https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Vekselberg
Viktor Vekselberg
Born 14 April 1957 (age 61)
Drohobych, Ukrainian SSR
Citizenship Ukraine
Russia
Cyprus
Alma mater Moscow Transportation Engineering Institute
Occupation Owner of Renova Group
Net worth Decrease US$13.6 billion (Aug 2015)[1]
Awards
Orden for Service IV.png Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (4th class)
Order of Alexander Nevsky 2010 ribbon.svg Order of Alexander Nevsky
Website vekselberg.org
Viktor Felixovich Vekselberg (Russian: Виктор Феликсович Вексельберг, Ukrainian: Віктор Феліксович Вексельберг; born 14 April 1957) is a Ukrainian-born Russian businessman. He is the owner and president of Renova Group, a large Russian conglomerate. According to Forbes, his fortune is estimated at $13.6 billion, making him the fourth richest person in Russia, as of August 4, 2015.[1]
Vekselberg is close to the Moscow Kremlin,[2][3] overseeing projects to modernize the Russian economy.[4] Vekselberg is also a longtime business partner of British-American billionaire Leonard Blavatnik, who is close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu[5] and donated $1 million to the committee for the inauguration of Donald Trump.[6] In April 2018, the United States imposed sanctions on him and 23 other Russian nationals..
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...He benefited financially from the privatization of the aluminum industry in Russia under the Yeltsin administration in 1993.[9] In 1996, he co-founded the Siberian-Urals Aluminium Company (SUAL) via a merger of the Ural and Irkutsk Aluminum Plants.[11] (SUAL would later be incorporated into United Company RUSAL, the largest aluminum company in the world). Using revenues generated from his aluminum business, he purchased a minority interest in Tyumen Oil (TNK), one of Russia's largest oil and gas companies.[10][12] In 1997,...