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Mikhail Safarbekovich Gutseriyev (Russian: Михаи́л Сафарбе́кович Гуцери́ев; b. March 9, 1958) is a Russian entrepreneur and previous president of Russneft, a Russian oil company.
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Biography
Early life
Gutseriyev was born into a family with many children in Tselinograd, in the then-Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan. He graduated from high school in Grozny.
He began his career as a porter, while taking night courses at Dzhambulsky Technological Institute, majoring in chemical engineering. Later, he got degrees from the Finance Academy and the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, and graduate degrees from Saint Petersburg Law Institute, including a Ph.D. from the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics. He holds degrees in law and a Ph.D. in economics.[1]
Business and political career
From 1976 to 1992 he worked his way up from laborer to General Director in the Grozny Industrial Association. Gutseriyev was a pioneer in the private banking sector in the Soviet Union—in the late 1980s he founded one of the first cooperative banks in the country.
In 1992 he started B.I.N. Bank, an industrial-financial company, in Moscow, bringing together industrial enterprises, trading companies, and financial institutions.
In 1994 he was named administrative head of the Ingushetia economic aid zone, a Russian Federation government appointment.
In 1995 he was elected deputy to the State Duma, where he acted as a Deputy Chairman.
In 2000 he was elected to the State Duma once again, this time as an independent candidate for District 12.
On January 14, 2000 Gutseriyev was elected president of NGK Slavneft OAO at a shareholders meeting.
On February 27, 2001 he was elected vice-president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
In September 2002 he started and ran Russneft.
Flight
At the end of July 2007, Mikhail Gutseriyev publicly revealed that unprecedented pressure was being put on him by the Russian government, and announced the sale of Russneft to Bazovy Element (Basic Element), a holding company owned by Oleg Deripaska, a businessman loyal to the Kremlin. Gutseriyev quit his post as president of Russneft and announced his retirement from business activities (aside from Russneft, he held a 50% stake in a company named Russian Coal, etc.), and his entry into science.[2][3]
According to some sources, the pressure brought to bear on Mikhail Gutseriyev by the Russian power structure was a result of his financial opposition to the current president of Ingushetia, Murat Zyazikov.[4]
Currently (Oct 18, 2008), Gutseriyev is believed to be living in Great Britain. Russia has requested his extradition.[5]
Alleged murder of his son
On August 22, 2007 Mikhail Gutseriyev's 22-year-old son, Chingiskhan Gutseriyev, died suddenly at home. On this day he had been involved in a minor car accident. Someone from an emergency car gave him a shot, allegedly with a poison.[6] He came home, called relatives to say that he was fine, went to sleep, and died from heart failure. There was no data on a car accident in the bulletins of the Office of Internal Affairs.[7]
According to Yulia Latynina, Chingiskhan was murdered to lure his father back to Russia and arrest him there.[6]
Arrest warrant
On August 28, 2007 the Tver Court in Moscow issued a warrant for the arrest in absentia of Gutseriyev in response to a petition from the investigative committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.[8]
The arrest warrant was cancelled by the court on October 27, 2009.[9] The charge of tax evasion was dropped, and that led to his warrant being cancelled, but he apparently still faces the charge of "illegal enterpreneurship" (the top punishment on that charge is below 5 years, house arrest is the usual measure for "less serious" crimes like that and arrest warrants are not issued.)[10]
Government and social awards
The Order of Friendship, the Order of the Mark of Distinction, and other orders and medals. He won the Peter the Great National Prize, as well as being named "Best Mayor of the Year" by the magazine Kompaniya.
Mikhail Gutseriyev has authored papers and a series of scientific publications on the problems of development of free economic zones and off-shore business in Russia.
He also holds a degree in athletics for the decathlon.
References
- ^ http://www.wealthyrussian.com/gutseriev-michael-biography.html
- ^ Gutseriyev goes into science. Businessman announces sell-off of all he owns // Vedomosti, No. 140 (1914), July 31, 2007 (Russian)
- ^ Гуцериев научит // Взгляд, 31 июля 2007
- ^ Person of the Week: Observer // Vedomosti No. 149 (1923), August 13, 2007
- ^ October 6, 2008 article in the Kommersant online daily. http://www.kommersant.com/p-13343/r_529/Mikhail_Gutseriev_Russneft/
- ^ a b Syndrom of a Major, by Yulia Latynina, www.ej.ru internet journal
- ^ Смерть без протокола // Газета.Ru, 23 августа 2007
- ^ Сообщение РИА Новости
- ^ Гуцериев оправдан
- ^ Гуцериев может спать спокойно?
External links
- Official Biography (Russian)
- NK Russneft (Russian)
- Article by Gutseriyev explaining reasons for leaving Russneft (Russian)
Categories:- Living people
- 1958 births
- Russian oil industrialists
- Russian businesspeople
- Members of the State Duma of the Russian Federation
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