Leonid Dododschonowitsch Reiman
Leonid Dododschonowitsch Reiman ( Russian Леонид Дододжонович Рейман ; born July 12, 1957 in Leningrad ) is a Russian businessman and politician. He was Minister from 1999 to 2008 and Official Advisor to the President of the Government of the Russian Federation from 2008 to 2010 .
Life
Reiman graduated from the University of Telecommunications in Leningrad with an engineering degree in the 1970s and was chief engineer at the Leningrad Telephone Company.
From 1992 he was vice-head of the St. Petersburg state telephone company. In 1994, Reiman co-founded the telecommunications company Telecominvest and in the following years worked in the rapidly developing Russian telecommunications sector.
In July 1999 Boris Yeltsin dissolved the then State Committee for Founding the Press and transferred it to two new departments. On July 6, 1999, Mikhail Lessin was appointed Minister of Press, Tele-Broadcasting and Means of Mass Communication . Reiman became State Secretary in the State Committee for Telecommunications (Gostelekom) that same month , before being appointed chairman in August 1999 and appointed to the Russian government under Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin . In November 1999, Gostelekom also became a ministry and Reiman became Minister for Networking and Information Technology .
As part of a reorganization of the Russian government Reiman was from March to May 2004 for an initial first deputy of the then Minister of Transport and Communications Igor Levitin before it on 20 May 2004 from his time President Vladimir Putin to department chief of the newly formed Ministry of Information Technology and Communications was appointed . Reiman is considered a confidante of Putin, with whom he worked in Saint Petersburg in the 1990s.
In the course of the government reshuffle following the election of Dmitri Medvedev as president in May 2008, he lost his ministerial office to Igor Shchogolev , who was appointed Minister for Networking and Mass Communication . Reiman became Dmitry Medvedev's official advisor in his presidential administration . In September 2010 he resigned from this government office.
During and after his tenure, Reiman was repeatedly accused of pursuing private interests in the booming Russian telecommunications sector. He is said to have enriched himself in the privatization of state-owned companies and carried out money laundering . So he u. a. have shares in the mobile communications company MegaFon acquired through a straw man . Reiman has always denied these allegations.
Reiman is married and has a son and a daughter.
Honors
Reiman was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland 4th and 3rd grade.
Web links
- Reiman's biography at lenta.ru (accessed March 11, 2016)
- Biography on the Russian President's website (accessed March 11, 2016)
- Article in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung on the allegation of money laundering, December 2011 (accessed on March 11, 2016)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kremlin allegedly involved in Commerzbank affair . On July 26, 2005 on handelsblatt.com
- ↑ a b c d Министр информационных технологий и связи РФ ( Memento from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). On minsvyaz.ru (Russian)
- ^ Christoph Pauly, Jörg Schmitt: Galmonds braid . On August 1, 2005 on spiegel.de
- ^ Daniel Schäfer: Frankfurt - Bermudas - Moscow ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On May 24, 2007 on faz.net
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reiman, Leonid Dododschonowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Рейман, Леонид Дододжонович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian businessman and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leningrad |