1. Suleyman Abusaidovich Kerimov is a Russian billionaire, oligarch, philanthropist and politician of the Lezgin descent.
46 Facts About Suleyman Kerimov
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Since 2008, Suleyman Kerimov has represented the Republic of Dagestan in the Federation Council of Russia.
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Suleyman Kerimov bought the football club FC Anzhi Makhachkala in 2011, which subsequently made numerous high-profile signings.
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Suleiman Suleyman Kerimov has been the focus of scrutiny in the US for years.
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Suleyman Kerimov was born in Derbent, Dagestan, to a Dagestani Lezgin family.
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Suleyman Kerimov graduated from high school in 1983, and following this enrolled in the Civil Engineering Department at Dagestan Polytechnic Institute in 1984, though his obligatory military service for the Soviet Army brought his studies to a halt just one year later.
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Suleyman Kerimov has stated to have dreamed of making money from an early age, an ambition that prompted him to later move from his native Dagestan in the early 1990s.
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Suleyman Kerimov was paid 150 roubles a month and he and his wife lived in a worker's hostel attached to the plant, where they shared one room of a two-room flat.
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In 1993, Suleyman Kerimov was put in charge of handling relations between Eltav and Fedprombank, a Moscow bank established by the electrical company.
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Suleyman Kerimov undertook a mass restructuring of the company, selling off all of the oil-related aspects and creating an investment and holding company.
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However, in mid-2008, Suleyman Kerimov sold all his Gazprom and Sberbank shares.
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Suleyman Kerimov decreased his stakes in Gazprom and other Russian blue chips and approached Wall Street, proposing to invest the vast majority of his fortune to defend the institutions from short-sellers.
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In return, it was expected that Suleyman Kerimov would receive favorable lending terms for future loans.
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In 2007, Suleyman Kerimov invested billions in Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and other financial institutions.
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In December 2013 Suleyman Kerimov sold his shares to property investor Sergei Gordeev and businessman Alexander Mamut, who owns a stake in precious metals miner Polymetal.
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Suleyman Kerimov secured substantial loans from Russia's VTB bank for the Uralkali takeover.
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The Belarusian authorities later withdrew the case against Suleyman Kerimov and closed the criminal investigation.
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Suleyman Kerimov is always a few steps ahead of you.
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Suleyman Kerimov reportedly made extensive use of leverage for his investments, according to financiers and bankers active in Russia.
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In 2011, Suleyman Kerimov purchased FC Anzhi Makhachkala, his hometown football club which competes in the Russian Premier League.
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Apart from FC Anzhi, Suleyman Kerimov financed the construction of a modern football stadium Anzhi Arena for 30,000 spectators and teams from Anzhi's Youth Football Academy.
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Suleyman Kerimov sold the club to Osman Kadiyev on 28 December 2016.
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Shortly after Suleyman Kerimov bought into Nafta Moskva, the company found itself in a conflict with businessman Andrei Andreev.
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In October 2015, Suleiman Suleyman Kerimov sold his interest in the property to businessmen Yury and Alexey Khotin for an undisclosed amount.
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In November 2017, Suleyman Kerimov was arrested by French police at Nice airport in connection with a tax evasion case concerning his alleged purchase of several luxury residences on the French Riviera via shell companies.
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Suleyman Kerimov 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.
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From 1999 to 2003, Suleyman Kerimov was a member of the State Duma of the 3rd Convocation, the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, as well as a member of the State Duma Committee for Security.
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Suleyman Kerimov first gained a seat in parliament with the Liberal Democratic Party, led by Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
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Later, Suleyman Kerimov's son Said became the sole beneficiary of the said trusts.
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Suleiman Suleyman Kerimov was re-elected to the Federation Council in September 2016.
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Suleyman Kerimov's father was a lawyer at a criminal investigation institution, while his mother was an accountant for the Savings Bank of Russia.
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In October 2011, Suleyman Kerimov used his connections to fly Western financial figures such as Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan, Richard Parsons of Citigroup and Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone to Moscow in support of Medvedev's initiative to turn Moscow into an "international financial centre".
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In 2006 Suleyman Kerimov was listed among the world's 100 richest people and as Russia's eighth richest man ranked by Forbes.
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In 2020, Suleyman Kerimov's fortune doubled due to a sharp rise in gold prices.
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Suleyman Kerimov keeps vast assets through networks of offshore companies.
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Suleyman Kerimov owns a villa in Cap d'Antibes, France.
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On 26 November 2006, in Nice, France, Suleyman Kerimov was seriously injured after losing control of a $650,000 Ferrari Enzo on the Promenade des Anglais.
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Suleyman Kerimov suffered severe burns as a result of the accident.
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From 2005 to 2015, Suleyman Kerimov owned one of the world's largest private yachts, which is known as Ice.
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Suleyman Kerimov has won the Superyacht of the Year award at the World Superyacht Awards in 2006, and is currently the 78th largest yacht in the world.
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Suleyman Kerimov sold Ice to The Ministry of Defence for the Republic of Equatorial Guinea in 2015.
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The Suleyman Kerimov Foundation has donated to mosque and church constructions, as well as sent thousands of pilgrims to Mecca on Hajj annually.
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Suleyman Kerimov was involved in the reconstruction of the Zarechenskaya secondary school, an advanced comprehensive school west of Moscow.
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Suleyman Kerimov is a sponsor of the Sirius educational centre for gifted children, located in Sochi and Dagestan.
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Suleyman Kerimov is head of the supervisory board of the Russian Wrestling Federation, and is a member of the Gorchakov Foundation's supervisory board.
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On 20 March 2017, Suleyman Kerimov was awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", II class by President Vladimir Putin for his outstanding contribution to the development of parliamentarianism and legislation.