Jelena Nikolayevna Baturina

Jelena Nikolajewna Baturina ( Russian Елена Николаевна Батурина ; born March 8, 1963 in Moscow ) is a Russian entrepreneur and billionaire as well as the widow of the former Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov .

Life

In 1991, Baturina founded the Russian company Inteco, which initially focused on the plastics sector and then established itself in the construction industry in Russia. The company received many orders from the city of Moscow in the following years: for example, the construction of 85,000 seats in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium . In 2005, Inteco sold parts of its construction company, such as cement works and its subsidiary DSK-3, which manufactured prefabricated components for house construction. At the same time, Baturina acquired shares in Sberbank and Gazprom .

Baturina owns more than 72,000 hectares of agricultural land in the Russian region of Belgorod Oblast . Over the use of this land she came into conflict with the governor of Yevgeny Savchenko Oblast .

According to Forbes magazine , in 2007 Baturina was the richest woman in Russia. Her husband, Yuri Luzhkov, whom she married in 1991, was mayor of Moscow from 1992 to the end of September 2010. They have two daughters together.

In 2010, her husband was dismissed by a decree from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev after allegations against him and his wife of corruption . In February 2011 units of the special police OMON searched the offices of Inteco. In October 2011, investigative authorities announced that Baturina had ignored subpoenas in which she was supposed to testify as a witness to payments from the Bank of Moscow on one of her accounts. Baturina currently resides mainly in Austria and the United Kingdom .

Baturina is an enthusiastic rider and president of the Russian equestrian organization Федерация Конного Спорта России .

Footnotes

1. ^ Mark Franchetti: Moscow turns on the mayor's wife in a billion. In: The Sunday Times . May 23, 2004 . 
2. ↑ Meet Russia's first billionairess . In: Russia Today . September 2, 2008
3. ↑ Peter Finn: Russian Case Shows No Holds Barred in Business and Politics . In: The Washington Post . January 16, 2006
4. ^ The World's Billionaires sorted by Rank . In: Forbes Magazine . August 3, 2007
5. ^ Benjamin Bidder: Luzhkov wife Baturina: Twilight of the gods for Moscow's concrete princess . In: Spiegel Online . October 1, 2010
6. ↑ Frank Nienhuysen: Russia: Jelena Baturina - The poor rich queen . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . October 9, 2010
7. ↑ Peter Muzik: The Oligarch of Kitzbühel . In: Wiener Zeitung . October 12, 2010
8. ↑ Andrea Hodoschek: Oligarch roll away the rubles . In: Courier . 5th December 2011
9. ^ Lyubov Pronina: Moscow Property Tycoon Rebuilds in Exile After Husband's Ouster . In: Bloomberg . April 27, 2012