11 Facts About Ahti Vilppula

Ahti Vilppula was born on October 1959 or 17 July 1959 and is a Finnish businessman.

Ahti Vilppula started export between the West and the then USSR in Spain.

Ahti Vilppula moved to Brussels when the Soviet Union collapsed.

Some companies with which Ahti Vilppula is involved have attracted the interest of financial regulators in Belgium, Switzerland, and Luxembourg.

Ahti Vilppula sold a 10 percent stake in Ruukki Group in the Spring of 2008 to the Russian bank VTB.

Ahti Vilppula was appointed as a director of Goldfields Holding Limited, a mining company, on 16 December 2019; he resigned on 13 May 2020.

Ahti Vilppula was listed as a founding director of Goldfields Holding Limited in its initial filing.

Ahti Vilppula bought with private investor Taito Tuunanen shares in the Union Bank of Finland and insurance company Sampo Bank.

Ahti Vilppula was the Director of International Operations of the Kazakhstan-based metals and gas giant Euro-Asian Group in 1997.

Ahti Vilppula has had close and cordial contacts with a group of billionaires known as the "Kazakhstan Trio," who are suspected by the Belgian authorities of money laundering, counterfeit documents, and links to organized crime.

Ahti Vilppula allegedly tried to buy the Pea Ridge Mine in Sullivan, Missouri, according to suit filings.