Mints Boris Iosifovich - Chairman of the Board of Directors of O1 Group, specializing in investments in various sectors of the economy, including real estate, finance and industry; former co-owner, president and chairman of the Board of Directors of FC Otkritie; former general director of Media Holding REN-TV LLC, the main beneficiary of the investment company O1 Properties, former chairman of the executive committee of PP Union of Right Forces, member of the board of RSPP.
Property
The family of Boris Mints as of July 2019 turned out to be the owners of three estates and four hotels in the UK, a residential skyscraper in Israel, 21 real estate objects in Russia, as well as 92 offshore companies of different jurisdictions and 15 Russian companies.
In Surrey, the Mints family (who specifically and through which structures is not specified) owns the Summerwynds estate, which in 2016 put up for sale for £13.5 million, and was sold in 2017 for £9.5 million. As the realtors pointed out, the house, in which expensive repairs were made, stands on a plot of 0.58 hectares. The total area of the mansion is over 5 thousand square meters. m. It has six bedrooms, a wine storage room, an indoor swimming pool and its own home cinema.
Near Summerwinds , the Mints have another estate - Montagu House (Montague House). The area of the mansion is 4.26 thousand square meters. It has six bedrooms, 5 living rooms, a swimming pool, a land area of 0.44 hectares. Montagu House was estimated at £13.9 million.
In Scotland, Mintz owns Lethendy Tower Castle . It has eight bedrooms, seven bathrooms and a swimming pool. Nearby is a tennis court and golf course. In 2016, the facility was estimated at £4.6 million.
Biography
Born July 24, 1958 in Ivanovo, Moldova, in the family of a military engineer.
1980 - graduated from Ivanovo State University with a degree in Theoretical Physics.
Candidate of Technical Sciences. Associate Professor.
1983: Associate Professor at the Ivanovo Textile Academy
1983-1990 - Assistant, Associate Professor, Department of Higher Mathematics, Ivanovo Textile Academy.
1989 - Deputy of the Ivanovo City Council.
1990: Deputy Head of the Administration of Ivanovo
1990-1994 - Deputy Head of the Administration of the city of Ivanovo (oversaw privatization issues).
1993 - Head of the Association of Chairmen of Committees and Funds of Cities. Russia
1994: Head of the Department in the Ministry of State Property Management
1994-1996 - Head of the Department for Regional Policy, Privatization and Delimitation of Property of the Ministry of State Property of the Russian Federation.
1996 - Head of the Department for Ensuring the Activities of the Council for Local Self-Government under the President of the Russian Federation.
1997: Head of the Office of the President of the Russian Federation for Local Self-Government
1997 - Head of the Office of the President of the Russian Federation for Local Self-Government and at the same time Deputy Secretary of the Council for Local Self-Government of the Russian Federation.
1998 - in the government commission for the reform of housing and communal services in the Russian Federation.
2000: Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Union of Right Forces Party
2000 - by decree of the acting President of the Russian Federation dismissed from the post of head of the department for local self-government.
2000 - was elected president of the Association of Chairmen of Committees and Funds of Russian Cities, chairman of the council of the Fund for Support of Democratic Unity.
2000-2001 - Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Union of Right Forces PP.
2001 - Elected to the federal political council of the Union of Right Forces PP.
2001 - resigned as chairman of the executive committee of the Union of Right Forces PP with the motivation "in connection with the transition to another job."
2004 - re-elected with the composition of the Federal Political Council of the PP "Union of Right Forces."
2004 - Secretary of the Presidium of the Political Council of the Union of Right Forces PP on regional policy.
2005 - headed the financial and budget committee of the Union of Right Forces PP.
Member of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
Boris Mints after the XIX Congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs: Not all businessmen support Putin
2001: CEO of REN TV
2001-2003 - General Director of Media-Holding REN TV LLC.
2003 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC VEO - Otkritie (stock broker).
2003 - CEO of the East European Investment Company.
2001-2003 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of the universal printing company ZAO Almaz-Press.
2004: Creator and head of FC Otkritie
2004 - created FC Otkritie.
2004 - 2013 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Otkritie FC.
2010: Creation of O1 Properties
2010 - bought from businessman Sergei Gordeev the Horus Capital company, which owns five business centers.
2010 - Creates O1 Properties to manage investments in commercial real estate.
2013: Estimated wealth of $900 million
It ranks 120th in the ranking of the Russian-language version of Forbes "The Richest Businessmen of Russia - 2013." Boris Mints's fortune is estimated at $900 million[1].
He is the owner of the O1 Group, a private holding company specializing in investments in various sectors of the economy, including real estate, industry and the financial sector.
Real estate: investment company O1 Properties.
Pension insurance: NPF Telecom-Soyuz, NPF Stalfond.
Industry: HC "BOR."
2018
Emigration to Britain
Businessman and state adviser of the 1st class Boris Mints, who fell under US sanctions, left Russia and went to London with his three sons, Vedomosti reported on May 28, 2018.
It is assumed that Mintz left due to financial problems that arose at his company O1 Group (controls assets in the field of real estate and finance). Its debt to the Moscow Credit Bank is 25 billion rubles. The entrepreneur also suffered losses due to the reorganization of Otkritie Bank, of which he was a shareholder: losses amounted to about 12 billion rubles.
Analysts believe that Mintz could cope with the credit burden if not for the sanctions from the United States. He was American included in the sanctions list along Oleg Deripaska with as a person close to the president, according Russia Vladimir Putin to the US authorities.
Having ceased to be a resident of the Russian Federation, Mints can maintain control over its assets with the help of various offshore companies.
According to Forbes magazine for 2017, Mints's fortune reached $1.3 billion: he occupied 72nd place in the list of the richest businessmen in Russia. In addition, Boris Mints is the founder of the Museum of Russian Impressionism, created with the money of private patrons.
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O1 Properties moves from Boris Mints to Pavel Vashchenko's Cyprus Riverstretch Trading & Investmens
In September 2018, the transfer O1 Properties the Cyprian to Riverstretch Trading & Investmens Limited was completed, which in early July acquired 70% of the shares of the class A company and 58% of the shares of class B.[2]
The reporting of the funds, which are required to disclose the ultimate owners, states that RT&I is controlled by Pavel Vashchenko (90%) and Valery Mikhailov (10%).
The transfer of O1 Properties and FG The future took place as part of the settlement of O1 Group's obligations to the Moscow Credit Bank, the press service of O1 Properties said.
2020
Wanted list and arrest in absentia
At the end of January 2020, the Investigative Committee put Boris Mints on the international wanted list in the embezzlement case. Banks Trust and Otkritie demand $700 million from him.
Investigators asked the court to arrest the businessman and his sons in Russia in absentia. Mintz acquired passports from several states and at that time lives with his sons in London.
$700 million fraud charge
In early August 2020, the ex-owners of Binbank and Otkrytie were accused of fraud worth $700 million. Former owner of Rost-Bank and majority shareholder of Binbank Mikail Shishkhanov, ex-chairman of the board of Otkritie FC Vadim Belyaev and main shareholder of Otkritie FC bank Yevgeny Dankevich became co-defendants in the suit of Trust and Otkritie banks, which is being considered in the High Court of London. Read more here.
2021
Interpol refuses to arrest Boris Mints
As it became known in May 2021, Russia was unable to achieve the arrest of Boris Mints in other countries. The Interpol Commission refused a request to search for him and his sons Dmitry and Alexander, who was sent by the National Central Bureau of Interpol in Russia.
Trust and Otkritie filed an application with the Moscow court to recognize the decision of the London court
Bank of non-core assets "Trust," which specializes in the return of debts of banks sanitized by the Central Bank, filed an application with the Moscow court to recognize the decision of the London court in the case of Boris Mints and Alexander Nesis (Centimila Services, Nori Holding and Coniston Management).
Trust and Otkritie are trying to recover about $700 million from Mints and his sons in the High Court of London, where the businessman and his family moved in 2018.
The amount of claims against three companies is 35 billion rubles. and concerns the purchase of illiquid bonds maturing in 2032 shortly before the bank became the property of the Central Bank. In fact, we are talking about the substitution of liquid for illiquid assets before the collapse of the bank.
O1 Group Finance with Otkritie and Rost Bank purchased O1 bonds shortly before the Central Bank sanitized Otkritie (it owned Trust) in 2017, and soon Binbank (it was the owner of Rost Bank). Otkritie bought bonds for $500 million (about 30 billion rubles at that time), Growth Bank - for $350 million (21 billion rubles), and with the money received, the group repaid loans to the same banks and released collateral.
2023: A court in London refused to suspend the process to compensate the Mints family for $850 million in damage due to sanctions against Russia
The High Court in London on January 27, 2023 ruled that the trial of Russian businessman Boris Mints and his sons Dmitry, Alexander and Igor for compensation for damage in the amount of $850 million cannot be suspended due to the sanctions regime, Britain reports Reuters.
Lawyers for Boris Mints in mid-December 2022 tried to suspend the process, saying that the Russian state-controlled banks FC Otkritie and Trust, one of which is under sanctions, could not claim damages. These funds can be sent directly to the Russian government, a former government official explained.
Hobbies
"I am a lark, I get up at 6-7 in the morning and play chess on the Internet with someone from Khabarovsk or Irkutsk, I have a nickname Fedya," Boris Mints says about himself.
He loves to travel with his wife by car to the provinces of Italy and France.
He loves to cook, hunt ducks[4].
The dream is to create a chain of restaurants in Moscow[4].
Interesting facts
- He won the All-Union competition "Teacher through the eyes of students."
- Boris Mints's apartment is made in the Ardeco style, the design was carried out by his wife Marina[3].
- The loudest deal is the purchase of the Lesnaya Plaza business center in Moscow (49,000 m2).
- He plays in the stock market, periodically buys securities in order to feel like a client.
- 2010 - acquired Horus Capital from Senator Sergei Gordeev (five business centers in Moscow with a total area of 190,000 square meters). The transaction amount is $200 million. Together with real estate, Mints had to take on $600 million in debts to banks.
Acknowledgments and diplomas
- Gratitude to the President of the Russian Federation for services to the state related to the completion of the first stage of check privatization.
- Gratitude for active participation in the preparation of the Address of the President of the Russian Federation to the Federal Assembly of 1998
- Gratitude to the Head of the municipal formations - Shilovsky municipal district for active and fruitful cooperation in supporting and developing the social sphere of the Shilovsky municipal district.
- Certificate of honor of the Head of the municipality - Shilovsky municipal district for fruitful and meaningful social partnership, attention and support to the Shilovsky municipal district.
Marital status
Married. Three sons.
- Wife - Marina Mintz. In 2019, a divorce was filed.
- Son - Dmitry Mints[5]
- Son - Alexander Mints[6].
- Son - Igor Mints.
Notes
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