Igor Ivanovich Shuvalov

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Igor Shuvalov (2012)

Igor Ivanovich Schuwalow ( Russian Игорь Иванович Шувалов , scientific transliteration Igor 'Ivanovič Šuvalov ; born January 4, 1967 in Bilibino , Magadan Oblast , RSFSR ) is a Russian politician. He was u. a. Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Vladimir Putin from 2003 to 2008. From 2008 to 2,018 was Shuvalov First Deputy of the Prime Minister in the Government of the Russian Federation . Shuvalov is no longer a member of the current Russian government. In May 2018, President Putin appointed him chairman of the Wneschekonombank .

Education

First, Shuvalov worked after graduating from school in 1984–1985 as a laboratory assistant at the research institute "Ekos". In 1985-87 he did his military service in the Soviet armed forces. A short time later he took up law studies at Moscow's Lomonosov University , which he graduated in 1993.

Professional background

Lawyer and Entrepreneur

After graduation, his friend Roman Anatolyevich Kolodkin helped him in 1993 to get the position of attaché in the Legal Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry , where Kolodkin was the deputy director in the same legal department. In the ministry the earnings were very modest, in the free economy the earnings opportunities were far better. So Kolodkin introduced his colleague Shuvalov to the businessman Alexander Leonidowitsch Mamut . Thanks to Kolodkin's intercession, Shuvalov started working as a legal advisor in Mamuts Consulting's ALM Consulting agency in Moscow. He held this post from 1993 to 1995. ALM stands for the initials of the company's founder Alexander Leonidowitsch Mamut. His area of ​​responsibility included the sale of offshore companies and the execution of special orders, such as the transport of cash. From 1995 to 1997 he was director of the Moscow law firm ALM. During this time, Mamut made his subordinates with the Russian entrepreneur Oleg Viktorovich Boyko , who at the time owned the Olbi (Oleg Boyko Investment) company, with Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich , who had just entered the oil trade, and with Alisher Burchanovich Usmanov , the then deputy chairman of the MAPO bank . They were all clients of the ALM law firm at the time. After Boyko was convinced of Shuvalov's entrepreneurial skills, he offered him to participate in his business. Shuvalov explicitly earned his start-up capital with Boyko.

In the following years, Shuvalov became the founder of several companies. In May 1995 he founded the wholesale company Stalker , in August 1995 the real estate company Fantime , in October 1996 the company Rando, which specializes in consumer goods, and finally in December 1996, together with his colleague from the law firm ALM Natalja Rusina, he founded ORT-Konsorzium bankow (The capital of several banks, shareholders of the company ORT , was merged).

Political career

In 1997, Shuvalov was already a dollar millionaire and wanted to distinguish himself in another area. Again with the help of his business friends, Shuvalov became head of the State Register of Federal Property at the State Committee of the Russian Federation for State Property Management in 1997. This was an agency that promoted the privatization of state property.

At the beginning of 1998 he was appointed Deputy Minister for State Property under Viktor Chernomyrdin . He was responsible for cooperation with financial institutions and oversaw the administrative activities of three ministries: science, culture and services; Mass media, cinematography and publishing; Finance and credit companies, insurance companies and foreign trade organizations. In May 1998 he became chairman of the Russian Federal Property Fund (Russian Российский фонд федерального имущества), where he was also involved in privatization tasks.

When Mikhail Kassyanov took office as head of government on May 18, 2000, Shuvalov was appointed head of the government apparatus. Kassyanov does not like to recall working with Shuvalov because he was forced on him from outside, but he claims that Shuvalov was a strict boss and that their relationship was purely business-like. Shuwalov's successor as head of the government apparatus was Konstantin Eduardowitsch Merzlikin, who got to know Shuwalov while he was still working in the ALM office. Merzlikin remembers Shuvalov as “an effective leader, a careerist in a positive sense”. At the time, Shuvalov was the loyal part of a team that pushed reforms forward. This, however, was due to the enthusiasm of the time when both the President and Prime Minister endorsed reforms. Vladimir Stanislawowitsch Milow, deputy minister for energy in 2002, was of a completely different view. Shuvalov was a clever person with economic and financial expertise, but at the same time a completely destructive person with regard to results. All the years that reforms could have been carried out, Shuvalov has tried to use this process to increase his own influence and has done nothing positive.

On May 28, 2003, Shuvalov moved to the presidential administration as one of the advisors to the then President Vladimir Putin, who made him its deputy head in October of the same year. Together with Dmitri Medvedev , who headed the presidential administration from October 30, 2003, succeeding Alexander Voloshin , Shuvalov conceptualized the future-oriented "National Projects" to promote education, health, agriculture, road construction and housing construction. After Medvedev was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister by Putin on November 14, 2005, Shuvalov remained deputy head of the presidential administration, now under Sergei Sobyanin .

Shuvalov during the WEF 2011

After his successful election as President of the Russian Federation, Medvedev dismissed his remaining counterpart Sergei Ivanov and on May 12, 2008 appointed the non-party Shuvalov and also the previous Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov as First Deputy Prime Minister. After Alexei Kudrin's resignation in September 2011, Igor Shuvalov temporarily took over the official duties of the Russian Finance Minister.

criticism

In connection with financial transactions by offshore companies , the multimillionaire was accused in the spring of 2012 of exploiting insider knowledge in these transactions and of having made very high profits in this way. Ever since Shuvalov became a Russian civil servant, he was forbidden from doing any business. However, this ban did not extend to his wife Olga Shuvalova. So Shuvalov transferred his property to a trust registered in the name of his wife. According to the "Financial Times" and the "Wall Street Journal", she earned money from sometimes problematic businesses. The Bahamas registered fund of Shuwalowa Sevenkey Ltd. made multimillion-dollar investments in large Russian companies and was a business partner of the oligarchs Roman Abramovich and Suleiman Kerimov . Sevenkey invested $ 17.7 million in Gazprom shares through Kerimov's Nafta Moskva company . Sevenkey, as a foreign company, would not have been allowed to buy the shares of the Russian gas giant directly. Over time, Shuvalova's income exceeded her husband's by a hundred times. Shuvalov denied all of this, stating that the dealings complied with Russian law and that he had always avoided conflicts of interest.

Private

Shuvalov is married and has four children (two sons and two daughters). His eldest son Yevgeny did his military service in the Pacific Fleet in 2011 and 2012 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Igor Iwanowitsch Schuwalow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Игорь Шувалов назначен председателем Внешэкономбанка (Russian)
  2. Ivan Safronow, Taisija Bekbulatowa: Вице-премьер по роскоши Как складывалась карьера Игоря Шувалова , Meduza, on July 22, 2016, accessed on May 19, 2016.
  3. Biography on neftegaz.ru: Шувалов Игорь Иванович , accessed on May 18, 2020.
  4. Ivan Safronow, Taisija Bekbulatowa: Вице-премьер по роскоши Как складывалась карьера Игоря Шувалова , Meduza, on July 22, 2016, accessed on May 19, 2016.
  5. Ivan Safronow, Taisija Bekbulatowa: Вице-премьер по роскоши Как складывалась карьера Игоря Шувалова , Meduza, on July 22, 2016, accessed on May 19, 2016.
  6. Key Kremlin figure 'quits' . On October 29, 2003 on news.bbc.co.uk
  7. Julia Smirnova: The dubious fortune of the Russian vice-premier. In: The world. Axel Springer SE, March 29, 2012, accessed on May 22, 2020 .
  8. Дети чиновников, проходившие службу в армии