23 Facts About Michael Cherney

Michael Cherney is an Israeli entrepreneur and industrialist.

Michael Cherney is known for his significant role in the 1990s aluminium industry in Russia, and his business ventures in Israel.

Michael Cherney is the founder of the Michael Cherney Foundation and a sponsor of The Intelligence Summit.

At the age of fourteen, Michael Cherney started working, as he joined his father on moonlighting jobs.

Michael Cherney is wanted on an Interpol international arrest warrant on allegations of money laundering and organized crime, but in June 2010 The Jerusalem Post reported that Michael Cherney is preparing an application to contest it before the European Union Court of Human Rights.

Michael Cherney had joint ventures with Deripaska in Blonde, Operator Trade Center, CCT, and Arufa between 1995 and 1998.

In 2002 Michael Cherney was involved in the selling-on of the Bulgarian mobile provider Mobiltel.

Michael Cherney bought the company together with Austrian business men Martin Schlaff, former minister of the Austrian People's Party Josef Taus, and financial expert Herbert Cordt.

Michael Cherney is the founder and primary sponsor of the Intelligence Summit.

In February 2006, The New York Sun reported that John Deutch and James Woolsey had resigned from the Intelligence Summit's board of advisers after receiving information that the conference's primary sponsor, Michael Cherney, had "alleged ties to the Russian mafia".

Michael Cherney gave a statement to the police in which he admitted using a Polish passport in an attempt to enter the UK, which had been successful previously.

Michael Cherney is a close friend of Avigdor Lieberman who allegedly received millions of shekels from various entrepreneurs, including Michael Cherney, while serving as member of Knesset; under Israeli law, MKs are not allowed to receive any payment beyond their salary.

One claim is that Michael Cherney paid a company called Path to the East large amounts of money between the years 1999 and 2006, and that these sums were then allegedly passed on to Lieberman as a bribe.

The investigators believe that Michael Cherney managed several Spanish businesses, registered in Alicante and Levante, used by the mafia for money laundering of 4 million euros.

On 24 November 2006, Michael Cherney filed a suit against Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire who owns the huge Russian aluminium company, RusAl, in the Commercial Court of London's High Court.

Deripaska denies that Michael Cherney owns shares and said in an affidavit that his relationship with Michael Cherney was one of a businessman being extorted by a crime boss.

High Court Justice Christopher Clarke ruled that Michael Cherney might be assassinated or held on trumped-up charges if he tried to bring the case in Russia.

At a June 2011 case management conference, the judge deferred a decision on whether Michael Cherney would be allowed to give evidence by video link from Israel rather than appear in person as an outstanding Interpol arrest warrant means he would be detained if he visited the UK.

In late July 2011, the High Court ruled that Michael Cherney may give evidence at the trial by video link from Israel and set trial for April 2012.

Aviv Mor, a private investigator was found guilty of illegally gathering information of personal nature - in particular, tapping the phones of Michael Cherney and sentenced to a plea bargained result which handed down a 14-month sentence to Mor.

Michael Cherney claimed that it was this Russian oligarch, acting through Drobashenko, who had hired Eskin, Pridan and Mor.

Michael Cherney was in a relationship with Business woman Nicol Raidman until they got engaged in 2019 later that year they broke up.

Michael Cherney shared a house in Moscow with Igor Putin, Vladimir Putin's cousin, and Berel Lazar, Putin's Rabbi who is the Chief Rabbi of Russia.