54 Facts About Rinat Akhmetov

Rinat Leonidovych Akhmetov was born on 21 September 1966 and is a Ukrainian billionaire and businessman.

Rinat Akhmetov is the founder and president of international investment group System Capital Management, and is the wealthiest man in Ukraine.

Since 2014, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation has provided 13 million food kits to the residents of Ukraine, and aid has reached more than 18 million people.

Rinat Akhmetov was born in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, to a working-class family.

Rinat Akhmetov is an ethnic Volga Tatar and a practicing Sunni Muslim.

Rinat Akhmetov had an older brother, Ihor, who worked as a coal miner but had to resign due to work-related health complications.

Rinat Akhmetov earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Donetsk National University in 2001.

Rinat Akhmetov has stated in interviews that he successfully made risky business investments in the first years after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Rinat Akhmetov said Bragin left ARS in 1993, but they remained close friends.

Many publications in Ukraine and other European countries have made claims about Rinat Akhmetov's alleged "criminal past", some of which later retracted their statements.

Rinat Akhmetov himself recalls that Akhat was a very close friend of him, his death was a big tragedy for him personally, and he narrowly escaped the explosion himself.

Rinat Akhmetov founded System Capital Management Group in 2000.

The main assets of Rinat Akhmetov, according to information for 2022, include the following companies:.

In 2023, Rinat Akhmetov was not afraid to complete and complete the second stage of the Tylihul wind farm, the largest in Europe.

Rinat Akhmetov's companies are trusted in the USA, and he will transport LNG to Ukraine in 2024.

Rinat Akhmetov has been number one in Korrespondent magazine annual Ukraine's Top 50 richest people rating with the estimated wealth of:.

Rinat Akhmetov has been noted as a financier and unofficial leader of the Party of Regions political party.

Rinat Akhmetov's spokesperson refused comment on the matter, and Haiduk denied the conversation taking place.

Rinat Akhmetov was elected as a member of Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada during the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election, as a member of the Party of Regions.

Rinat Akhmetov was reelected during the 2007 parliamentary election, again as a member of the Party of Regions.

Rinat Akhmetov only appeared once in the Verkhovna Rada building during his inauguration.

Leader of the party's faction in the Verkhovna Rada, Oleksander Yefremov, has mentioned that Rinat Akhmetov provides "substantive support" to the faction by providing what he referred to as "functioning expert groups he established that are counseling on draft laws".

In December 2011 Rinat Akhmetov announced he was not going to participate in the 2012 parliamentary election.

Rinat Akhmetov has denied claims made by Pavel Gubarev in an interview published in the Russian state-controlled newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta on 12 May 2014.

Rinat Akhmetov has vowed that "siren [will be] ringing every day at noon across all of Donbas until peace is established".

Rinat Akhmetov is helping the victims of the war in Donbas in South-Eastern Ukraine.

Rinat Akhmetov has made numerous statements, since March 2014, appealing for integrity of Ukraine and finding peaceful solutions of the crisis.

Rinat Akhmetov believes decentralization should be part of this peaceful solution.

In November 2021 Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky accused Rinat Akhmetov of being enlisted to help plan a coup against him by Russia.

Rinat Akhmetov says that he does not interfere with the channels' editorial policy and that it's the "guests who come to the channels" and not the channels themselves that criticize Zelensky.

Rinat Akhmetov is the largest donor to the United Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The Azovstal plant in Mariupol, owned by Rinat Akhmetov, was the site of fierce fighting during the Siege of Mariupol and was almost completely destroyed.

In January 2023, Rinat Akhmetov announced the launch of the Heart of Azovstal project to help Mariupol defenders and the families of fallen soldiers.

In 2024, it became known that Rinat Akhmetov's fortune is estimated at $4 billion.

The Saving Lives initiative established by Metinvest, in concert with the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation, was meant to prevent a food crisis in Ukraine in the wartime.

Rinat Akhmetov's Steel Front is an initiative launched by businessman Rinat Akhmetov to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces and other defence forces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine that started in 2022.

Shakhtar Donetsk, the football club sponsored by Rinat Akhmetov, opened this year Shelter Center at the Arena Lviv, since then it has received more than 2,000 internal migrants from different regions of Ukraine.

Rinat Akhmetov has arranged 850 accommodation places in six Dnipropetrovsk and Kyrovohrad communities.

Rinat Akhmetov has already sent 123 of them to the front lines.

Rinat Akhmetov has already sent 200 for July 2023 and 500 for May 2024 to the front lines.

In June 2022, Rinat Akhmetov filed a lawsuit against the Russian Federation with the European Court of Human Rights for damages caused to his assets by Russia's military aggression against Ukraine, saying "this lawsuit is one of the first international legal steps against Russia to stop their ongoing crimes, destruction of the Ukrainian economy and the plundering of Ukrainian assets".

On November 15,2023, it became known that starting from February 24,2022, Rinat Akhmetov's companies sent more than 6.7 billion UAH to the needs of the Armed Forces and the civilian population of Ukraine.

In May 2024, it became known that the Military Initiative "Steel Front" of Rinat Akhmetov announced the serial production of additional protective steel screens for tanks.

On 11 October 1996, Akhmetov was appointed president of the team Rinat Akhmetov envisioned Shakhtar as a winner of European cups, so he began restructuring the club to achieve this goal.

Rinat Akhmetov changed the approach to the club management and transferred the operational management to the professionals.

In March 2017, a spokesperson for Rinat Akhmetov's foundation reported that humanitarian aid had been discontinued in the region after rebel organizations blocked access to the Shakhtar FC stadium, which serves as a center for relief efforts in the area.

Researcher Natalya Kolosova believes that Rinat Akhmetov is one of the first modern Ukrainian philanthropists who switched from spontaneous aid to a systematic approach.

Since 2006, Rinat Akhmetov has been among the leading philanthropists of Ukraine.

Since March 2008, the fund has been separated from the company and operates as a personal charitable foundation of Rinat Akhmetov, it maintains a partnership with SCM.

In March 2020, Rinat Akhmetov began to financially help in the fight against COVID-19.

When dealing with public criticism and allegations concerning his past, Rinat Akhmetov has utilized a team of PR consultants and lawyers to protect his image and name.

Critics accuse Rinat Akhmetov of going beyond protecting his name, but rather fear mongering investigative journalists.

In January 2008, Rinat Akhmetov won a London libel court case "for damage to his reputation" for such claims, while several other statements about his "criminal past" have been retracted by the media.

Le Figaro had claimed that Rinat Akhmetov was "a scandalous Ukrainian oligarch" and that he was "a bandit in the past".