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Boris Mintz complained of living on £ 10,000 a week and pressure on his family

Forbes member of the Forbes list, Boris Mintz, told the High Court of London that he needed more than £ 10,000 a week for his daily expenses (this is the amount he has the right to spend British court). Businessman believes that he and his family are under pressure

“While spending £ 10,000 a week is a significant amount for the average person, it’s not enough to cover the respondents’ daily expenses. ” So the family of Boris Mints, the owner of the O1 Group and the former shareholder of NPF Future, asked the London court to increase the amount that they are allowed to spend after the London court arrested its assets by $ 572 million according to the Bank’s non-core assets Trust. This is stated in the appeal filed in the High Court of London, with which Forbes got acquainted. Mintsy appealed the decision to arrest the assets, and the court replaced the arrest with an obligation not to alienate the property that Mintz and his sons took over in the courtroom.

In the complaint, the Mintsev family lists the difficulties and problems that arose as a result of the arrest. In particular, they appeal to the amount left for them to live - this is £ 10,000. "The purpose of the arrest of assets is not to force the defendants to live in cramped circumstances or to be unable to fulfill obligations to third parties," the complaint says.

Among the problems that have arisen due to the freezing of assets, Mintz and his sons mention difficulties with payments made by four hotels in London owned by them.

In October 2018, RBC wrote with reference to the British register of legal entities that the family of Boris Mints acquired the DoubleTree by Hilton Cheltenham spa hotel in the UK, 150 km from London. In addition, the accounts of the management company EG were frozen.

Capital Advisors, in which Alexander Minz and Igor Mints each own 42.5%. She was just in the process of obtaining a British license. This company, the complaint says, not only manages the Mintsev family trust, but also money from outside investors. “This damage is difficult to estimate now, but it can amount to tens of millions. It is unacceptable that such damage was caused to ordinary enterprises and investors, ”the document says. Moreover, JP Morgan, which provided leverage to EG Capital Advisors, immediately demanded a refund, respondents complain. Only for the Mintsev Trust, the loan was $ 2.5 million.

“The order on the alienation of assets turns the respondents' lives upside down. The last two weeks the Mintz family had to spend working to provide the court with all the information about the assets, counting their weekly living expenses, and trying to prevent serious damage to their business. Much time is wasted, ”respondents complain.

The claim of Bank Trust in the High Court of London is connected with the purchase of Otkritie FC by the bank (whose bad assets have now been transferred to Trust) of the bonds of one of the structures of the O1 Group, O1 Group Finance, worth 35 billion rubles. The plaintiff believes that the transaction, completed in August 2017, shortly before the bank was reorganized, was non-market and brought losses to Otkritie. The same bond purchase is the subject of litigation at the International Commercial Arbitration Court in London (LCIA). Boris Mintz told Forbes through a representative that the fact of the institution of two identical lawsuits against him is the pressure on him and his sons Dmitry, Alexander and Igor.

Mintz argues that he agreed with “Discovery” to understand precisely the LCIA and is not satisfied with the lawsuits filed in Russia by the Central Bank. The statement by Mints stated that he now came to an agreement with the plaintiff that the proceedings will continue in London in April 2020. In fact, Mintz explained to Forbes that the conditions on the bonds should have improved in September 2017 - the rate would increase and the maturity would be reduced. Agreement on this was reached in August, says Mints.

 

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The Abramovich Foundation will support three films from novice directors.

Billionaire Roman Abramovich’s Foundation Kinoprim will give money to create three directorial debuts. The fund’s biggest interest was the Whaler, Poultry Milk and Tenerife projects.

Established by billionaire Roman Abramovich F 10, the Kinoprime Modern Cinema Development Fund will partially fund the production of the Whaler, Bird's Milk and Tenerife films. All three pictures are debut works by novice directors, TASS reports, citing the foundation press service. The amount for which the fund will finance projects is not specified.

According to the chairman of the board of the fund, screenwriter and director Pavel Chukhrai, whose words are quoted by the press office, all the films "tell about the life and problems of young people." “There was no initial agreement to support exclusively debuts, but these three projects aroused the greatest interest of experts,” Chukhrai explained.

Money and dreams. Members of the Forbes list are trying to make money on the movie

The film “Kitoboy”, according to its own scenario, is shot by VGIK graduate Philip Yuriev. The film, produced by Alexey Uchitel and Kira Saksaganskaya, tells about a 15-year-old Chukchi hunter who fell in love with an American from webcam chat. The young man decides to go to her through the Bering Strait.

The “bird's milk” by producer Roman Borisevich tells of a 16-year-old boy from Transnistria who five days before Easter decides to flee from his native village to Europe. The author of the script and director of the film is Yevgeny Marian, a graduate of the Free Film School of Film. At the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, the film won the top prize in the Work in Progress section.

The film “Tenerife” is produced by Artem Vasilyev, Igor Mishin and Andrey Saveliev. This is a screen adaptation of Alexei Ivanov's novel “Dormitory-on-the-Blood”. The film will be the directorial debut of cameraman Roman Vasyanov, who worked on Styles, Fury, and Suicide Squad.

About the upcoming launch of the fund became known in November last year. RBC sources reported that the annual investment of the fund will be about 1 billion rubles. Moreover, the Ministry of Culture allocates 6 billion rubles a year.

The Kinoprim Foundation was registered in February of this year. Abramovich became his only founder. The executive director was Anton Malyshev, who until the autumn of 2018 held a similar position in the Cinema Fund. As the main activity of the organization, the documents state “the provision of other financial services, except insurance and pension services, not included in other groups”.

The opening and closing films of the Sochi Kinotavr festival held in June were also sponsored by Abramovich.

 

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Rybolovlev sold the former Trump estate in Florida in parts.

Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev sold the last of three land plots on which the former estate of US President Donald Trump in Florida is located. On the sale of property Rybolovlev earned more than $ 13 million

Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev sold three plots into which he divided the estate of American President Donald Trump in 2008 in Palm Beach, Florida. The last lot left last week for $ 37.3 million, writes Mansion Global. At the same time, a year ago, the same area was put up for sale for $ 42 million. Rybolovlev’s representative declined to comment, confirming only the fact that the transaction was completed.

 

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Former State Duma deputy accused of extorting $ 50 million from Friedman and Aven

Former State Duma deputy Leonid Mayevsky was accused of extorting $ 50 million from billionaires Mikhail Friedman and Peter Aven. The court recognized the co-owners of Alfa Bank as the victims The

Tver court of Moscow recognized the co-owners of Alfa Bank Mikhail Fridman F 7 and Peter Aven F 21 as victims in the case of extortion from them of about $ 50 million by former State Duma deputy from the Communist Party Leonid Maevsky. It is reported by RIA Novosti, referring to the case file, voiced by the judge when considering the extension of the arrest of Maevsky.

According to investigators, the ex-deputy extorted $ 50 million from billionaires, threatening to spread information that could harm businessmen. What kind of compromising material, according to the investigation, threatened to publish Mayevsky, is not specified.

"Mayevsky <...> demanded that Friedman and Aven transfer to him <...> $ 50 million <...>, under the threat of disseminating information that could cause substantial harm to the rights and legitimate interests of Friedman and Aven," the RIA procedural document quotes News.

From the materials it follows that Maevsky himself consistently met with each of the victims individually “from October 31, 2018 to November 12, 2018” - first in a cafe on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, and then in an elite restaurant on Smolenskaya Square. With whom he met first, not specified.

The investigation requested that Mayevsky’s arrest be extended until October 14, noting that the accused could hide because his family lives abroad. Judge Alexander Merkulov granted the motion. Together with the ex-deputy, the judge extended the arrest to his assistant Maxim Bukin, also until October 14. The entrepreneur’s lawyer said in court that he hadn’t committed any crime, and that the case concerns a civil procedure dispute.

Mayevsky became a defendant in the criminal case on November 14, but the names of the victims were unknown. He was soon detained, accused of "extortion committed in order to obtain property on an especially large scale." Two days later, he was arrested. The former deputy faces up to 15 years in prison.

Mayevsky was a deputy of the State Duma of the third convocation from the Communist Party faction. In 2005, as Kommersant wrote, he “temporarily left Russia”, while in the press service of the company LV Finance Group Ltd. headed by him. stated that he decided to hide abroad "from the unprecedented pressure of law enforcement agencies." Subsequently, the businessman returned to Russia.

In the 2000s, Maevsky was a business partner of one of the founders of Megafon, investment banker Leonid Rozhetskin. In 2003, its Palmer Trading structure acquired LV Finance from Rozhetskin, whose main asset was Megafon shares. As a result, this package was sold to Alpha for $ 295 million.

 

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Vekselberg and Blavatnik won the dispute with ex-Senator Lebedev for $ 2 billion. A

New York court rejected the claim of former Senator Leonid Lebedev against billionaires Viktor Vekselberg and Leonard Blavatnik. Since 2014, Lebedev has been trying to prove his right to $ 2 billion, which, in his opinion, he should have received after the sale of TNK-BP to Rosneft. A

court in New York sided with billionaires Viktor Vekselberg F 11 and Leonard Blavatnik (No. 22 in American Forbes rating; $ 17.8 billion) in a dispute with former senator from Chuvashia, co-founder of the Synthesis group Leonid Lebedev F 141 and rejected the lawsuit of the latter, according to Bloomberg.

The plaintiff’s lawyer told the agency that Lebedev plans to appeal the decision. Representatives of Blavatnik and Vekselberg did not respond promptly to the agency’s request.

$ 2 billion dispute: what Senator Lebedev accuses Vekselberg and Blavatnik

In 2013, Rosneft bought 100% of the TNK-BP oil company. Prior to this, TNK-BP's shareholders were British BP and the AAR consortium, which included Alfa Group Mikhail Fridman and his partners, Access Industries Blavatnik and Renov Vekselberg. The total transaction amounted to almost $ 55 billion, of which $ 13.8 billion was received by Renova and Access Industries.

In 2014, Lebedev filed a lawsuit against Vekselberg and Blavatnik in a New York court. He claimed to be a “secret shareholder” of TNK-BP and owed him $ 2 billion from the money received by billionaires from Rosneft.

According to the lawsuit, Lebedev, Vekselberg and Blavatnik have been partners in the oil business since 1997, and Lebedev helped billionaires privatize 40% of TNCs. Legally, they formalized their business relations only in 2001, having concluded a shareholder agreement. According to it, Lebedev received the right to 15% of the profits of the oil business and, in particular, 15% to OGIP, through which the partners owned a package of TNCs. At the same time, only Lebedev and Vekselberg signed the agreement immediately, Blavatnik agreed to the terms of the agreement later, ordering to issue a guarantee letter confirming OGIP's obligation to pay dividends.

The former senator claimed in court that the agreement gave him the right to 15% in any company - the successor of OGIP, as well as 15% of all income from the joint oil business - in the form of dividends or another form. In 2003, TNK merged with BP's Russian business. In the joint company, the AAR and BP consortium each received 50%, and Lebedev was not named among the final owners.

 

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Leonid Mikhelson
Chairman of the Board of Novatek PJSC
"Do you know what risk sharing is? It is more comfortable to have partners"

Fortune 2019
$ 24,000 million
Biography and facts
Michelson believes that not everything can be measured in money. In his view, wealth is not the main thing, the main thing is that he create something, his acquaintance tells. His goal is construction: he left the foremen and is proud of it. “Michelson himself with a shovel in the forefront is a feature that inspires respect. He is a builder in the broad sense of the word. He creates something all the time, and for him it has value, ”says a businessman who is well acquainted with the billionaire.

The son of the builder, Leonid Mikhelson, came to the Tyumen north from Samara after the institute - as a foreman for the construction of the Urengoy-Chelyabinsk gas pipeline. He got up at six in the morning and, before going to work (the planning meeting began at seven), he could drink vodka at breakfast — he had to work with a special contingent. The construction department, where Mikhelson worked, was mostly sent to yesterday’s prisoners. The foreman didn’t especially stand on ceremony with them, and when the police took the prisoners away from the construction site for their bad behavior, Mikhelson often heard in his address: “We will meet again in the zone.”

But he also came across very decent people. In the north, Michelson learned to work with any contingent, says his friend. Since then, he has not been drinking vodka; he prefers wine and even collects it. Tyumen North Michelson really hooked. Everything was done there at the limit of possibilities, he probably liked it, his acquaintance considers. And when Michelson was called to Samara to build a subway, he no longer wanted to go back; he liked to build gas pipelines more. Shortly before his father’s death, he headed the Kuibyshevtruboprovodstroy.

Nowadays, enterprises in which he has a significant influence, such as Novatek and Sibur, are also living in a constant construction mode. In December 2017, Mikhelson completed the construction of a multi-billion-dollar project - a gas liquefaction plant on the Yamal Peninsula with a capacity of about 16.5 million tons. Yamal LNG is already exporting commercial batches of gas. And Sibur plans to open one of the country's largest petrochemical enterprises in Tobolsk in 2019 - Zapsibneftekhim with a capacity of more than 2 million tons of ethylene, propylene and butane-butylene fraction.

Michelson is very tough, direct, competent, able-bodied - this is how Michelson is described by people who worked with him at different times. It does not change into little things, sees the main thing and is ready for serious steps, thanks to this it makes a huge impression on people from the inner circle. Its main partner is Gennady Timchenko, a billionaire and friend of Vladimir Putin.

The first business Since 1987, he headed the Kuybyshevtrubopro * Vodstro , in 1991 he transformed the trust into a private enterprise, Nova.

Capital Package of shares of Novatek (24.76%), Sibur (48.48%).

Partners Gennady Timchenko, Leonid Simanovsky.

The figure of 33.8 billion rubles is the dividends of Sibur for 2018. This is a record for the company.

Event In December 2018, Novatek launched the third line of the Yamal LNG project. The capacity of the entire gas liquefaction complex worth $ 27 billion is 16.5 million tons per year. The share of Novatek in the LNG market approached 5%.

Transaction In March 2019, Novatek sold Total 10% of its next Arctic LNG-2 gas liquefaction project to the Gydan Peninsula. A project with a capacity of 19.8 million tons of LNG is being developed on the basis of the Utrennoye field with reserves of more than 1.1 trillion cubic meters. m of gas according to PRMS standards.

Charity The Foundation is headed by VAC (Victoria - the Art of Bearing Contemporary), named after Victoria's daughter. The Foundation supports contemporary art, provides grants to young artists and curators. In addition, he is an investor in the Victoria Gallery in Samara.

 

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Vladimir Lisin
Chairman of the Board of Directors of NLMK

Fortune 2019 $ 21.3 billion
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Metallurgist Vladimir Lisin is known for his unwavering tenacity in any business. Although the choice of profession was accidental, having been assigned to Tulachermet by distribution, the future billionaire went from a steelworker to a deputy shop manager. From the mid-1980s until the collapse of the USSR, Lisin worked at the Karaganda Metallurgical Plant under the direction of Oleg Soskovets, who in 1993 will become the first deputy prime minister in the government of Boris Yeltsin. By that time, Lisin will also move to Moscow and along with future billionaires Iskander Makhmudov and Oleg Deripaska will become an employee of the British Trans World Group (TWG). Its owners - brothers Mikhail and Lev Chernykh - were associated with Soskovets, and TWG itself was the largest player in Russian metallurgy.

In 1996, when Yeltsin fired Soskovets, and the Blacks began to divide the business, Lisin was not at a loss. He managed to establish control over one of the most promising TWG plants - the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works (NLMK). He fought off the brothers' claims, defended the plant in a corporate fight with Vladimir Potanin, brought NLMK to IPO and turned it into a real cache machine.

Lisin is called an addicted person. In the 2000s, he was actively interested in politics in Lipetsk and built a media holding. Then he took up the purchase of transport assets and became interested in GR. Now his main passion is shooting sports. He’s a master of sports in trap shooting, since 2002 he heads the Russian Shooting Union, since 2009 he is president of the European Shooting Confederation (ESC), and since 2018, president of the International Shooting Federation (ISSF). In the suburbs, Lisin built the largest in Europe sports and shooting complex "Fox hole", and launched a line for the production of targets at NLMK. Lisin also owns a Scottish estate, where he regularly goes hunting. His eldest son Dmitry, also an avid hunter, is on the board of directors of a number of Lisin's assets.

Education Siberian Metallurgical Institute (1976).

The beginning of a career He began his career as an electrician in the association “Yuzhkuzbassugol”.

The first business In the late 1980s, he headed the Soviet-Swiss company TSK-Steel, which traded substandard metal abroad.

Capital A stake in NLMK (84%), the transport holding Universal Cargo Logistics (100%).

The figure of $ 1.6 billion Lisin received in the form of dividends by NLMK in 2018.

Detail In the database of Rospatent Lisin is listed as the author of new methods of washing a blast furnace, processing steel in a ladle, obtaining coating on a metal strip and the owner of a couple more dozen patents.

Hobbies Shooting, hunting. He built the largest in Europe sports and shooting complex "Fox hole" in the suburbs.