88 Facts About Roman Abramovich

Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich is a Russian-Israeli-Portuguese oligarch and politician.

Roman Abramovich is the former owner of Chelsea, a Premier League football club in London, England, and is the primary owner of the private investment company Millhouse LLC Roman Abramovich has both Russian and Israeli citizenship.

Roman Abramovich was formerly Governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug from 2000 to 2008.

Roman Abramovich is considered to have a good relationship with Russian president Vladimir Putin, an allegation Roman Abramovich denied.

Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich was born on 24 October 1966 in Saratov, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.

Roman Abramovich's father was of Jewish descent and died when he was young.

Roman Abramovich's mother, Irina, was a music teacher who died when Abramovich was one years old.

Roman Abramovich's maternal grandparents were Vasily Mikhailenko and Faina Borisovna Grutman, both born in Ukraine.

Roman Abramovich is the Chairman of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, and a trustee of the Moscow Jewish Museum.

Roman Abramovich decided to establish a forest of some 25,000 new and rehabilitated trees, in memory of Lithuania's Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust, plus a virtual memorial and tribute to Lithuanian Jewry enabling people from all over the world to commemorate their ancestors' personal stories by naming a tree and including their name in the memorial.

Roman Abramovich first worked as a street-trader, and then as a mechanic at a local factory.

Roman Abramovich attended the Gubkin Institute of Oil and Gas in Moscow, then traded commodities for the Swiss trading firm Runicom.

In 1988, as perestroika created opportunities for privatization in the Soviet Union, Roman Abramovich gained a chance to legitimise his old business.

Roman Abramovich has traded in timber, sugar, food stuffs and other products.

Roman Abramovich later admitted in court that he paid billions of dollars of bribes to government officials and gangsters to acquire and protect his assets.

Roman Abramovich was initially hesitant to enter into the aluminium business, claiming that "every three days someone was murdered in that business".

Roman Abramovich sold Sibneft to the Russian government for $13 billion in 2005.

Roman Abramovich accused Abramovich of blackmail, breach of trust and breach of contract.

The judge found Berezovsky to be "an unimpressive, and inherently unreliable witness, who regarded truth as a transitory, flexible concept, which could be moulded to suit his current purposes", whereas Roman Abramovich was seen as "a truthful, and on the whole, reliable witness".

Mr Roman Abramovich denies that he helped himself to Mr Berezovsky's interests in Sibneft and aluminium or that he threatened a friend of the exile.

In return for the defendant [Roman Abramovich] agreeing to provide Mr Berezovsky with funds he required in connection with the cash flow of [his TV company] ORT, Mr Berezovsky agreed he would use his personal and political influence to support the project and assist in the passage of the necessary legislative steps leading to the creation of Sibneft.

In 2015, Roman Abramovich invested and led a $30 million round of funding with businessman OD Kobo Chairman of PIR Equities.

Also StoreDot, founded by Doron Myersdorf, where Roman Abramovich has invested over $30 million.

In June 2003, Roman Abramovich became the owner of the companies that control Chelsea in West London.

Roman Abramovich's tenure has been marked by rapid turnover in managers.

Also high were Roman Abramovich's spending regarding purchases of Portuguese football players.

Roman Abramovich is present at nearly every Chelsea game and shows visible emotion during matches, a sign taken by supporters to indicate a genuine love for the sport, and usually visits the players in the dressing room following each match.

Roman Abramovich was set to invest hundreds of millions of pounds for the construction of the stadium.

Roman Abramovich has been accused of purchasing Chelsea at the behest of Vladimir Putin, but he has denied the claim.

In 2021, Roman Abramovich was criticized for trying to enter Chelsea into the newly announced European Super League.

The competition was widely scrutinized for encouraging greediness among the richer, larger football clubs, which would have undermined the significance of existing football competitions; however, just two days later, Roman Abramovich pulled the club out of the new competition, with other English clubs following suit, causing the league to suspend operations.

In 2022, it was reported that Roman Abramovich was owed $2 billion from Chelsea FC According to Forbes, Roman Abramovich's loan was insurance in case the British government considered sanctioning him due to his close relationship with the Putin regime in Russia.

On 26 February 2022, during the Russo-Ukrainian War, Roman Abramovich handed over "stewardship and care" of Chelsea FC to the Chelsea Charitable Foundation.

Roman Abramovich released an official statement on 2 March 2022 confirming that he was selling the club due to the ongoing situation in Ukraine.

UEFA rules prevent one person owning more than one team participating in UEFA competitions, so Roman Abramovich has no equity interest in CSKA.

In October 2005 Roman Abramovich sold his interest in Sibneft and the company's new owner Gazprom, which sponsors Zenit Saint Petersburg, cancelled the sponsorship deal.

Roman Abramovich played a large role in bringing Guus Hiddink to Russia to coach the Russia national football team.

In 1999, Roman Abramovich was elected to the State Duma as the representative for the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, an impoverished region in the Russian Far East.

Roman Abramovich started the charity Pole of Hope to help the people of Chukotka, especially children, and in December 2000, was elected governor of Chukotka, replacing Aleksandr Nazarov.

Roman Abramovich was the governor of Chukotka from 2000 to 2008.

Roman Abramovich was awarded the Order of Honour for his "huge contribution to the economic development of the autonomous district [of Chukotka]", by a decree signed by the President of Russia.

The day after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Roman Abramovich was contacted by Ukrainian magnates and asked to function as informal envoy to Putin.

Roman Abramovich played a key role in the release of Aiden Aslin and other foreign prisoners of war from Russian captivity.

In 1999, the 33-year-old Roman Abramovich was elected governor of the Russian province of Chukotka.

Roman Abramovich ran for a second term as governor in 2005.

The Kremlin press service reported that Roman Abramovich's name had been sent for approval as governor for another term to Chukotka's local parliament, which confirmed his appointment on 21 October 2005.

Roman Abramovich was the first person to recommend to Yeltsin that Vladimir Putin be his successor as the Russian president.

When Putin formed his first cabinet as Prime Minister in 1999, Roman Abramovich interviewed each of the candidates for cabinet positions before they were approved.

Roman Abramovich found Berezovsky to be "an inherently unreliable witness" and sided with Abramovich in 2012.

US media reports that the US intelligence community believes Roman Abramovich is a "bag carrier", a financial middleman, for Putin.

Roman Abramovich is one of many Russian oligarchs named in the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, CAATSA, signed into law by President Donald Trump in 2017.

Roman Abramovich had his UK assets frozen and a travel ban was put in place.

The British government said the sanctions were in response to Roman Abramovich's alleged ties to the Kremlin and said the companies Roman Abramovich controls could be producing steel used in tanks deployed offensively by Russia in Ukraine.

Roman Abramovich denies that he has close ties to Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin.

In late March 2022, it was reported that Roman Abramovich was house-hunting in Dubai, where his private plane had been spotted, owing to the city's sanction-free status.

The Russian government spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Roman Abramovich took part in the negotiations "at the initial stage".

In 2011, Boris Berezovsky brought a civil case against Roman Abramovich, called Berezovsky v Roman Abramovich, in the High Court of Justice in London, but Berzovsky was unsuccessful in the case.

In 2008, The Times reported that court papers showed Roman Abramovich admitting that he paid billions of dollars for political favours and protection fees for shares of Russia's oil and aluminium assets.

Roman Abramovich's spokesman indicated that the loan had previously been repaid.

Russia's antitrust body, the Federal Antimonopoly Service, claimed that Evraz Holding, owned in part by Roman Abramovich, had breached Russian competition law by offering unfavourable terms for contractors and discriminating against domestic consumers for coking coal, a key material used in steel production.

Putin claimed in 2014 that Kolomoyskyi had reneged on a contract with Roman Abramovich, saying that the pair signed a multibillion-dollar deal on which Kolomoyskyi never delivered.

Analysis of bank documents indicate Roman Abramovich is the largest single donor to the organisation.

Roman Abramovich's eldest daughter Anna is a graduate of Columbia University and lives in New York City, and his daughter Sofia is a professional equestrian who lives in London after graduating from Royal Holloway, University of London.

Roman Abramovich married Zhukova in 2008, and they have two children, a son, Aaron Alexander, and a daughter, Leah Lou.

In May 2018, Roman Abramovich became an Israeli citizen a month after the UK delayed renewing his visa.

Roman Abramovich, who is Russian-Jewish, exercised his birthright under Israel's Law of Return, which states that Jews from anywhere in the world can become citizens of Israel.

Roman Abramovich owns the Varsano boutique hotel in the Neve Tzedek neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel, which he bought for 100 million NIS in 2015 from Israeli actress and model Gal Gadot's husband Yaron "Jaron" Varsano and his brother Guy Varsano.

In January 2020, Roman Abramovich purchased a property in Herzliya Pituah, Israel, for a record 226 million NIS.

In 2015, Roman Abramovich donated approximately $30m to Tel Aviv University to establish an innovative Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, which aspires to become one of the leading facilities in the Middle East.

Recently, due to the alarming increase in COVID-19 cases in Israel, Roman Abramovich gave Sheba Hospital another donation for a new subterranean Intensive Care Unit, spanning 5,400 sq.

Roman Abramovich filed an application for a residence permit in the canton of Valais, Switzerland, in July 2016, a tax-friendly home to successful businessmen, and planned to transfer his tax residency to the Swiss municipality.

Roman Abramovich has reportedly donated more money to charity than any other living Russian.

Between 2009 and 2013, Roman Abramovich donated more than 2.5 billion to build schools, hospitals and infrastructure in Chukotka.

Roman Abramovich has reportedly spent approximately 1.5 bn on the Pole of Hope, his charity set up to help those in the Arctic region of Chukotka, where he was governor.

Roman Abramovich was recognized by the Forum for Jewish Culture and Religion for his contribution of more than $500 million to Jewish causes in Russia, the US, Britain, Portugal, Lithuania, Israel and elsewhere over the past 20 years.

In June 2019, Roman Abramovich donated $5 million to the Jewish Agency for Israel, to support efforts to combat anti-Semitism globally.

Roman Abramovich decided to establish a forest of some 25,000 trees, in memory of Lithuania's Jews who perished in the Holocaust, plus a virtual memorial and tribute to Lithuanian Jewry.

Roman Abramovich gave a substantial donation for the rehabilitation of the Jewish cemetery of Altona, now a neighborhood in the city of Hamburg.

Roman Abramovich donates money to the Chabad movement and along with Michael Kadoorie and Jacob Safra, is one of the main benefactors of the Portuguese Jewish community and of B'nai B'rith International Portugal.

In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Roman Abramovich paid for NHS staff to stay at the Stamford Bridge Millennium Hotel.

For $74 million, Roman Abramovich purchased four Upper East Side townhouses in Manhattan in New York City; 9,11,13, and 15 East 75th Street.

Roman Abramovich is a prolific collector of rare and expensive automobiles, and is a VIP client at both Bugatti and Pagani.

Roman Abramovich has become the world's greatest spender on luxury yachts, and always maintains a fleet of yachts which the media have called "Roman Abramovich's Navy":.

Originally the aircraft was ordered by Hawaiian Airlines but the order was cancelled and Roman Abramovich bought it from Boeing.

Roman Abramovich had it refitted it to his own requirements by Andrew Winch, who designed the interior and exterior.

Roman Abramovich sponsored an exhibition of photographs of Uzbekistan by renowned Soviet photographer Max Penson which opened on 29 November 2006 at the Gilbert Collection at Somerset House in London.

In May 2008, Roman Abramovich emerged as a major buyer in the international art auction market.

In 2011, Roman Abramovich hired the Red Hot Chili Peppers to perform at his estate in Baie de Gouverneur in St Barth.