Maxim Vorobyov heads the Board of JSC “Russian Sea Group of Companies”.
A new participant will appear in the list of the 200 richest people in Russia, which is compiled by the local edition of Forbes.
For the first time in the top with a fortune of $ 550 million, an entrepreneur, the head of the Board of JSC “Russian Sea” Group of Companies and the head of the company “Russian Aquaculture” Maxim Vorobyov, the brother of the governor of the Moscow region Andrey Vorobyov, can be included.
According to the publication, Maxim Vorobyov is the son of deputy chairman of the Federation Council Yuri Vorobyov. He owns almost 3% of its shares in the mining and metallurgical company Evraz, as the company announced last June.
The entrepreneur’s share in it is estimated at $340 million. According to Vorobyov himself to the publication, he acquired it partly by taking a bank loan.
In addition, “Russian aquaculture” has managed to grow its capitalization by 80%, and Vorobyov’s share in it is 47.67% and is estimated at $270 million. The company, which in the 90s was called the Russian Sea, was founded by the Vorobyov brothers, Andrey and Maxim.
The current governor of the Moscow region sold his share to Maxim in 2002, when he began his political career.
Maxim Vorobyov is also the owner of a Russian-Singapore fund called Amereus Group.
According to the entrepreneur, the fund owns “about a dozen technology companies from Russia, Europe, the USA and Southeast Asia.”
Finally, Maxim Vorobyov owns 28% in one of the daughters of the developer “Airplane”, which began with the construction of housing in the Moscow region. That is why the entrepreneur could not become a shareholder of the parent company – there was a conflict of interests.
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