Oleg Deripaska

Oleg Vladimirovitch Deripaska (in Cyrillic ОлегВладимировичДерипаска) is a Russian business man born on January 2nd 1968.

Like Roman Abramovitch, Oleg Deripaska became a member of “Eltsine nebula” marrying the girl of Valentine Ioumachev, son-in-law of Boris Eltsine.

Oleg Deripaska was the associate of Roman Abramovitch during the fusion of the empires of Boris Berezovski - Roman Abramovitch and of Mikhaïl Tchernoï in March 2000. It détrone in 2007 Roman Abramovitch as being richest Russian of the world with a fortune which would amount to 21,2 billion dollar according to the classification of the magazine Forbes .

Roussal - Rusal

Become director of Roussal (Rusal), the world number two of the Aluminum with an annual sales turnover of 7 billion dollars, Oleg Deripaska remained the “partner junior” of Mikhaïl Tchernoï and Iskander Makhmoudov, in the shade of which it had started his rise. According to Tchernoï, an agreement provided that its shares in Roussal could be repurchased by Oleg Deripaska before March 2003. In 2006, the fusion of the Rusal group with Sual, gave rise to the largest aluminum producer in the world.

A faithful Oligarch of Vladimir Poutine

In addition to its role of leader in the key sector of mining industry, Oleg Deripaska emitted, via its holding BASIC Element (a true industrial conglomerate), an buyout offer of the oil company Roussneft, after the forced withdrawal of its leader Mikhaïl Goutseriev.

Suspicions

Its rise was made possible by Mikhaïl Tchernoï, suspected of criminal activities and bleaching, prohibited territory in several European countries, of which the France, and accused for “tax evasion” in Israel.

Oleg Deripaska was declared Persona non grata with the World economic forum of Davos in 2002.

Oleg Deripaska is aimed by a lodged complaint at the end of 2000 at New York. Indeed, the Russian business man, Mikhaïl Jivilo, show it “Corruption, assassination and bonds with the Organized crime” and claim 900 million dollars of Damages to him.

Its rise to power in 2006-2007

The oligarch shows himself without limits in the business world. He recently acquired of the Russian company Razvitiye. In May 2007, it entered the capital of the group of Austrian BTP Strabag (the sixth European group of the branch of industry) to a total value of 30% like in that of the first German group of construction Hochtief, this time to a total value of 3%. Lately he thus contradicted to want interresser with the sector of the car, in particular with Jaguar and Land Rover. Its multiple purchases in the iron and steel industry in 2005 and 2006 are worth to him to have almost 50% of the GDP of the Montenegro, the State of Balkans having privatisé certain major industrial combines like that of Podgorica

References

Oleg Deripaska , Le Monde, November 28th, 2002
Oleg Deripaska: The sulfurous oligarch , the Parisian one, December 23rd, 2002

'' the Kremlin extends its control on oil '', Le Figaro, July 31st, 2007

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