Alexander Leonidowitsch Mamut

Alexander Mamut (2018)

Alexander Leonidowitsch Mamut ( Russian Александр Леонидович Мамут ; born January 29, 1960 in Moscow ), son of the constitutional lawyer Leonid Solomonowitsch Mamut , is a Russian lawyer, banker and investor. Alexander Mamut is also known as the banker of the Kremlin because he is said to have been involved in financing the election campaigns of Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin . The US magazine Forbes named Mamut 814th in the 2017 edition of its list The World's Billionaires with assets of 2.5 billion US dollars.

Business activity

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

In 1994 he founded the small KOPF bank, which played a crucial role in the controversial privatization of the Sibneft oil company when other bidders were prevented from bidding. Mamut also helped with Boris Berezovsky taking over Promstroibank . In connection with the money laundering affair surrounding the Bank of New York , Mamuts Sobinbank was targeted by the Fighting Against Economic Crimes Administration and the Russian domestic intelligence service FSB because it was said to have done business with the controversial Flamingo Bank without any charges being brought .

Alexander Mamut is active in the media industry. In December 2007 he and his company SUP bought the weblog provider LiveJournal , whose Russian SUP service he had operated as a licensee since 2006. One of his closest collaborators is popular blogger Rustem Adagamov . He also holds 60 percent of the Azbooka-Atticus publishing group, which was founded in June 2008 and has total sales of between 50 and 60 million US dollars. These include the publishers Azbooka, Inostranka, KoLibri and Machaon. In May 2011, Mamut bought the UK and Irish bookstore chain Waterstone's from the British HMV Group for £ 53 million.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Forbes: The World's Billionaires . Forbes. 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2018.
2. ↑ Manfred Quiring : Oligarchs Nobody Talks About . WORLD. July 18, 2000. Retrieved March 20, 2010.
3. ↑ Alexander Mamut profile: probably the most powerful oligarch you have never heard of , The Telegraph , February 4, 2011
4. ↑ BIS Moscow: Publishing Group Azbooka-Atticus . BIZ Moscow. October 20, 2008. Accessed on March 20, 2010.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Strategy of Quality , in: FAZ of May 21, 2011, page 36