1. Sergei Pavlovich Roldugin is a Russian cellist and businessman based in St Petersburg.
14 Facts About Sergei Roldugin
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Sergei Roldugin has been implicated in several money laundering and offshore wealth schemes for Russian elites.
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Sergei Roldugin was born in Sakhalin where his father, a military man, was stationed.
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Sergei Roldugin has relatives in Riga where his parents are buried.
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Sergei Roldugin was awarded the 1980 Prague Spring International Music Festival Competition's 3rd prize.
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In 1984 Sergei Roldugin was appointed the Kirov Opera Theatre Orchestra's principal cellist.
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Since the 1990s, Sergei Roldugin has been engaged in the oil and media business.
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Sergei Roldugin is known for having initiated the renovation of the decayed Alexis Palace as a music school and for having performed at the ruins of Palmyra a month after the site was reconquered from the ISIL.
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Sergei Roldugin plays the Stuart cello made by Antonio Stradivari in 1732; the instrument cost him $12 million.
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Sergei Roldugin introduced Putin's daughters both Katya and Masha to playing the piano and the violin.
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Sergei Roldugin has been friends with Putin since the late 1970s.
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In March 2019, Sergei Roldugin was implicated in a nearly $9 billion global money laundering scheme allegedly constructed by Sberbank CIB, in which Sergei Roldugin received $69 million.
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Early in March 2023, four Gazprombank Switzerland employees in Zurich were put on trial for the help provided to Sergei Roldugin to evade money laundering laws, prior to 2016 and found guilty.
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On 15 November 2020, Yevgeny Sergei Roldugin died from COVID-19 in Riga, Latvia.