Sergei Pugachev is an entrepreneur, politician, and a major investor. For a long time he was the chairman of the board of directors of the International Industrial Bank. He defended two dissertations, published three monographs.
Sergey Viktorovich Pugachev was born in Kostroma on 1963-04-02. He was the owner of Mezhprombank, an international investor, and a politician. He has written three monographs and over 40 scientific articles.
Biography and personal life
S. Pugachev's parents are hereditary military men. Grandfather served as an officer in the imperial army, the second held a commanding position in the Red Army. My father also served in the Airborne Forces, commanded an assault brigade.
Graduated from Leningrad State University. A. A. Zhdanova. He is a candidate of economic sciences and a doctor of technical sciences. He has a wife and two children. He mainly lives in America or France, he comes to Russia mainly to resolve business issues.
The wife is a co-founder of CJSC Investtatneft. The company, through OOO Neftetransstroy, controls a 16% stake in Mezhprombank. The husband strongly supports his wife in her professional field. In 2010, information appeared in the media about a new relationship with Briton Alexandra Tolstaya, but Pugachev refused to comment on this. One of the sons became the owner of the France Soir newspaper in 2009. Its advertising has been invested 20 million euros. A little later, the newspaper was declared bankrupt.
Since the late 1980s. Sergei Pugachev is engaged in entrepreneurial activity. In 1986 he was sentenced to three years in prison with confiscation of property. He served his punishment at construction sites in the Yaroslavl Region.
The entrepreneur is a religious person. For this he received the nickname "Orthodox banker". A fairly large part of the profit donates to charitable institutions. Provides on an ongoing basis support to the nunnery located in the Moscow region. The mentor is Abbot Tikhon, according to some sources he is also the unofficial confessor of V. V. Putin. The businessman sponsored:
- Orthodox Television Information Agency;
- magazine "Radonezh";
- magazine "Russian House".
Political activity
Since the beginning of the 90s, Pugachev was an adviser to the head of the presidential administration. He was one of the leaders of the election headquarters of B. Yeltsin, for which he was subsequently awarded a letter of thanks from the president. It noted that the politician made a great contribution to the formation of Russian democracy. In 1998, S. Pugachev became a member of the Russian delegation to Washington to negotiate support for Russia by the International Monetary Fund after the default.
Political life:
- 1999-2000 - head of the election headquarters of V. V. Putin;
- 2000-2003 - Vice President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs;
- 2001-2011 - Member of the Federation Council from the government of Tuva;
- 2009 - Pugachev became a French citizen.
Loud lawsuits
In 2013, a criminal case was initiated against an entrepreneur in Russia. A claim was filed to bring a French citizen to subsidiary liability to the Moscow Arbitration Court. Then the Investigative Committee puts the businessman on the wanted list in the Mezhprobmanka case.
It was assumed that deliberate bankruptcy was provoked. Employees destroyed not only the database, but also its backup copy. The damage from this could exceed 60 billion rubles, and the bankruptcy itself was associated with the issuance of doubtful loans to structures affiliated with the bank.
In 2014, Russian representatives applied to the High Court of London with a request for interim measures in support of a civil subsidiary claim. On July 11 of the same year, the judge ruled to freeze assets in England. It also contained coercion to disclose all assets belonging to Pugachev in all countries. In March 2015a ban was imposed on leaving England. Two months later, the police found explosive devices under the entrepreneur's personal cars. Therefore, the family was granted state protection. Sergei Pugachev has been repeatedly assassinated both in Russia and abroad.
In 2015, Pugachev filed a $ 12 billion lawsuit against Russia in the arbitration court in The Hague. In December of the same year, the High Court of Justice of England and Wales issued an arrest warrant for Pugachev on contempt of court. A two-year prison sentence was issued. In the decision, the judge noted that Pugachev had good reason to believe that his life was in danger, she was threatened by agents of the Russian Federation.
Business
In 1990 S. Pugachev worked at Stroybank, but this information has not been proven to this day. At the same time, he met Vladimir Putin and Igor Sechin. In 1991, the entrepreneur founded his own business, the Northern Trade Bank. At the same time, he began to work at Mezhprombank, became the chairman of the board of directors. In 2002, he resigns from the post, Sergei Veremeenko becomes the head. At the same time, it became known that the family members of the entrepreneur remained the main owners of the financial institution.
In the late 90s, the businessman was actively buying up shares of shipbuilding and machine-building enterprises in St. Petersburg. Severnaya Verf, Baltiyskiy Zavod, Iceberg came under management. Analysts have estimated the new asset at $ 700 million. After modernization and thanks to joint work with IMG, the largest surface shipbuilding center in Europe was created. After a while, all shipbuilding assets were expropriated by the state without compensation.
