1. Alisher Usmanov has been the president of the Federation Internationale d'Escrime, the international governing body of the sport of fencing, from 2008 until 2022, and again from 2024.
40 Facts About Alisher Usmanov
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On 28 February 2022, in reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Union blacklisted Alisher Usmanov, imposing an EU-wide travel ban on him and freezing all his assets.
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Alisher Usmanov spent six years in a Soviet prison in the 1980s on charges of fraud and embezzlement, but his conviction was later overturned.
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Alisher Usmanov was arrested and convicted on charges of fraud, corruption, and theft of state property, which charges included shaking down an Army officer, in Uzbek SSR in August 1980.
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On May 4,2022, Alisher Usmanov filed for divorce from Viner.
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Alisher Usmanov worked as the Deputy General Director of Intercross JSC from 1990 to 1994, and from 1994 to 1998, he headed Interfin Interbank Investment and Finance Company.
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Alisher Usmanov acted as an Adviser to the General Director of Moscow Aviation Industrial Enterprise from 1994 to 1995, and served as the First Deputy Chairman of MAPO-Bank from 1995 to 1997.
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Unlike Russia's tycoons who won control of empires through loans-for-share privatization schemes of the 1990s, Alisher Usmanov built up Metalloinvest through a series of acquisitions in the secondary market.
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Alisher Usmanov is the second largest shareholder, after Dr Mohammed Al Bawani, in Toronto-listed Nautilus Minerals, which planned to extract undersea gold and copper deposits off Papua New Guinea in 2019.
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On 2 December 2021, Alisher Usmanov's holding shares were sold to Russian insurance company Sogaz.
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Alisher Usmanov made his first investment to Facebook in 2009 by Mail.
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Facebook's IPO in 2012 valued it several times greater and in selling his stake Alisher Usmanov won at least $1,4 billion on it.
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Alisher Usmanov subsequently disposed of his shares in early 2014.
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Alisher Usmanov sold his TV assets to his business-partner Ivan Tavrin in 2017.
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Alisher Usmanov was a shareholder of the English football team Arsenal from 2007 to 2018.
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Alisher Usmanov then purchased shares held by Scottish football club Rangers in February 2012.
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Alisher Usmanov criticized Arsenal's lack of ambition and financial model in an open letter sent to the board on 5 July 2012.
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In January 2017, Alisher Usmanov's holding company, USM, entered a five-year, $15 million+ deal with Everton FC for the naming rights of the club's training ground, Finch Farm.
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Companies with Alisher Usmanov's interest continued to provide funding for the club despite the fact that he was barred from entering the UK in 2021.
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Alisher Usmanov was president of the Russian Fencing Federation from 2001 to 2009.
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Alisher Usmanov was concurrently president of the European Fencing Confederation from 2005 to 2009.
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Alisher Usmanov was elected president of the International Fencing Federation in 2008 with 66 votes to 61 for incumbent president Rene Roch.
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In 2021, Alisher Usmanov was re-elected by acclamation to a fourth term, for which he was congratulated by Vladimir Putin and Thomas Bach.
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On 30 November 2024, Alisher Usmanov was re-elected for a new term as President and he suspended himself from the role again.
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Alisher Usmanov was a member of the Councils of the 2014 Sochi XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games.
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On 28 February 2022, in reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Union blacklisted Alisher Usmanov, imposing an EU-wide travel ban on him and freezing all his assets.
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On October 26,2023, the court considered the application of Alisher Usmanov's lawyers requesting to stop illegal retention of property seized during the searches and ordered to return it to its owners.
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In June 2024, Alisher Usmanov filed suit against UBS Europe SE in Frankfurt over what his lawyers said were unsubstantiated reports that triggered an illegal criminal probe into his business dealings.
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Alisher Usmanov said that the bank had violated its confidentiality agreements by sharing more than a dozen misleading reports dating from 2018 to 2022 with German police.
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Alisher Usmanov's lawyers said that after more than two-and-a-half years, the investigation had failed to prove the accusations against him.
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In 2012, it was claimed by businessman Boris Berezovsky that Alisher Usmanov was given Sutton Place as part of a business deal, a claim that Alisher Usmanov denied.
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Alisher Usmanov later repeated that process when the second Dilbar was renamed Ona and was sold to a middle-eastern buyer in 2018.
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Some media reported that on 2 March 2022, German authorities seized Dilbar in Hamburg as part of sanctions against Alisher Usmanov stemming from the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine.
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In 2006 Alisher Usmanov founded "Art, Science and Sport" Charity Fund.
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In February 2020, it was revealed Alisher Usmanov purchased Pierre de Coubertin's original 1892 Olympic Manifesto for $8.8 million.
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In 2011, Alisher Usmanov received the Order "Dostyk" 2nd degree of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
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In 2014, Alisher Usmanov received the Order of Alexander Nevsky for his community and charitable activities.
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In 2017, Mr Alisher Usmanov was awarded the title of Commander "Order of Merit of the Italian Republic" for architectural restoration projects.
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In 2018 Alisher Usmanov received the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 3rd class.
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On 4 December 2014, Alisher Usmanov paid $4.8m for Dr James Watson's Nobel Prize Medal in Physiology or Medicine, which was auctioned at Christie's in New York City.