Rotenberg Boris Romanovich

Rotenberg Boris Romanovich

Boris Romanovich Rotenberg - entrepreneur, manager, co-owner and member of the board of directors of SMP Bank (OJSC Bank "Northern Sea Route")^[1]founder of LLC "Stroygazmontazh," shareholder of OJSC "Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port." Vice-President of the Judo Federation of Russia, Honored Trainer of Russia. Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences.

Aktivs

Boris Rotenberg's main assets are concentrated:

• in the financial sector (SMP Bank),
• in construction (Stroygazmontazh LLC),
• transport (OJSC Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port),
• food industry (OAO Rosspirtprom).

State

It ranks 170th in the ranking of the Russian-language version of Forbes "The Richest Businessmen of Russia - 2011." Boris Rotenberg's fortune is estimated at $550 million ^[2].

2020: Spyker investment

At the end of August 2020, it became known about Spyker's plans to resume production of sports cars thanks to the attraction of investments. Russian businessmen Boris Rotenberg and Mikhail Pessis decided to invest in the company. Read more here.

Biography

Born January 3, 1957 in St. Petersburg, Russia. He has citizenship of Russia and Finland.

1968: Acquaintance with Vladimir Putin in the judo section

1968 - enrolled in the sambo section to Anatoly Rakhlin, where his older brother Arkady and Vladimir Putin had already trained with ^[3].

In his youth, he played for the city team, was a repeated winner of the USSR championships and USSR Cups among young men and youth.

1974 - Master of Sports in Judo.

1978 - graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Physical Culture and Sports named after P.F. Lesgaft.

1980 - Master of Sports in sambo wrestling.

Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences.

Judo coach in Helsinki

1992 - coach of the professional judo club Chikara (Helsinki).

One of Rotenberg's Finnish firms in the late 1990s participated in barter schemes: construction in exchange for gas condensate, sometimes supplied equipment, and subsequently received in a row as part of a charity program Gazprom "for children" [. " ^[4]

2001: Co-founder of SMP Bank

2001 - founded NSR Bank with his brother.

2001 - gained control over part of the assets of Rosspirtprom OJSC^[5] the^[5].

2001 - General Director of the Society of Sports Martial Arts "Fatherland."

2003 - registered in Moscow two companies at the same address in Kolomensky proezd - "Baza-bargaining" and "Delivery."

2003-2004 - Junior partner of the concern in Gaztaged, through which pipes were purchased for Gazprom.

2008: Purchase of shares of Novorossiysk port

2008 - together with his brother, he acquired a 10% stake in Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port OJSC, bought five construction units (Volgogaz, Lenspetsstroygaz, Spetsgazremstroy, Volgogradneftemash and Krasnodargazstroy) from Gazprom, creating the Stroygazmontazh LLC corporation.

Stroygazmontazh and the Rotenberg Brothers

2009 - The Rotenberg brothers were mentioned as partners of the development company MSM-5, which won the tender of the Ministry of Defense for the construction of 225,000 m of ² housing in the Moscow Region.

In 2009, it became known about the participation of the Rotenberg brothers in the conflict over the Moscow Hotel.

Together and separately, Arkady and Boris Rotenberg founded several non-profit organizations, clubs and funds for supporting judo and sambo (Interregional Society for the Promotion of Sambo and Judo Development, non-profit foundation "Fan Club Yavara-Neva," Society for the Promotion of the Development of Martial Arts "Fatherland," Children's Youth Club "Yavara-M," School of Judo^[6] the Prime Minister^[6]

2010 - Companies controlled by Arkady and Boris Rotenberg submit an application to the Federal Antimonopoly Service to acquire the trader Northern European Pipe Project, a major pipe supplier to Gazprom^[7].

Boris Rotenberg is listed as the founder of the company "Pipe Industry"^[8].

2018: Property sale in Berlin

In December 2020, it became known that Arkady Rotenberg, being under US sanctions, had previously sold his Berlin real estate in a villa complex in Schmargendorf. Rotenberg's Cypriot company Olpon Investments sold its stake to daughter Lilia and a company owned by his brother Boris (both at that time co-owners in the villa complex) for 2.5 million euros. The deal was carried out and registered by the Berlin authorities. Later, in 2018, Lilia and Boris seamlessly sold the property for 8 million euros to a Bosnian multimillionaire.

In response to a request from an independent member of the Berlin parliament, Marcel Lute, as it happened, the Berlin authorities said that "they do not have data on the reasons why the EU imposed financial sanctions on Arkady Rotenberg, on the grounds of the sanction and on the time of entry into force." And Gerry Voop, who is the European Secretary of State in the Berlin administration, stressed that the Berlin administration is not responsible for the implementation and control over the implementation of sanctions, Transparency Russia reports.

2022: Sale of SMP Bank

On December 30, 2022, Promsvyazbank (PSB) announced the purchase of SMP Bank from Arkady and Boris Rotenberg. The powers of the board of directors and executive bodies of the bank (chairman of the board and members of the board) were terminated, a new apparatus of the board began to work. The powers of the board of directors are redistributed between the general meeting of shareholders and the board, the PSB said in a statement. Read more here.

Interesting facts

• On April 10, 2006, the Vyborg District Court St. Petersburg sentenced Boris Rotenberg, vice president of the Judo Federation, Russia president of the Yavara-Neva club, in the case of causing harm to health. The judoka suffered as a result of a road conflict - the driver of the Gazelle car that cut him off shot at Mr. Rotenberg from the Wasp special equipment. The judge qualified the prosecution as "Intentional infliction of minor harm to health" and sentenced^[9] defendant to a fine of 20 thousand rubles. "^[9]

• 2011 - Invests in Vitawin-branded sports nutrition to build a factory and create a dedicated retail network similar to the world-famous General Nutrition Centers^[10].

• March 23, 2012 - The City Planning and Land Commission (GZK) of the Moscow government approved a project to redevelop the headquarters of the NSR Bank, controlled by Arkady and Boris Rotenberg. According to experts, the cost of redevelopment could be about 280 million rubles^[11] in the ^[11].

• 2012 - was among the clients of the bankrupt American brokerage MF Global., SMP Bank owned by the Rotenberg brothers, lost £6.9 million (10.5 million) due to the bankruptcy of MF Global dollars ^[12]

• Boris Rotenberg, together with his brother Akrkadiy, invested 20 million euros in a hotel and congress hall in the Finnish province of Kirkkonummi, bought about 40 hectares of land for cottage construction in Lapland and plan to build a fish breeding plant in the Leningrad Region worth 5 million euros.

Family

Married, four children.

• The first wife is Irina Haranen^[13].

• The second wife is Karina Rotenberg.

• Son - Roman Rotenberg^[14].

• Son - Boris Rotenberg.

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