[10], In 1991 he co-founded Alfa-Bank, which is one of the largest private banks in Russia. [136][137], In April 2015, LetterOne Technology (L1 Technology) was launched in London. [118], In 2013 LetterOne also formed L1 Energy, an energy investment vehicle, initially focused particularly on undervalued international oil and gas assets during the slump in oil prices. Wendi Deng, the ex-wife of Rupert Murdoch, ... Alexey Reznikovich, the head of LetterOne Technology, which is controlled by Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman… Site "Business Guide" magazine "Profile" The Dossier: Mikhail Fridman got engaged in commerce yet in the institute, where he organized informal youth club - a prototype of modern disco. [51][52] By late 1996, thanks to the success of Alfa Bank and Alfa Group, Boris Berezovsky, in an interview by the Financial Times, named Fridman and Aven as among the seven businessman and bankers who controlled most of the economy and media in Russia,[53][54][51][55][56] and who had helped bankroll Boris Yeltsin’s 1996 re-election campaign. Mikhail Maratovich Fridman (also transliterated Mikhail Friedman;[4][5][6][7] Russian: Михаи́л Мара́тович Фри́дман; born 21 April 1964) is a Russian business magnate. The man also established the Genesis Philanthropy Group along with his business partners and has been honored by the World Brand Academy with their award titled “For Creation of Successful Russian Brand”. [159] Also in 2017 Fridman, via LetterOne, invested $3 billion in Pamplona Capital Management,[114][160] a private-equity firm that was founded by Alexander Knaster, the former CEO of Alfa Bank, and which Fridman had invested in previously. [200] Forbes Russia named Fridman the Russian Businessman of the Year in 2012 and 2017. El Confidencial published a series of articles about the story of ZED’s bankruptcy, and accused Mikhail Fridman of illegal take-over by way of removing Javier Perez Dolset from business and ruining him financially. [188] He is also on the supervisory board of directors for VEON (formerly Vimpelcom)[17] and X5 Retail Group. [205][206][207] On 1 March 2006, government officials responsible for the sale of the two properties were charged with misappropriation of entrusted property in an especially large amount by an organized group. [20][26] He graduated from high school in Lviv in 1980. The couple had met while studying in Moscow and together has two children.As of 2015, Mikhail Fridman has a net worth of 14.8 billion USD. Conflicting reports put his birth date at April 21, 1964, and June 26, 1963. Meanwhile, it has been revealed that the son of Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman, 56, worth £10billion, took part in the protests. [209] In April 2018 Fridman, Aven, and Khan filed a libel suit against Steele in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia,[218][219] but the suit was dismissed with prejudice the following August. Mikhail Fridman: “The percentage of our business in Russia is falling. [23][24][25], Fridman was born in 1964 in Lviv, Ukraine, USSR, where he spent his youth. According to the decision, the judge considered that the continuation of the case against Fridman contradicted the principle of the presumption of innocence and stated that there were "no reasonable grounds to accuse the suspect as an author, accomplice or accessory." [147][148], In February 2016, Fridman's LetterOne fund invested $200 million in Uber. [157][158], In June 2017 LetterOne's L1 Retail division acquired Holland & Barrett, Europe's largest health-food store chain, for £1.8 billion ($2.3 billion). [28][107], Using the proceeds from the sale of their stakes in TNK-BP, Fridman and his Alfa Group partners Khan and Kuzmichev established the international investment company LetterOne (L1) in 2013,[110][111][112] and Fridman became the company's chairman. According to Forbes, he was the seventh richest Russian as of 2017. Holland & Barrett's owner Mikhail Fridman under pressure to inject cash into the retail chain. [145][48][146] A year later the company rebranded itself VEON, and changed its focus to mobile internet services such as banking, taxis, and messaging. 31/12/2016 - 05:00 Actualizado: 29/06/2017 - 10:53. Mijaíl Marátovich Fridman (en ruso, Михаи́л Мара́тович Фри́дман; nacido en Leópolis, antigua URSS, el 21 de abril de 1964) es un empresario, inversor y filántropo ruso.Tiene también nacionalidad ucraniana e israelí.Cofundó Alfa Group, un conglomerado multinacional ruso. [209][210][211][212][51], In May 2017 Fridman, along with fellow Alfa Bank owners Petr Aven and German Khan, filed a defamation lawsuit against BuzzFeed for publishing the unverified Donald Trump–Russia dossier,[213][214][215] which alleges financial ties and collusion between Putin, Trump, and the three bank owners. [63] X5 is Russia's largest food retailer in terms of sales. [113] LetterOne's additional co-founders were Petr Aven and Andrei Kosogov. [171][172], In 2019, Mikhail Fridman acquired a 50% stake in one of the suppliers of computing devices for the Russian defense industry via the structures affiliated with A1 investment company.[173]. [138][26] The fund also has a 13.2% share in the Turkish telecom company Turkcell,[138] which since 2005 has been hampered by a long-running feud between its three largest shareholders: Cukurova owned by Turkcell founder Mehmet Emin Karamehmet, Fridman's LetterOne via Alfa Telecom/Altimo, and Sweden's Telia Company. Fridman Spouse – Olga Fridman. [31][26][20][29] He also led a group of students who would queue for tickets at popular Moscow plays, and then use the tickets as hard currency to barter for rare goods and favours. Así es Mere: el 'súper' ruso que llega a España para ser la pesadilla de Aldi, Lidl y Dia. [227][228][195][229] In 2016 he announced that in his will, his fortune will be left to charity. He is the chairman of the supervisory board of Alfa Group, one of the largest private investment companies in Russia. Fridman’s parents belonged to the Communist Party, and worked as engineers in the defense manufacturing industry. [83] Altimo's ownership of the stake was finally maintained in 2007. In July 2020, Justice Warby from the Queen’s Bench Division of the British High Court of Justice ordered Steele to pay damages to Aven and Fridman who Steele claimed had delivered "large amounts of illicit cash" to Vladimir Putin when Putin was deputy mayor of St. Petersburg. [20] In February 2001, he became a member of the Council for Entrepreneurship at the Government of the Russian Federation. The spill of that heavy oil contaminated the Spanish coast, and caused a major environmental disaster. [216][217] In October 2017 Fridman, Aven, and Khan also filed a libel suit against the private-investigation firm Fusion GPS and its founder Glenn Simpson, who had commissioned former MI6 agent Christopher Steele to compile the dossier, for circulating the dossier among journalists and allowing it to be published. [202][203] Khinshtein also alleged a preferential loan from Fridman to Kasyanov, which Fridman denied. [114][115] Headquartered in Luxembourg,[116] the company was created to invest in international projects in energy, telecoms, finance, technology, and other sectors. [151][48], In June 2016, LetterOne prepared to expand into healthcare by launching the $3 billion fund L1 Health in the United States, for investments in the global healthcare industry. [131][127], In October 2015 Fridman and the LetterOne Group sold L1 Energy's British North Sea assets to Ineos, a Switzerland-based petrochemical company owned by Jim Ratcliffe, for $750 million. [208], In 2005, a United States district court in Washington, D.C. dismissed a 2000 libel suit by Fridman and Petr Aven against the Center for Public Integrity over an online article which included a suggestion that they had been involved in drug-running and organized crime; the federal judge ruled that there was no evidence of actual malice on the part of the publication and that Fridman and Aven were limited public figures regarding the public controversy involving corruption in post-Soviet Russia. 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Born on April 21, 1964 in Lviv, Ukraine of USSR, he is a graduate of Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, 1986 batch. [32][225] In 2015 he moved to London,[190][1][226] and by 2016 had purchased Athlone House to be his primary residence. Currently, I think, it stands at 70-80%, but over the next 10 years it … Mikhail Maratovich (Misha) Fridman was born in Lviv, Ukraine, as the only child in a middle-class Jewish family. [87][88][89][90][91][92] Richard Burt and Mikhail Fridman have a strong working relationship. Jun 10, 2020. With Russian and Israeli citizenship, in 1988 he co-founded Alfa-Group, a large multi-national conglomerate. Mr. Fridman, one of the original founders of Alfa Group Consortium, is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Alfa Group Consortium, one of the largest privately owned financial-industrial conglomerates in … Mikhail Fridman was born in Lvov. [138], The L1 Technology fund began acting as a holding company for the 48 percent stake in Vimpelcom owned by Fridman and his partners. [60][61] Through a merger with the Pyatyorochka (also transliterated Pyaterochka) supermarket chain, which had been founded in St. Petersburg in 1999 by Alexander Girda and Andrey Rogachev,[60][61] Alfa Group founded the X5 Retail Group in 2006. [62][60][61] X5 acquired another grocer, Kopeyka, for $1.65 billion in December 2010. From 2011 to December 20, 2018, Dia was listed in the so-called IBEX 35 as one of 35 largest Spanish companies present in the stock market. Mikhail Fridman. He is currently the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Alfa Group and also the DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG, which is owned by the L1 Group, of which he is the Chairman. Ukraine native German Khan controls Alfa Group and LetterOne (Luxembourg), with fellow billionaires Mikhail Fridman and Alexei Kuzmichev. [101][102][57][103][48][104][105][106] And although TNK-BP was highly successful financially,[107] Fridman's relationship with BP during the TNK-BP years was contentious, and included blocking BP's 2011 planned partnership with Rosneft for Arctic oilfield exploration. Fridman married Olga, but they are separated now. Its focus was buying "struggling telecom or technology companies that require a fresh infusion of capital". https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/01/20/the-billionaires-playlist His family had enough source of income that provided well for the Fridman household. [79][80][81][82][48] James Hatt, a British telecommunications executive, represented Fridman's interests while Jeffrey Galmond, a Danish attorney, represeted Reiman's interests during deliberations between the two groups. 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