Boris Rotenberg (businessman)
Boris Rotenberg | |
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Борис Ротенберг | |
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) | |
Nationality | Russian Finnish |
Occupation | Businessman |
Known for | Co-founder of SMP Bank |
Boris Romanovich Rotenberg (
Since 2014, following Russia's annexation of Crimea, Rotenberg has been subject to
Biography
Rotenberg was born in 1957 in a family of
In 2001, he and his brother founded the SMP bank, which operates in 40 Russian cities with over 100 branches, more than half of them in the
Based on his friendship with Vladimir Putin, his company became closely aligned with Gazprom.[2] Rotenberg is a member of the St. Petersburg Connection, a powerful energy lobby under the leadership of Putin.[citation needed]
He was involved in 20 construction projects for the
From July 2013
As a result of the
On 27 March 2014, both
Rotenberg was named in the Panama Papers.[16]
Rotenberg also holds Finnish citizenship.[17]
His nephew, Igor Rotenberg (Russian: Ротенберг, Игорь Аркадьевич; born September 9, 1974) is a Russian billionaire businessman.[18][19]
In January 2020, Finnish national broadcaster
On 22 February 2022, Boris along with his nephew
Motorsport
SMP Bank has sponsored auto racing teams under the brand
Rotenberg also owns BR Engineering, a race car constructor.[23]
Wealth
In January 2022 Forbes estimated his net worth to be $1.2B USD.[24] He owned a Bombardier Challenger 300 registered M-ARRH however in 2019 it was seized by Credit Suisse and marketed for sale by Boutsen Aviation due to Rotenberg having sanctions put on him.[25]
References
- ^ "#1694 Boris Rotenberg". Forbes. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
- ^ a b c d Lucian Kim (28 April 2010). "Putin's Judo Friend Says Premier Didn't Help Win Gazprom Deals". Bloomberg.com.
- ^ "UK targets three oligarchs and five Russian banks in first tranche of new sanctions - ICIJ". 2022-02-22. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
- ^ "The Sanctions Imposed So Far on Russia From the U.S., EU and U.K." SWI swissinfo.ch. Retrieved 2022-03-26.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-03-26.
- ^ Sheldon Kirshner (23 November 2015). "Russia's New Tsar". THE TIMES OF ISRAEL.
- ^ Paul Roderick Gregory (14 October 2014). "Putin's Reaction To Sanctions Is Destroying The Economy And China Won't Help". Forbes.
- ^ "Борис Ротенберг". 24SMI (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-03-30.
- ^ "Boris Rotenberg replaced Solovyev on a post of the president of FC Dynamo". Wrestling.com.ua. 18 July 2013.
- ^ Борис Ротенберг покидает пост президента (in Russian). FC Dynamo Moscow. 17 July 2015.
- ^ Saul Pope (4 May 2015). "The Unusual Career of Boris Rotenberg". Futbolgrad.com.
- ^ "Boris Rotenberg Jr, family friend of Vladimir Putin, has unexpected and mercurial rise to peak of Russian football". Telegraph.co.uk. 6 May 2015.
- ^ Valentina Pop (30 July 2014). "EU blacklists three Putin 'cronies'". Euobserver.com.
- ^ "RÈGLEMENT D'EXÉCUTION (UE) No 826/2014 DU CONSEIL du 30 juillet 2014". Eur-lex.europa.eu (in French). 30 July 2014.
- ^ D Butrin, O Shestopal, S Dementyeva (2014). Visa and MasterCard withdraw sanctions against two Russian banks. Russia Beyond the Headlines. 24 March 2014.
- ^ "Panama Papers: The Power Players". International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Archived from the original on April 4, 2016.
- ^ Kuittinen, Teppo (11 December 2014). "Suomalaisoligarkkien "karu" pakotearki: valtavia tilauksia Venäjän valtiolta". is.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ "Igor Rotenberg". Forbes. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
- Delovoy Petersburg(in Russian). Retrieved October 26, 2018.
- ^ "Boris Rotenberg hävisi kiistansa suomalaispankkien kanssa – joutuu maksamaan yli puoli miljoonaa pankkien oikeudenkäyntikuluja" (in Finnish). Retrieved March 21, 2020.
- ^ Nick Wadhams; Jennifer Jacobs (3 March 2022). "U.S. Sanctions Usmanov, Prigozhin, Tokarev, Other Russian Elites". Bloomberg News.
- ^ Russland und Belarus: Neue Sanktionen Archived 2022-04-12 at the Wayback Machine (PDF-Dokument), April 2022
- ^ "Компания Бориса Ротенберга представила новый гоночный автомобиль". Autosport.com.ru (in Russian). 2021-05-18. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
- ^ "Boris Rotenberg". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-01-15.
- ^ "Russian Billionaire Brothers Forced to Sell Private Jets Over Sanctions — Forbes". The Moscow Times. 2019-01-23. Retrieved 2022-01-15.
External links
Media related to Boris Romanovich Rotenberg at Wikimedia Commons
- Oliver Bilger: Krim-Krise, Die Angst vor dem Wirtschaftskrieg wächst, Die Zeit, 21 March 2014.