Viktor Vladimirovich Charitonin

Viktor Vladimirovich Charitonin ( Russian Виктор Владимирович Харитонин even Viktor Charitonin transcribed; * 20th November 1972 in Petropavlovsk or Novosibirsk in the Soviet Union ) is a Russian billionaire co-owner of Pharmstandard and since October 2014 co-owner of the Nürburgring .

After graduating from Novosibirsk State University in 1994, he founded the investment firm Profit House , which represented shareholders in Roman Abramovich's oil company Sibneft . He laid the foundation stone for his pharmaceutical empire in 2003 when he and Abramowitsch and Yevgeny Markowitsch Schwidler took over five ICN Pharmaceuticals pharmaceutical factories for US $ 55 million . As a pharmaceutical standard, the company became the largest pharmaceutical manufacturer in Russia. One product is the flu remedy Arbidol . Abramowitsch and Schwidler sold their shares in 2008.

In spring 2014, Charitonin took part in the Mille Miglia classic car event with a Mercedes-Benz 500 K built in 1935 . In November 2014 it was announced that he would take over shares in the Nürburgring , which had been sold by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Charitonin is one of 96 oligarchs on the embargo list published by the US Treasury Department in January 2018 ( Putin list ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://siberiantimes.com/business/others/news/n0008-billionaire-steps-in-to-save-famous-race-track/
2. ↑ Profile of Viktor Charitonin on forbes.ru (Russian; checked on March 28, 2016)
3. ↑ http://www.rhein-zeitung.de/region_artikel,-Viktor-Charitonin-ist-vernarrt-in-Oldtimer-_arid,1227313.html
4. ↑ http://www.rhein-zeitung.de/region/lokales/bad-neuenahr_artikel,-Russischer-Kaeufer-am-Ring-Region-reagiert-fasslos-_arid,1227568.html
5. ↑ Sheena McKenzie, Nicole Gaouette and Donna Borak, CNN: Full list of Russian oligarchs released by US . In: CNN . January 30, 2018 ( cnn.com [accessed January 30, 2018]).