Yahoo: DoJ moves to seize 6 luxury properties in New York, the Hamptons, and Florida worth $75 million from sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg
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Viktor Vekselberg
Viktor Felixovich Vekselberg is a Russian-Israeli businessman and oligarch. He is the founder and chairman of Renova Group, a Russian conglomerate. According to Forbes, as of November 2021, his fortune is estimated at $9.3 billion, making him the 262nd richest person in the world. Born in Ukraine, he has Russian, Israeli and Cypriot citizenship.
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business · Russian–Cypriot oligarch and businessman (born 1957) · entrepreneur · engineer · collector · mathematician · also Viktor Vekselberg, Viktor Feliksovich Vekselberg, Viktor Felixovich Vekselberg, Victor F. Vekselberg, Vekselberg
Born 14 April 1957 · Q704450
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2023· 2 entries
Wall Street Journal: Prosecutors Charge Russian Who Managed Oligarch Viktor Vekselberg’s U.S. Properties
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2022· 3 entries
The Hill: Federal agents raid the homes of Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg
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New York Post: Feds raid Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg’s NYC apartment, Hamptons mansion
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Several properties believed to be linked to Vekselberg were searched by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security
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2021· 1 entry
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov awarded Viktor Vekselberg, among other leaders of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, for helping to bring back Russian tourists from abroad
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2020· 2 entries
As Swiss Steel) meat the covenant breach in November 2012
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When the coronavirus pandemic broke out, Viktor Vekselberg donated over 2 billion rubles to buy medical equipment, personal protective equipment, and food for socially vulnerable groups of citizens
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2019· 3 entries
Gagarin International Airport, the second greenfield airport, was put in operation in Saratov
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Reported net worth: $11.5B (as of 2019).
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A monument was opened in Moscow to commemorate resistance heroes in concentration camps and ghettos
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2018· 1 entry
Vekselberg stepped down as chairman of Skolkovo Foundation
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2017· 1 entry
Vekselberg inaugurated Platov International Airport in Rostov-on-Don, the first greenfield airport built in Russia after the collapse of the USSR
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class (2014).
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2010· 2 entries
The Federal Criminal Court confirmed that neither Vekselberg, nor Victory done any wrongdoing while building stakes in Oerlikon
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As a non-profit organization to encourage Russian innovation and openness of the Russian economy
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2009· 1 entry
Renova Group raised its stake in Oerlikon to 44
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2007· 2 entries
Standard & Poor's assigned a 'BB' long-term corporate credit rating to Renova Holding Ltd
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– 2008, Victory sold out their stakes in both companies
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2006· 1 entry
Renova Group decided to diversify its business and divest from the oil and gas sector to expand its footprint in manufacturing, hi-tech, and renewable energy
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2005· 1 entry
For Odalisque, a nude said to be the work of Russian artist Boris Kustodiev
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2004· 1 entry
Renova Group opened a branch in Zurich, Renova Management AG, as a part of the strategic plan to diversify its business towards hi-tech
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2003· 1 entry
AAR and British Petroleum (a British-American company then) merged their Russian oil assets in a 50-50 joint venture named TNK-BP, and that was the largest private transaction in Russian history
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2002· 1 entry
SUAL constructed the first private railway in Russia to connect a bauxite mine in the Komi Republic with Ural Aluminium Plant through Trans-Siberian Railroad
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1997· 1 entry
Alfa Group (owned by Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, and Alexei Kuzmichev) created with Vekselberg and Blavatnik a partnership for the acquisition of an interest in Tyumen Oil Company (TNK) that later became one of Russia'
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1996· 1 entry
Co-founded Siberian-Urals Aluminium Company (SUAL) by merging of Ural and Irkutsk Aluminium Plants into Russia's first aluminium holding company
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1988· 1 entry
After the Gorbachev administration relaxed restrictions on private business as part of its new policies of Perestroika and Glasnost, Vekselberg founded company Komvek, and in 1990, he co-founded Renova Group with college
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1979· 1 entry
Graduated from the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering
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1957· 2 entries
Born 1957-04-14.
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To a Ukrainian Jewish father and a Russian mother in Drohobych, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (although some reports state that he was born in Lviv)
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