Rinat Akhmetov

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Rinat Akhmetov (2013)
Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Рінат Леонідович Ахметов
Transl. : Rinat Leonidovyč Akhmetov
Transcr. : Rinat Leonidowytsch Akhmetov
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Ринат Леонидович Ахметов
Transl .: Rinat Leonidovič Akhmetov
Transcr .: Rinat Leonidowitsch Akhmetov

Rinat Leonidowytsch Akhmetov , Ukrainian Рінат Леонідович Ахметов , Russian Ринат Леонидович Ахметов (born September 21, 1966 in Donetsk ) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician of Tatar origin. With a fortune of an estimated 5.5 billion US dollars (2018) Akhmetov is the richest person in Ukraine, he is also considered the most influential oligarch in the country.

Life

Akhmetov was born the son of a miner and a saleswoman in Donetsk . He studied economics at the Donetsk University, co-founded the Dongorbank in Donetsk in 1995 and rose to the top of one of the three big money clans in Ukraine within a short time. Akhmetov is a former professional boxer. As head of the investment company System Capital Management (SCM), Akhmetov controls large parts of the eastern Ukrainian steel and coal industry with his network of more than 100 companies; the companies belonging to SCM together employ around 300,000 people and achieved a turnover of 23.47 billion US dollars in 2012. The coal and electricity producer DTEK , which belongs to SCM , employs around 140,000 people, controls almost half of the entire Ukrainian coal market and covers a third of Ukrainian electricity production and 40 percent of distribution capacities. After acquiring the Mariupoler Metallkombinat in July 2010, the Metinvest Group , which belongs to System Capital Management, became the largest steel manufacturer in the CIS. Akhmetov is also a leader in the food industry and the transport sector. He also owns his own airline with two Airbus A319-100s and has a major influence on the regional media. In June 2011, he and his business partner Vadim Novinskij and his “Smart Holding” announced the entry into the agricultural market. To this end, they founded the HarvEast Holding, which, among other things, has over 2,000 square kilometers of land.

Since 1996 he has been president of the Shakhtar Donetsk football club . With massive financial support, Akhmetov has made Shakhtar, alongside Dynamo, the leading Ukrainian football club, which even regularly plays in the Champions League. As a gift to the city, a new five-star stadium was built in the city center according to international standards, for which a few hectares of urban forest were cut down without creating replacement areas. The Donbass Arena opened on August 29, 2009.

Akhmetov is married and has two children.

In April 2011, he acquired one of the most expensive apartments in the world in the One Hyde Park real estate complex in the London borough of Knightsbridge for a purchase price of around 156 million euros.

politics

Akhmetov is said to have financially supported Viktor Yanukovych's candidacy in the Ukrainian presidential election campaign in 2004 , although he denied support from Yanukovych after Viktor Yushchenko was elected President of Ukraine. Under the presidency of Yushchenko, since January 2005, Akhmetov's strong position in the Donetsk region initially appeared to be in jeopardy. The tax authorities searched his companies several times and in April 2005 his confidante Borys Kolesnikov was temporarily arrested. During this time Akhmetov stayed abroad for a long time. It was not until an agreement reached between Yushchenko and Yanukovych in autumn 2005 that security for Akhmetov was restored and he returned to Ukraine.

Since the parliamentary elections in March 2006 Akhmetov was a member of the Yanukovych-led " Party of Regions ". In the early elections in 2007 he won another mandate, but was notable for his frequent absence from parliamentary sessions. In the 2010 presidential elections , his influence on the Party of Regions was no longer as great. Nevertheless, he was still one of the main financiers of Yanukovych's election campaign. In the parliamentary elections in 2012 , Akhmetov no longer ran for the Verkhovna Rada . In the course of the Euromaidan protests , which led to the overthrow of Yanukovych in February 2014, Akhmetov distanced himself from both Yanukovych and the Party of Regions.

On May 20, 2014, in the wake of the crisis , he spoke in a video address against the separatists, whom he described as “ bandits and marauders ”, and called for a warning strike in the area. Since Akhmetov did not position himself clearly in the escalating conflict, he came under increasing pressure in the following months. Some of the assets belonging to his companies were destroyed during the fighting in eastern Ukraine.

Web links

Commons : Rinat Akhmetov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.forbes.com/wealth/billionaires#p_4_s_arank_-1__-1 Forbes' 2014
  2. ↑ Material about the godfather Rinat Akhmetov (Akhmetov) and the connection to the European Football Championship 2012 in Ukraine
  3. ↑ Shakhtar Donetsk: Creative collective from the miners' city ( Memento from May 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Stern from May 19, 2009
  4. ^ The opaque power game of the football tsar , Die Welt, April 23, 2014
  5. ↑ Ukraine-Nachrichten: "Metinvest" becomes the largest metallurgy company in Eastern Europe
  6. ↑ [1]
  7. ↑ Most expensive apartment in London sold. tagesspiegel.de, April 23, 2011, accessed on January 22, 2014
  8. ^ A region and its party. The Party of Regions as a Donetsk elite project Article by Kerstin Zimmer, published by the Research Center for Eastern Europe at the University of Bremen
  9. ↑ Page of the MP Rinat Akhmetov listing the initiatives, appearances and attendance ( memento of the original from October 7, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / w1.c1.rada.gov.ua
  10. ↑ Ukraine News: One hundred days presidency of Viktor Yanukovych
  11. ↑ Analysis of the parliamentary elections in 2012 in the Ukraine Federal Agency for Political Education , November 15, 2012
  12. ↑ The oligarch who dances between Moscow and Kiev ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Article by Tomas Sacher in Cicero from April 15, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cicero.de
  13. ↑ The richest oligarch calls for resistance against separatists
  14. ↑ FAZ.net: The godfather calls for resistance
  15. ↑ The Cold War of the Oligarchs , Die Welt, August 23, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Akhmetov, Rinat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Akhmetov, Rinat Leonidowytsch (full name); Ахметов, Рінат Леонідович (Ukrainian); Ахметов, Ринат Леонидович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian businessman and politician of Tatar origin
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Donetsk