder of the ICT group Alexander Nesis, as well as Russian financier Alexander Mamut and structures of the Czech fund PPF were mentioned as acquirers). In addition, according to Kommersant’s sources, Kerimov was going to sell the elite village of Rublevo-Arkhangelskoye, which is under construction. After the sale of land, telecommunications, metallurgical and other assets, according to the publication, the businessman should have virtually no investments left in Russia. It was also reported that Kerimov would invest the funds freed up as a result of the sale of Russian assets in foreign financial institutions (according to the newspaper, at that time he had already acquired about 3 percent of the shares of Deutsche Bank, as well as securities of Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, UBS).
However, in February 2009, information about Kerimov’s acquisitions in Russia was published. It was reported that his Nafta-Moscow became the owner of 75 percent of Glavstroy SPb, a company that in St. Petersburg owns development projects of the Glavstroy corporation (the construction division of Deripaska's Basic Element). A source close to Kerimov’s company from the Kommersant newspaper, which reported on the purchase, confirmed that Nafta-Moscow was “interested in consolidating” all shares of Glavstroy SPb LLC, whose portfolio of projects was estimated at 6 million square meters of various real estate. In the same month, it became known that the Moscow government offered Nafta-Moscow a controlling stake in Dekmos OJSC, which was engaged in the construction of the Moscow Hotel. However, Nafta-Moskva gained partial control over Dekmos OJSC only in January 2010, when it acquired 50 percent of the shares of Konk Select Partners, a company that owned 51 percent of Dekmos OJSC shares.
In March 2009, Kommersant reported that the owner of the Interros holding, Vladimir Potanin, was selling 22 percent of the shares of Polyus Gold OJSC to Kerimov's structures. The amount of the transaction was not reported, but the newspaper provided data on the value of Polyus shares based on market quotes on the date of the transaction - 22 percent cost $1.42 billion. Analysts agreed that Kerimov acquired these assets “for a certain period for further resale.” In June, the leadership of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) announced that the purchase of a stake in Polyus Gold by Kerimov's company was approved by the government commission on foreign investment. In July 2009, when Polyus Gold revealed its ownership structure, it became known that Kerimov is the beneficiary of 36.88 percent of the company's shares: it was reported that he controls this stake through Wandle Holdings Limited. Despite the fact that 24.59 percent of the shares from this block were sold under a repo transaction (a type of loan, a transaction for the sale of securities with a mandatory subsequent repurchase of securities of the same issue in the same quantity after a certain period at a predetermined, higher price - editor's note), Kerimov retained the right to vote on it. It was not reported with whom the repurchase agreement was concluded and when the businessman has the right to return these shares. In February 2010, Polyus Gold, which Kerimov actually owned together with Mikhail Prokhorov, acquired 11.4 percent of the shares of RBC Information Systems OJSC, the parent company of the RBC media holding.
Subsequently, Kerimov continued to buy up Russian development companies. Thus, in April 2009, one of the country's largest developers - the PIK group of companies - officially admitted that Nafta-Moscow had received 25 percent of its shares and submitted a petition to the FAS to purchase another 20 percent of PIK. In May of the same year, a source from the Vedomosti newspaper reported that Nafta Co. Kerimova became a co-owner of the Moscow Voentorg, and several of its representatives joined the board of directors of CJSC Trading House TSVUM, which owns Voentorg. In August, the financial director of Nafta Co. confirmed the information that Nafta Co. owns almost 100 percent of CJSC Trading House TSVUM (Voentorg). He added that the deal was closed in the fall of 2008. Amount it was not named, but Vedomosti's source reported that the department store cost Kerimov's company approximately $300 million - with the condition that it would enter the project only after the reconstruction of Voentorg was completed.
Suleiman Kerimov is the youngest child in the family. He has a brother, a doctor by profession, and a sister, a teacher of Russian language and literature. Kerimov's parents and other relatives live in Moscow. The entrepreneur's wife Firuza Kerimova is the daughter of a CPSU functionary; According to some reports, it was to his marriage with her that Kerimov owed much of his early career. According to various sources, Suleiman and Firuza have two or three children. Pop singer Natalya Vetlitskaya, who, according to some sources, has a daughter from him, was also mistakenly indicated as Kerimov’s wife. In 2008, it was reported that another passion of Kerimov, designer Katya Gomiashvili, was expecting a daughter from him.
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At the same time, as a true Eastern man, he is distinguished by his generosity and recognition of the inviolability of the institution of family.
At the same time, as a true Eastern man, he is distinguished by his generosity and recognition of the inviolability of the institution of family. A little biography A native of Derbent, Dagestan, turned 10 in March. Since childhood, the young man was fond of sports, which did not prevent him from studying well. The patronage was his father-in-law, because while still a student the young man married a girl named Firuza. She was and remains the main woman in his life, giving birth to three children: In 6 years, an ordinary economist rose to the rank of assistant general director and was transferred to Moscow to represent interests in the Federal Industrial Bank, of which the company was one of the founders.
Later he will represent Dagestan in the Federation Council. The connections he made in government agencies helped solve problems in the companies he acquired. A photo of the first beauty, singer Natalya Vetlitskaya, can be seen in the article.
The peak of her career also occurred in E. The ascent to Olympus began with a career as a dancer, and then as a backing vocalist. A few years later, the singer left the group. Before meeting with Kerimov, the woman had three official marriages and civil relationships with Vlad Stashevsky, Mikhail Topalov, Dmitry Malikov. Vetlitskaya brought to the stage the image of a socialite, which the temperamental Lezgin simply could not resist.
Romance with the singer The success of the pop diva on stage is associated with businessman Pavel Vashchekin. After breaking up with him, the singer began to experience real creative stagnation. The oligarch returned the star to the pop Olympus, investing money in her promotion. Suleiman Kerimov and his women always appeared together at social events; fortunately, his wife preferred the comfort of home to public life.
The two-year union with Vetlitskaya was no exception, creating the impression that the couple was married. On his friend’s birthday, the billionaire threw a grand party in a 19th-century estate with the invitation of world pop stars.
A pendant worth 10 thousand was presented as a gift.
In m Vetlitskaya gave birth to a daughter, Ulyana. Her real father is unknown. The intrigue is reinforced by the fact that outwardly the girl is a copy of her mother. The dizzying romance ended in a break, but as a parting gift, Kerimov left his former passion an apartment in New Riga and a plane.
Today the woman lives as a recluse in Spain, does not keep in touch with colleagues in show business and does not give interviews.
But the press managed to find out that Vetlitskaya’s affairs are still being handled by the Swiss lawyer Kerimova. Anastasia Volochkova The young Anastasia Volochkova replaced her peer. Before that, Vetlitskaya still performed and lived in Russia, so she witnessed a new romance. According to rumors, she encountered the newly-made couple in one of the restaurants, where she promised to take revenge on the ballerina by hiring bandits.
Volochkova was truly frightened and demanded that the oligarch strengthen security. Suleiman Kerimov’s women knew about his marital status, which they had to put up with. But Anastasia Volochkova made an attempt to take the billionaire away from the family, for which she paid by breaking off relations. Her problems with the Bolshoi Theater coincided with their separation.
Accident in Nice In the fall, Kerimov’s car had an accident in Nice, crashing into a tree. The airbags softened the impact, but burning fuel splashed out of the fuel tank, causing a fire.
The dazzling brunette was in the car next to the oligarch, but fortunately did not receive serious injuries. Being married to businessman Andrei Kondrakhin, the woman carefully tried to hide her relationship with the oligarch, but the fact was made public. A few years later, Kandelaki’s marriage broke up. Katya Gomiashvili At the same time, Moscow was whispering about the oligarch’s affair with the youngest daughter of successful restaurateur Archil Gomiashvili, who created the unforgettable image of Ostap Bender in the cinema.
Having received an excellent European education, Katya created her own clothing brand, Mia Shvili, with her father’s money. Things were going mediocre until an influential patron got involved. Their romance lasted 4 years, during which the girl managed to open a boutique in London, designed by world-famous designer Ab Rogers, and gain a name in Moscow by attracting celebrities such as Chloë Sevigny and Kate Moss to show collections.
It turned out that this was due to her pregnancy. The birth of her daughter Maria forced the woman to sell her boutiques, for which she received compensation of a million dollars from Kerimov. He established a monthly boarding house for the newborn and gave his ex-mistress a villa in France. Following Nastya Volochkova, the oligarch had a short relationship with actress Olesya Sudzilovskaya.
The photograph demonstrates a certain female type, to which the ladies' man is partial. But the film star’s demands turned out to be too great for him, so the couple quickly broke up.
For about two hours, the businessman affectionately stroked his companion’s hand, whispering compliments in her ear. History is silent whether this was an isolated incident, or whether they had any relationship. Today's crisis of the year has led to Kerimov's loss of more than $20 billion due to investment in Western projects. The businessman not only recovered from financial setbacks, but also again took a leading position in domestic business. Photos show that the oligarch is no longer accompanied by young beauties at social events.
This is associated with illness and the consequences of the accident in Nice. The oligarch resigned from the Federation Council and left the Duma. The last woman about whom the press wrote as the businessman’s main favorite was his daughter Gulnara, who married the son of wealthy parents named Arsen.
The oligarch arranged a luxurious wedding for her in a private golf club with the invitation of Italian and local celebrities.
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The richest people always attract attention. You can often hear about the construction of expensive yachts, the purchase of football clubs and the vacation of Russian billionaires at famous resorts. Only residents of the South of Russia, in particular, the richest people of Dagestan, prefer to remain in the shadows. But, despite the fact that it is rare to find mention in the press about the richest people of this republic, they do not go unnoticed by Forbes magazine.
Suleiman Kerimov
Thus, according to the magazine, Suleiman Kerimov, a Kremlin-friendly politician and owner of the Nafta-Moscow company, has a fortune of $7.8 billion and ranks 19th in the list of the richest businessmen in Russia in 2011. Compared to last year, his fortune increased by $3.5 billion. This richest member of the Federation Council received scandalous fame after an accident in Nice, in which he got into with the famous TV presenter Tina Kandelaki. Currently, Suleiman Abusaidovich is also the owner of FC Anzhi and seeks to change the face of Dagestan by allocating money for the construction of sports centers and football stadiums.
Gabriel Yushvaev, Sefer Aliev
In 83rd place on the list of the richest people in Russia is a native of Dagestan, Gavriil Yushvaev, his fortune is estimated by Forbes magazine at $1.2 billion. Having successfully invested in juice bottling lines known as Wimm-Bill-Dann, Gabriel Abramovich is currently a member of the board of directors of Wimm-Bill-Dann.
Suleiman Kerimov's son Said goes into big businessCompared to last year, the welfare of this Dagestani has not changed. It is noteworthy that in 1980, one of the richest people in Dagestan did not have a higher education and spent nine years in a colony, serving a sentence for robbery. In February 2011, the first stage of the deal to purchase Wimm-Bill-Dann PepsiCo was completed: the American company received 66% of the shares for $3.8 billion (42% was purchased from the founders and management of the company and 24% from subsidiaries).
It is very difficult to determine the richest (officially) Dagestanis, because you can find out either from the Forbes list or based on data from the tax authorities. However, the information provided by the richest people of Dagestan to the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Dagestan does not always correspond to reality. Thus, according to official data, in 2007, the owner of the AS empire, Sefer Aliyev, the founder of nine legal entities, owning five land plots, four houses, two dachas and garages with seven cars, received income from only one legal entity in the amount of 20 thousand rubles per month. Currently, one of the richest people in Dagestan holds the position of Minister of Land and Property Relations. And there are many such examples of “official statistics”.
Denis Dvurechensky, Samogo.Net
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Suleiman Kerimov and his women: photoKerimov Suleiman Abusaidovich and his women are a subject of interest to Russians, because we are talking about one of the richest businessmen in the country, known for his passion for the fair sex. At the same time, as a true Eastern man, he is distinguished by his generosity and recognition of the inviolability of the institution of family. 
A native of Derbent (Dagestan) turned 50 in March 2016. Since childhood, the young man was fond of sports, which did not prevent him from studying well. After going through the army and graduating from university with a degree in economics, Kerimov began his career at the Eltav plant. The patronage was his father-in-law, because while still a student the young man married a girl named Firuza. She was and remains the main woman in his life, giving birth to three children:
- Gulnara born in 1990;
- Abusaid born 1995;
- Aminat born in 2003
Over the course of 6 years, an ordinary economist rose to the rank of assistant general director and was transferred to Moscow to represent interests in the Federal Industrial Bank, of which the company was one of the founders. The topic “Suleiman Kerimov and his women” is being discussed in the press, because the aspiring entrepreneur has made a huge capital from investments in assets that have growth potential. Having entered the oil and gas industry, he became the owner of Nafta-Moskva, acquired shares of Gazprom, Sberbank, and Polymetal, subsequently selling them at a favorable price.
The appearance of Natalia VetlitskayaHaving earned initial capital in the 90s, Kerimov formally retired, becoming a State Duma deputy from the LDPR (1999). Later he will represent Dagestan in the Federation Council. The connections he made in government agencies helped solve problems in the companies he acquired. 
It was during these years that a series of novels began called “Suleiman Kerimov and his women.” A photo of the first beauty, singer Natalya Vetlitskaya, can be seen in the article. The peak of her career also occurred in the 90s. The ascent to Olympus began with a career as a dancer and then as a backing vocalist. At the age of 24, she joined the Mirage group thanks to producer Andrei Razin.
A few years later, the singer left the group. Before meeting with Kerimov, the woman had three official marriages and civil relationships with Vlad Stashevsky, Mikhail Topalov, Dmitry Malikov. Vetlitskaya brought to the stage the image of a socialite, which the temperamental Lezgin simply could not resist.
Video on the topic Romance with a singerThe pop diva’s success on stage is associated with businessman Pavel Vashchekin. After breaking up with him, the singer began to experience real creative stagnation. The oligarch returned the star to the pop Olympus, investing money in her promotion. Suleiman Kerimov and his women always appeared together at social events; fortunately, his wife preferred the comfort of home to public life. The two-year union with Vetlitskaya was no exception, creating the impression that the couple was married. On his girlfriend’s 38th birthday, the billionaire threw a grand party in a 19th-century estate with the invitation of world pop stars. A pendant worth 10 thousand dollars was presented as a gift.
In 2004, Vetlitskaya gave birth to a daughter, Ulyana. Her real father is unknown. The intrigue is reinforced by the fact that outwardly the girl is a copy of her mother. The dizzying romance ended in a break, but as a parting gift, Kerimov left his former passion an apartment in New Riga and a plane. Today the woman lives as a recluse in Spain, does not keep in touch with colleagues in show business and does not give interviews. But the press managed to find out that Vetlitskaya’s affairs are still being handled by the Swiss lawyer Kerimova. 
The young Anastasia Volochkova replaced her the same age. Until 2009, Vetlitskaya was still performing and living in Russia, so she witnessed a new romance. According to rumors, she encountered the newly-made couple in one of the restaurants, where she promised to take revenge on the ballerina by hiring bandits. Volochkova was truly frightened and demanded that the oligarch strengthen security.
Suleiman Kerimov’s women knew about his marital status, which they had to put up with. But Anastasia Volochkova made an attempt to take the billionaire away from the family, for which she paid by breaking off relations. Her problems with the Bolshoi Theater coincided with their separation.
Accident in NiceIn the fall of 2006, Kerimov’s car was involved in an accident in Nice, crashing into a tree. The airbags softened the impact, but burning fuel splashed out of the fuel tank, causing a fire.
Suleiman Kerimov is one of the richest people in RussiaThe businessman, engulfed in flames, fell to the ground, trying to extinguish his flaming clothes. Teenagers playing baseball on the lawn came to his aid. This saved his life, although French doctors fought for it for a long time. Today, the incident is reminded of the skin-colored gloves that the businessman has been wearing since then. 
What does this have to do with the story called “Kerimov Suleiman Abusaidovich and his women”? A photo of TV presenter Tina Kandelaki spread across the media. The dazzling brunette was in the car next to the oligarch, but fortunately did not receive serious injuries. Being married to businessman Andrei Kondrakhin, the woman carefully tried to hide her relationship with the oligarch, but the fact was made public. A few years later, Kandelaki’s marriage broke up.
Katya GomiashviliAt the same time, Moscow was whispering about the oligarch’s affair with the youngest daughter of successful restaurateur Archil Gomiashvili, who created the unforgettable image of Ostap Bender in the cinema. Having received an excellent European education, Katya created her own clothing brand, Mia Shvili, with her father’s money. Things were going mediocre until an influential patron got involved. Katya became part of the project “Suleiman Kerimov and his women.” Their romance lasted 4 years, during which the girl managed to open a boutique in London, designed by world-famous designer Ab Rogers, and gain a name in Moscow by attracting celebrities such as Chloë Sevigny and Kate Moss to show collections. 
Her painted sheepskin coats, towel dresses and sequined swimsuits were bought up with pleasure by the “golden youth” until the girl lost interest in the modeling business. It turned out that this was due to her pregnancy. The birth of her daughter Maria forced the woman to sell her boutiques, for which she received compensation of a million dollars from Kerimov. He established a monthly boarding house for the newborn and gave his ex-mistress a villa in France.
EpisodesWhat other beauties of our time are included in the story called “Suleiman Kerimov and his women”? Following Nastya Volochkova, the oligarch had a short relationship with actress Olesya Sudzilovskaya. The photograph demonstrates a certain female type, to which the ladies' man is partial. But the film star’s demands turned out to be too great for him, so the couple quickly broke up. 
The paparazzi spotted the oligarch's seclusion in the Stork restaurant with the beautiful Zhanna Friske. For about two hours, the businessman affectionately stroked his companion’s hand, whispering compliments in her ear. History is silent whether this was an isolated incident, or whether they had any relationship.
Today's dayThe 2008 crisis led to Kerimov losing more than $20 billion due to investment in Western projects. The businessman not only recovered from financial setbacks, but also again took a leading position in domestic business. However, today the topic “Suleiman Kerimov and his women” is practically closed. Photos from 2016 show that the oligarch is no longer accompanied by young beauties at social events. This is associated with illness and the consequences of the accident in Nice. In 2016, the oligarch resigned from the Federation Council and left the Duma. Previously, he left his favorite brainchild - the Anzhi football club.
The last woman about whom the press wrote as the businessman’s main favorite was his daughter Gulnara, who in 2013 married the son of wealthy parents named Arsen. The oligarch arranged a luxurious wedding for her in a private golf club with the invitation of Italian and local celebrities.
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“You love money, but I have a lot of it, and I part with it easily”
Suleiman Kerimov (according to his entourage)Suleiman Kerimov became, as many experts believe, the true cause of the “potassium war” between Belarus and Russia; it was because of Kerimov that the decision was allegedly made to organize the United Football Championship (UCF) at all costs, which we will talk about separately. . And also - a scandalous accident in a luxury supercar with Tina Kandelaki, fifteen billion (at least) dollars of personal assets at the peak of her business career and many, many, and even too many other aspects. The success story of this man is quite worthy of attention.
StartSuleiman Abusaidovich Kerimov was born on March 12, 1966 in a far from simple family in Derbent (Dagestan): his mother held a very significant position in Sberbank, and his father was an employee of the criminal investigation department. In the North Caucasus, a child with such parents was automatically guaranteed a secure life, both then and today.
Suleiman was a sporty and intelligent child: he was involved in weightlifting, wrestling, and had obvious inclinations in the exact sciences. Admission to the Polytechnic Institute (not in Moscow - in Dagestan) after school ended a year later with conscription into the army and service in the Missile Forces and, by the way, their elite unit. After the army, Kerimov resumes his studies, but is transferred to the Faculty of Economics, where he meets his future wife Feruza. Feruza’s father was a match for Suleiman’s own parents: a prominent party worker who helped his son-in-law take the position of economist at the prestigious Dagestan enterprise Eltav. The plant produced products from a category of great shortage - electronic equipment. In 1993, this successful enterprise needed its own bank. This was created and received the name “Federal Industrial Bank” (Fedbank), its representative was sent to Moscow. The representative was none other than Suleiman Kerimov.
Moscow. Great startAfter a couple of years of Moscow life, Suleiman Abusaidovich became the general director of the Soyuz-Finance company. In 1998, the businessman invested fifty million dollars in acquiring a controlling stake in the future Nafta-Moscow holding. After another 2 years, cooperation with Roman Abramovich and Oleg Deripaska allows Kerimov to receive part of the profits from companies such as Ingosstrakh, Avtobank, Nosta and others - no less successful. Stop! Here we need to analyze what is happening in much more detail.
FedprombankAs we remember, Suleiman Kerimov was in Moscow a representative of Fedprombank, created for the Eltav plant. His “countrymen” helped the Dagestan bank extremely actively, as a result of which the financial institution quickly grew and developed. And Kerimov actively bought his shares. At the same time, the charismatic businessman acquired useful connections in the Russian capital, tried to seek happiness in large and new projects, and even took part in the sale of Vnukovo Airlines. True, the Accounts Chamber had many uncomfortable questions about the deal, but Suleiman Abusaidovich avoided trouble.
Over the course of “a couple of years,” the purchase of shares in an ever-growing bank gave excellent growth to the initial capital of the future billionaire.
Oil and Naphtha. Nafta-MoscowThe end of the 90s in Russia was the era of a great war for resources.
Kerimov Suleiman AbusaidovichAt that time, Suleiman Kerimov did not yet have sufficient “muscles” in business for large wars, so he concentrated his efforts on a relatively “small” object by the standards of billionaires - the Varieganneft company, which, of course, dealt with oil. Having won the property, Kerimov did what he would do in the future with all captured assets: he sold it (in this particular case, to Mikhail Gurtsiev).
And then there was the Nafta company. Suleiman Abusaidovich got this once powerful flagship of the business “on the cheap”: for $50 million in 1998. The businessman acted in the style of Sam Zell's "Bone Dancer", taking advantage of other people's problems.
Remark: Nafta was initially headed by CEO Anatoly Kolotilin. His son worked at the Unibest bank, through which Kolotilin thought it was profitable for his family to circulate money. But - 1998, crisis. Unibest collapsed, and Nafta lost $400 million of its funds because of this and still remained $100 million in debt to Surgutneft. In a word, Nafta would be happy to sell itself to anyone, just to resolve the issue of its debts.
Suleiman Abusaidovich did not like trading oil. The assets of the company, purchased for 50 million, were quickly sold by Kerimov for $400 million. And then a new campaign for money began.
Raiding and takeovers: find the differences if you have enough healthNow this is called a “hostile takeover”, no one goes to the law enforcement agencies to complain about anything, silence remains. But behind such a businesslike name were hidden boys with bats and crowbars, decisions of courts in very distant regions on the appointment of new boards of directors, criminal cases against intractable owners and things that are generally not customary to talk about out loud.
year 2001. Avtobank was lucky with the assets of dozens of promising enterprises, including an entire iron and steel plant, Ingosstrakh, Ingosstrakh-Soyuz, etc. I was unlucky with something else: the attention of the three main sharks of that time: Roman Abramovich, Oleg Deripaska and, of course, Suleiman Kerimov. The latter eventually won, and the owner of Avtobank, Andrei Andreev, according to him, received nothing except the prefix “ex” to the status of the owner.
In 2005, Kerimov already became the owner of billions of dollars, but still begins the hunt for another object: Mosmontazhspetsstroy, Glavmosstroy, Mospromstroy - all three corporations were part of the Razvitie SEC, whose office was located a couple of hundred meters from the Kremlin . But cute boys with heavy bats and crowbars came to visit this office, while Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov demonstrably demonstrated: “Come on, it’s a simple economic dispute that has nothing to do with us.” True, it was Luzhkov himself who asked Suleiman to “sort out a little” with the presumptuous leadership of Development, who loved forceful methods. Kerimov “figured it out,” very quickly reselling the extracted object for $80-85 million.
Forbes once wrote that the businessman’s acquaintances often mentioned one ethnic trait of Suleiman Abusaidovich: he certainly strove to take what was “bad,” and he needed forceful actions psychologically. Hot Dagestan mentality of a calm, pretty businessman.
Investing in RussianIf Kerimov had relied on “takeovers” alone, he would not have been the Kerimov he is.
Do you remember how it all began in Moscow? Connections and investments in your own bank. And also my mother, who worked at Sberbank. It was along this line that Suleiman Abusaidovich began to build an interesting game.
It’s one thing to buy shares in Fedprombank, which has enough of its own capital, but it’s another thing to buy “bundles” of shares in Gazprom and Sberbank of Russia. From 2004 to 2006, the cost of the first increased by 4 times, and the second - by all 12, and the businessman during this period (or rather, at the beginning) already managed to buy 4.25% and 5.26% of their shares, respectively. How? Very simple. He borrowed money and bought shares with it. And he left as collateral... Purchased shares. The shares rose in price, the amount of collateral increased, the opportunities grew - and so on in a circle.
And who borrowed, you ask. Well, first VEB, then “some other” banks. But the bet was made on Sberbank. It was so simple: you take money from Sberbank, buy its shares, leave them as collateral - and again buy shares from it. All risks go to Sberbank, all profits... That's right.
Filaret Galchev and Vadim Moshkovich worked with Sberbank according to a similar scheme, but it was to Kerimov that this bank paid real curtsies. For example, Sberbank does not consider it possible to issue more than 25% of its capital to one lender. “Nafta” approached the limit and, when it seemed that it was absolutely impossible to take out new loans, the rule worked: if it is impossible, but it is strongly necessary, then it is possible. Since 2005, the company ZAO New Project took out loans instead of Nafta-Moscow, and although the owner was the same, the bank did not notice this. Why? Firstly, business in Russian allows this, and secondly, re-read the words in the epigraph again.
In 2007, it became clear that Sberbank of Russia was coming under the control of German Gref. Kerimov repays loans (which eliminated the awkward questions “who sanctioned?”, “who will be responsible?”, etc.) for 4 billion dollars and leaves himself a huge profit.
In addition, there is another state bank that is ready to lend to a dear client with all generosity - VTB. Maybe Kerimov’s connections at that moment were already extremely powerful, or maybe it was just an accident and VTB credited all the businessman’s ideas without a second thought and “just like that.”
Will foreign countries help us?Indeed, it’s somehow frivolous: everything is Russia and Russia. But what about the expansion of capital to the West? In fact, the question was not the desire of Kerimov himself: he wanted, he believed that “there will be more there.” By 2006, his business was going so well that he could take on the world. But... “There” were not particularly in a hurry to cooperate with the oligarch “from the dashing Russian 90s.”
And here we must certainly introduce a new character: Allen Wine was not just a top manager, but a director of the Russian branch of Merrill Lynch. Later he met Kerimov, they struck up a friendship, and over time, a partnership. Wine leaves Merrill Lynch and heads one of the oligarch’s structures, the Millennium Group. Vine became Kerimov’s guide to the West. He will be his translator and the “key” to enter those offices in which the young and rich Dagestani was not particularly wanted to be seen before.
The task was simple: Morgan Stanley was the first to decide to check the “purity” of Kerimov’s assets. This decision of the bank was partly due to the fact that Wine and the head of MS, John Mack, were old friends, and partly due to the natural charisma of the oligarch. In addition, no one dug very hard, and it was impossible to find real buyers for a number of transactions. After the first “due diligence”, 12 more banks in Europe and the USA began to cooperate with Suleiman Abusaidovich.
At this time, a lover of fast driving and thrilling experiences gets into a serious accident together with Tina Kandelaki. A businessman receives severe burns, he is treated in the best clinics in the world, he maintains the business rhythm against all odds and partly thanks to a special silicone suit.
From 2007 to 2008, Western bankers helped the oligarch sell off assets in Russia, buying assets abroad. 26 billion were received, 20 billion went to debts and other expenses, 6 billion went “as change.”
The package of new acquisitions by Suleiman Kerimov looked like an exhibition: there were shares of almost all structures with large assets and a big name. Deutsche Bank, British Petroleumm, Royal Bank of Scotland, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, E.On, Deutsche Telekom, Barclays, Boeing, Credit Suisse, Fortis and more, more, more...
Then it was a big game, Kerimov became the largest private shareholder in the history of Morgan Stanley itself, he began to play a significant role in voting in the key concerns of the planet. And then there was ruin and revival, a conflict between Moscow and Minsk due to the actions of a businessman and the epic with Anzhi Makhachkala, the story of the OC and other scandals. No one has written about much of what we will tell before, but this will be in the next article.
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Suleiman Kerimov gave his son an airportThe senator is actively transferring business assets to the 21-year-old heir Said Kerimov.
When Suleiman Kerimov first created a charitable foundation named after himself, he promised to “help socially vulnerable and needy young people.” However, the only young man today who has fully experienced the generosity of Suleiman Abusaidovich is his son Said, to whom the tidbits of Kerimov’s business empire are written.
Suleiman KerimovSuch alienation is the best choice for a senator who simultaneously wants to do business and sit in the upper house of parliament. The last of the assets transferred to Said Kerimov was the Makhachkala airport.
Cinema and "Polyus"
The fact that the son of a senator from Dagestan, 21-year-old Kerimov Jr., became the main shareholder of the Makhachkala International Airport company became known from the SPARK-Interfax database. On January 11, 2017, 99.5% of the shares of the Grandeco company, which owns the airport, were transferred to it.
A representative of the Makhachkala airport confirmed that Grandeco is the owner of the airport, refusing to name the owners of the company. Employees of the press services of Grandeco and Suleiman Kerimov’s holding company Nafta-Moscow did not comment on information about the owners.
By the age of 21, the MGIMO graduate (according to the institute’s website, Said Kerimov was supposed to receive his diploma in the summer of 2016) already had two large assets, including the largest gold mining company in Russia, Polyus, which he became the owner of in April 2015. Previously it belonged to the Suleyman Kerimov Foundation. In January 2017, Polyus received a license to develop Russia's largest gold deposit, Sukhoi Log.
Said Kerimov also owns the Cinema Park cinema chain, which he bought from Vladimir Potanin in 2014. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed, but, according to experts, it could be $300-400 million. In March 2016, it became known that Kerimov Jr. decided to expand this business by purchasing the Formula Kino chain, but the negotiations were not successful. In mid-January 2017, as media reported, businessman Alexander Mamut became interested in the Cinema Park network. Mamut's representative declined to comment.
At the end of 2016, Forbes magazine estimated Suleiman Kerimov’s wealth, excluding the airport, at $1.6 billion (the total value of Polyus and Cinema Park). It was not possible to obtain an estimate of the cost of the airport at the time of publication.
Sky of Makhachkala
The joint stock company Makhachkala International Airport became the airport operator in 2014, according to a message on the airport’s website. Before that, it was owned by the Dagestan Airlines company, which was deprived of its license to fly in December 2011 by the Federal Air Transport Agency. In 2012, Nafta-Moscow, affiliated with Kerimov, became interested in the airport. And on September 11, 2013, the arbitration court of the republic declared the Dagestan Airlines company bankrupt, all its property was put up for auction, it follows from the case materials. According to the file of the arbitration courts of Moscow and Dagestan, in 2012-2013, Dagestan Airlines was a defendant in a bankruptcy case, one of the plaintiffs in which was Arolia Holdings, affiliated with Nafta-Moscow.
The auction took place in June 2014, with two companies participating. The first application came from Makhachkala International Airport OJSC, the main owner of which was then Doxa Investments Ltd, registered in the British Virgin Islands. The second application was submitted by the Northern Sea Route Bank (SMP Bank OJSC) of Arkady and Boris Rotenberg. The auction took place in one step, the asset went to the Makhachkala International Airport company for 300 million rubles. A bank representative did not comment on participation in the auction and interest in the asset.
Formally, at that time there was no connection between Kerimov and Doxa, but in October 2016, the FAS agreed on the transfer of shares from offshore to Grandeco, which belonged to Said and Suleiman Kerimov on a parity basis, RBC reports.
OJSC Makhachkala International Airport has not yet disclosed financial indicators for 2016. However, according to the company’s accounting report, in 2015 its revenue amounted to only 632.2 thousand rubles, net profit - 3.27 thousand rubles.
In 2016, 869.2 thousand passengers passed through the airport - 23% more than in 2015, according to the company’s message. In 2016, the airport served 7.7 thousand flights, 9% more than in 2015. The capacity on domestic lines is 200 passengers per hour, on international lines - 60 passengers per hour. Every day, eight to ten planes fly from the airport to Moscow, flights to St. Petersburg are made four times a week, and from here you can also get to Surgut, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, Kazakhstan and Turkey.
What was Kerimov Sr. selling?
In 2009, Kerimov bought the Voentorg building on Vozdvizhenka from Telman Ismailov’s AST group. At that time, the deal was valued at $300 million. In 2010, Kerimov transferred the asset to Rybolovlev’s structures in exchange for the Uralkali shares purchased from him. In 2013, Kerimov sold a 36% stake in the PIK group to businessmen Sergei Gordeev and Alexander Mamut. At that time, the transaction amount was estimated at approximately $500-600 million. Also in 2013, Kerimov sold a 21.75% stake in Uralkali to the owner of ONEXIM, Mikhail Prokhorov. The cost of the package was estimated at 115 billion rubles.
In October 2015, Kerimov sold the Moscow Hotel, which was valued at more than 10 billion rubles, to the owners of Gorbushkin Dvor, Yuri and Alexey Khotin. Later, in August 2015, Kerimov sold the Fashion Season gallery located in the hotel to the Khotins. In July 2016, Kerimov was interested in purchasing 17% of UC Rusal from ONEXIM, but after some time he left the race, giving way to Sual Partners of Viktor Vekselberg and Leonid Blavatnik.
In December 2016, Kerimov Sr. said goodbye to the Anzhi football club, which he had owned since 2011, handing it over to the president of Dynamo Makhachkala Osman Kadiev with all debts. From 2010 to 2013, the football club was an unprofitable asset, but at the end of 2014 it turned out to be the most successful sports business in Russia: profit for this period amounted to 4.2 billion rubles.
As the Ruspres agency previously reported, before leaving Russia last year, the Fitch rating agency assigned Said Kerimov's Polyus company a long-term rating at the speculative class level of "BB-" (the level of creditworthiness is below sufficient) with a negative outlook. The rating was later withdrawn, officially for “commercial reasons.” It is worth noting that the low rating closed the possibilities for Polyus to invest NPF funds.
Definition: “Brand fakers are oligarchs,
who have affairs exclusively with stars"
Bozena Rynska, SIM, April 2007
Their romance lasted four years. One of the richest people in Russia, the owner of Nafta-Moscow Suleiman Kerimov, generously presented Katya Gomiashvili, helping her enter the vastness of big business. But the oligarch's heart is prone to treason. The daughter of the famous actor, who played Ostap Bender in the unsurpassed Gaidaev comedy “12 Chairs”, shared the fate of her predecessors - singer Natalya Vetlitskaya, ballerina Anastasia Volochkova, actress Olesya Sudzilovskaya, and if rumors are to be believed, then also TV presenter Tina Kandelaki and pop diva Zhanna Friske.
Billionaire Suleiman Kerimov became known to the general public after he was involved in a car accident in Nice in December 2006. Then the Ferrari driven by the oligarch crashed into a tree and caught fire. Kerimov was badly burned. Tina Kandelaki, sitting next to her, escaped with minor burns. True, the TV presenter herself later denied everything. But somehow Tina opened up:
- I met Suleiman back when he was courting my friend, actress Olesya Sudzilovskaya. Suleiman adores beautiful women - it's true. Soon he left Olesya and became interested in another friend of mine - fashion designer Katya Gomiashvili.
Sudzilovskaya was just an episode for him, and his tender relationship with Archila Gomiashvili’s daughter lasted four whole years.
Generous gentleman
In an interesting position: whose last name Catherine’s future child will bear is still unknown
When a girl is offered love and friendship by a man who exudes the smell of money, and Kerimov has as much as $14 billion, then it is impossible to refuse.
So Katya Gomiashvili could not resist, although she herself is not from a poor family. Her dad, in addition to playing Ostap Bender superbly, was also a successful restaurateur in Moscow.
Ekaterina decided to make a career as a fashion designer. With the help of her father, she opened a studio. Things were going just fine. But since Kerimov appeared next to Katya, even world-famous couturiers have become envious of her scope.
If a fashion designer has serious financial resources to promote a brand, he can be successful. “You can buy anything now,” said Vyacheslav Zaitsev, having learned that Gomiashvili was opening a boutique in London with his lover’s money. The Russian designer's store was designed by the very popular architect Ab Rogers in England. Katya's whim cost no less than 3 million euros.
In the spring of 2006, at the height of her affair with Kerimov, the “Mia Shvili” boutique appeared on the Patriarch’s Ponds in the capital; a little later she changed the sign to “Emperor Moth”. At the same time, at the end of the house on Novy Arbat, to the envy of Katya’s competitors, there was a giant banner on which the American film actress Chloë Sevigny showed off clothes from designer Gomiashvili. The next collection of the beloved oil king was advertised by top models Kate Moss and Devon Aoki. Models of this level charge from $30 to 150 thousand for a fashion show alone. For participation in an advertising campaign, rates increase tenfold.
He dusted himself off and left.
In April, Katya unexpectedly announced a sale of her latest collection and closed her boutiques. Everyone was perplexed why she closed the well-promoted business. It turned out that the reason was banal: the oligarch abandoned her. What would the modeling business be without his money? Another juicy detail was revealed: Katya is pregnant.
And just the other day, the website Spletnik.ru took apart Ekaterina Gomiashvili and her recent interview with Vogue magazine. The fashion designer shared with the glossy her longing for a certain oligarch:
He told me: “Katya, you and I are very strong. And if you do as I need, then you will be broken. To do as you need is to break me. This is impossible". ...I have no grudge against him. It just hurts when a person who has done nothing but good to you does this to you.
Spletnik.ru figured out who this oligarch is, for whom the fashion designer is suffering so much: “One version says that this is billionaire Suleiman Kerimov.” And as Spletnik.ru absolutely unequivocally hints, Katya is pregnant from him: “They say that Kerimov has fully recovered after the car accident, but there are no rumors about new hobbies. And Katya Gomiashvili is expecting a child. It is already known that it will be a girl.” Spletnik.ru knows what it is writing about, because its owner is the wife of another respected oligarch.
If the news on the site is true, then Katya had no chance. Suleiman has been happily married for a long time and has three legitimate children. He just collects beautiful women. As one of the visitors to the Spletnik.ru forum under the nickname blue eyes wrote, “Suleiman... he shook himself off, checked the box and moved on.” However, according to information from other sources, Katya was not so long ago getting ready to marry some Italian. But something didn’t work out. Perhaps the groom just found out that the girl was slightly pregnant, but from someone else.
Don Juan list
Natalia Vetlitskaya
The loudest was the affair between Suleiman Kerimov and Natalya Vetlitskaya. The businessman, without hiding, appeared with the singer at social events, and many mistakenly believed Vetlitskaya to be his wife. On her 38th birthday, he presented Natalya with a pendant with diamonds worth $10 thousand. And as a farewell gift, so that she wouldn’t be sadly remembered, he gave her a plane and an apartment in Paris.
Zhanna: Kerimov appreciated the girl’s charms
Suleiman Abusaidovich Kerimov (Lezh. Kerimrin Abusaidan hva Suleiman). Born on March 12, 1966 in Derbent (Dagestan). Russian entrepreneur and politician.
By nationality - Lezgin.
Father is a policeman.
Mother is an accountant, worked in the Sberbank system.
Suleiman is the youngest in the family. Has a brother, a doctor by profession. He also has a sister, she is a teacher of Russian language and literature.
During my school years I was involved in sports - judo and kettlebell lifting. Repeatedly became the winner of various competitions. He studied well at school, exact sciences were easy for him, and his favorite subject was mathematics.
After his first year, he was drafted into the army and served in the Strategic Missile Forces from 1984-1986. He was demobilized with the rank of senior sergeant as a crew chief.
After demobilization, he transferred to the Faculty of Economics of the Dagestan State University, from which he graduated in 1989. While studying at DSU, he was a social activist and deputy chairman of the university trade union committee.
After graduating from university, he worked as an economist at the Eltav defense plant. He worked his way up from an economist to assistant general director for economic affairs, which he became in 1995.
Suleiman Kerimov's height: 182 centimeters.
Personal life of Suleiman Kerimov:
Married. His wife’s name is Firuza, she is his classmate at DSU. Father-in-law is a former major party functionary, chairman of the Dagestan Council of Trade Unions Nazim Khanbalaev. With his help, Kerimov took the first steps in the career of a successful businessman.
Has three children.
Suleiman Kerimov, wife Firuza, children and mother
Had many high-profile novels. His scandalous personal life is constantly in the spotlight of the media.
He was in a relationship with a 1990s star singer. He openly appeared with the artist at social events. At one time they were even considered almost husband and wife. The businessman showered Natalya with expensive gifts and literally showered her with money. “He doesn’t spare anything for me. He gives me money in bags,” Vetlitskaya boasted to her friends.
After her affair with Kerimov, Vetlitskaya was left with a huge house in New Riga of 3,000 square meters. There were also rumors about an apartment in Paris and various expensive jewelry being given to her.
Natalia Vetlitskaya
Anastasia Volochkova
However, the romance with Volochkova quickly ended. Persons familiar with the situation explained this by the excessive greed of the ballerina, which pushed the businessman away from her. After breaking up with Kerimov, Volochkova began having problems in the theater.
Nastya tried to return her rich lover, even publicly confessed her love to him, but to no avail.
Anastasia Volochkova about Suleiman Kerimov
Olesya Sudzilovskaya
Zhanna Friske
The businessman had an affair with a TV presenter. This became known after Kerimov got into an accident in his Ferrari Enzo on November 26, 2006 in Nice (France) - he crashed into a tree. The airbags softened the impact, but burning fuel splashed out of the fuel tank, causing a fire. The businessman, engulfed in flames, fell to the ground, trying to extinguish his flaming clothes. Teenagers playing baseball on the lawn came to his aid. This saved his life, although French doctors fought for it for a long time. He suffered severe burns and is now forced to wear flesh-colored gloves.
Tina Kandelaki was also in the car with Kerimov. In memory of this incident, Tina received two tattoos. On the left wrist there is one of the Reiki symbols - chokurei (Japanese 超空霊 chōkurei), the meaning of which has several interpretations, one of which allows you to speed up the healing process of wounds. On the left thigh is a Chinese character that means “mother.” The tattoos are applied to burns received as a result of the accident.
Tina Kandelaki
For 4 years he was in a relationship with designer Katya Gomiashvili (born 1978), the daughter of a famous actor (played Ostap Bender in Gaidai’s “12 Chairs”).
At the time of her relationship with Kerimov, Ekaterina Gomiashvili opened a number of boutiques in Moscow and London. Top models Kate Moss and Devon Aoki took part in the advertising of Gomiashvili's clothing collections.
After breaking up with Kerimov, Ekaterina retired and went to Bali, where she gave birth to a daughter. There were rumors that this could be Kerimov’s child, but officially the father is a certain Italian.
Since 1993, he has lived and worked in Moscow - since the Eltav company and its affiliates established the Federal Industrial Bank. Suleiman was sent there to represent the interests of Eltava.
In Moscow, his circle of business acquaintances expands sharply. The energy of the young businessman, the professionalism of the manager, and the desire for independence did not go unnoticed.
In 1995, Kerimov accepted an offer to become deputy general director of the Soyuz-finance company in Moscow.
Since April 1997 - researcher at the International Institute of Corporations (Moscow).
At the end of 1999, Suleiman Kerimov bought shares in the oil trading company Nafta-Moscow, the successor to the Soviet monopolist Soyuznefteexport. Subsequently, this company became Kerimov’s main business tool.
In 2003, Nafta-Moscow received a loan from Vnesheconombank, which was invested in shares of Gazprom OJSC. Over the next year, Gazprom's share prices doubled and the loan was repaid within four months. In 2004, Sberbank provided Kerimov’s structures with a loan in the total amount of $3.2 billion, which was also invested in shares and subsequently fully repaid. By 2008, Nafta-Moscow owned 4.25% of Gazprom shares and 5.6% of Sberbank shares. In mid-2008, Kerimov completely withdrew from the share capital of Gazprom and Sberbank.
In November 2005, the Nafta-Moscow company acquired a 70% stake in Polymetal, one of the largest gold and silver mining holdings in Russia. In 2007, Polymetal successfully completed an IPO on the London Stock Exchange, after which Nafta-Moscow sold shares of the company.
In 2005, the Moscow mayor's office and one of Kerimov's structures created a joint telecommunications enterprise Mosteleset, which became the sole shareholder of the largest cable operator in Moscow, Mostelecom. In 2007, telecommunications assets were merged into the National Telecommunications holding and a year later sold to a consortium of investors led by Yuri Kovalchuk’s National Media Group for $1.5 billion.
In 2003-2008, Nafta-Moscow developed the Rublevo-Arkhangelskoye project, which was called in the press “the city of millionaires”; the idea of creation belonged to Kerimov. Subsequently, the project was sold to the president of B&N Bank, Mikhail Shishkhanov.
In the spring of 2009, Kerimov’s structures began a project for the reconstruction of the Moscow Hotel. After the reconstruction was completed, a five-star Four Seasons hotel with a shopping center, offices and apartments was opened in the building. In 2015, Belarusian businessmen the Khotin brothers bought the hotel from Kerimov’s structures.
In the spring of 2009, Kerimov’s structures purchased a 25% stake in PIK, the largest developer in Russia. At that time, the PIK group of companies needed additional financial resources: the debt reached $1.98 billion, and capitalization dropped to more than $279 million. Nafta-Moscow later increased its stake in PIK Group to 38.3%.
During the first 2 years of Kerimov’s ownership (from 2009 to 2011), PIK restored financial stability and strengthened its position in the market. In December 2013, Kerimov sold the entire stake to Russian businessmen Sergei Gordeev and Alexander Mamut.
After losses during the economic crisis of 2008-2009, Kerimov changed his investment strategy and began buying large enough blocks of shares to be able to influence the strategies of the companies in which he invests. In 2009, Nafta-Moscow bought from Vladimir Potanin for $1.3 billion a 37% stake in Polyus Gold, the largest gold producer in Russia. Later the stake was increased to 40.22%.
In 2012, the company held an IPO on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). At the end of 2015, Kerimov’s structures consolidated the rights to 95% of the shares of Polyus Gold by purchasing shares from minority shareholders. The offer was followed by the delisting of Polyus Gold from the London Stock Exchange.
In April 2016, the entrepreneur’s children, Said and Gulnara, were included in the board of directors of PJSC Polyus Gold.
In June 2010, Kerimov and his partners Alexander Nesis, Filaret Galchev and Anatoly Skurov acquired a 53% stake in the potash giant Uralkali from the previous owner Dmitry Rybolovlev. The deal was valued at $5.3 billion. For this purchase, Kerimov received a significant loan from VTB.
Being the world's largest producer of potash fertilizers, Uralkali sold products on the world market together with Belaruskali through a common sales company (BKK). In July 2013, Uralkali announced that it was withdrawing from the sales agreement with Belaruskali, reducing prices and increasing production to maximum capacity in order to increase market share. On September 2, 2013, the Investigative Committee of Belarus opened a criminal case against Kerimov and a number of Uralkali employees for abuse of power and official authority. On the evening of September 2, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus demonstratively sent a request to Interpol to put Kerimov on the international wanted list, but Interpol denied the message of the Belarusian authorities about adding Kerimov to the “red list”, seeing a political motive in the request. Subsequently, the Belarusian authorities withdrew the request and closed all criminal cases.
In December 2013, Kerimov sold 21.75% of Uralkali shares to a businessman and 19.99% to the owner of Uralchem, Dmitry Mazepin.
He was involved in investments outside of Russia, but was unsuccessful. In 2007, as markets around the world began to tumble, Kerimov reduced his stakes in Gazprom and other Russian blue chips and approached Wall Street about investing a significant portion of his fortune. In exchange, Kerimov was supposed to receive more favorable lending terms for future loans. In 2007, Kerimov invested billions of dollars in Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and other financial institutions. Although neither Kerimov nor Western banks have disclosed the exact size of his investment, it is quite significant. Forbes magazine called Kerimov the largest private investor in Morgan Stanley. By 2008, according to Forbes, he withdrew the bulk of his capital from Russia, investing in shares of foreign corporations. Analysts estimate that during the economic crisis, this decision led to the loss of almost $20 billion as a result of margin calls.
Suleiman Kerimov’s net worth: in the Forbes ranking of “Russia’s 200 richest businessmen” for 2017, he took 21st place with $6.3 billion. In 2016, according to Forbes magazine, his fortune was $6.1 billion. In previous years: 2013 - $7.1 billion; 2012 - $6.5 billion; 2011 - $7.8 billion; 2010 - $5.5 billion
Criminal prosecution of Suleiman Kerimov in France:
November 20, 2017. Later it was clarified that - several tens of millions of euros. Four more alleged accomplices were detained along with him. He was ordered to surrender his passport as a citizen of the Russian Federation to the French police and pay a bail of 5 million euros to avoid detention. In addition, he is obliged to “refuse to meet and contact with a list of persons that we cannot disclose,” the prosecutor indicated. This means that the billionaire senator will not be able to leave France.
Earlier in March 2017, the newspaper Nice Matin reported about a search at the Hier villa in France, which allegedly belongs to Kerimov. The searches took place on February 15 in connection with an investigation into the acquisition of real estate in France. According to the publication, the senator owns real estate in Antibes, the total area of which is 90 thousand square meters. The area of the villa itself reaches 12 thousand square meters. The billionaire's assistant then stated that Kerimov had no property outside Russia. According to him, the newspaper's information is unreliable.
In June 2018, he himself was transferred to the category of witnesses.
From January 2011 to December 2016, Suleiman Kerimov was the owner of the Anzhi football club (Makhachkala), which plays in the Russian football Premier League. Under him, the club acquired such famous players as Yuri Zhirkov (Chelsea London) and Roberto Carlos (Corinthians Sao Paulo), super forward Samuel Eto'o (Internazionale Milano).
In 2013, as part of the development of a new long-term development strategy for the club, it was decided to reduce the club's annual budget to $50-70 million, compared to the previous budget of $180 million per season. Most of the expensive foreign stars were sold, and the club relied on young Russian players.
In addition to financing Anzhi, Kerimov’s funds were used to build a modern football stadium, Anzhi-Arena, for 30 thousand spectators near Makhachkala, and to operate the Anzhi Children’s Football Academy.
Political activities of Suleiman KerimovIn 1999-2003, Suleiman Kerimov was a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the 3rd convocation from the LDPR, and was a member of the State Duma Security Committee. In the period from 2003 to 2007, Kerimov was a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the fourth convocation from the LDPR, and also served as deputy chairman of the Committee on Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs.
Since 2008, Kerimov became a member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, the upper house of the Federal Assembly, and represents the Republic of Dagestan.
Throughout Kerimov’s tenure as a member of parliament and then as a senator, shares of enterprises owned by him, as well as other business assets, were in trust management, and since the end of 2013 they have been transferred to the Suleyman Kerimov Foundation.
In September 2016, he was re-elected as a senator from Dagestan in the Federation Council. In this regard, he prematurely terminated his powers as a deputy in the People's Assembly of Dagestan.
