Rotenberg Arkady Romanovich

Rotenberg Arkady Romanovich

Rotenberg Arkady Romanovich - Chairman of the Board of Directors of SMP Bank. The main shareholder of Stroygazmontazh LLC.

Aktivs

Arkady Rotenberg's main assets are concentrated:

• finance (SMP-Bank - 36.8%, Investkapitalbank - together with his brother own 80% of the shares);
• construction (Stroygazmontazh LLC^[1]Parity IC - 50%, Mostotrest IC^[2]North-West Concession Company^[3]
• pipe industry (Northern European Pipe Project LLC - together with his brother own 76% of the shares);
• chemical industry (OJSC Minudobreniya - 79.6% of shares);
• telecommunications (Rostelecom) - 10.7%.

Minority co-owner (12.5%) of the Moscow Hotel .

State

It ranks 92nd in the ranking of the Russian-language version of Forbes "Richest Businessmen Russia - 2011." Arkady Rotenberg's fortune is estimated at 1.1 billion# dollars^[4]

It ranks 94th in the ranking of the Russian-language version of Forbes "The Richest Businessmen of Russia - 2012"^[5].

Biography

Born December 15, 1951 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Until the age of 12, he was fond of acrobatics.

1964 - began to engage in wrestling (sambo, then judo) with coach Anatoly Rakhlin, in the same group with Vladimir Putin.

1978 - graduated from the Leningrad State University of Physical Culture named after P.F. Lesgaft. Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences^[6].

For more than 15 years he worked as a judo and sambo coach in sports clubs in Leningrad.

1991 - co-founder of AOZT Baltic Business Partners.

1993 - took over the "Grant Firm."

1995 - co-founder of Shield Security Company LLC.

1995 - co-founder of SRC LLC.

1997 - founder of the Foundation "International Information and Analytical Center."

1998 - General Director of the St. Petersburg Sports Club of Judo "Yavara-Neva," whose honorary president was Vladimir Putin^[1].

2000 - Member of the Board of Directors of the St. Petersburg company Talion (development, gambling, hotel, restaurant business).

2001: Co-owner of SMP-Bank

2001 - co-owner and chairman of the board of directors of Northern Sea Route Bank (SMP-Bank).

2002 - Member of the Board of Directors of SMP-Bank.

2004 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of SMP-Bank.

2007: Founder of Stroygazmontazh

2007 - founder of Stroygazmontazh LLC.

2008: Novorossiysk port and purchase of Gazprom construction contractors

2008 - co-owner of Kadina Ltd. (controls Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port).

2008 - acquired five construction firms specializing in the implementation of Gazprom's investment program: Lengazspetsstroy, Volgogradneftemash, Spetsgazremstroy, Krasnodargazstroy and Volgogaz.

2009: Founder of SMP Insurance

2009 - founder of the insurance company "SMP-insurance."

2010: Purchase of the Northern European Pipe Project

2010 - together with his brother Boris Rotenberg, they acquired the Northern European Pipe Project company.

2011: Purchase of Gazprom Drilling and Mineral Fertilizers

He is a member of the board of directors of the company-developer of the toll road Moscow-Petersburg through the Khimki forest^[7].

2011 - ^[8], a subsidiary of Gazprom, acquired Gazprom Drilling LLC^[8].

2011 - reached an agreement on the acquisition of an enterprise OJSC "Minudobreniya" located in the city of Rossosh, Voronezh Region^[9]

2012: Court with house builders in Zhukovka, leader in terms of government orders

2012 - Sues German construction company Deutsche Werkstatten Hellerau. Plaintiffs demand termination of the contract with the contractor. The agreement concerns the implementation of repair work and interior decoration of a residential building in the village of Zhukovka, along the Rublevsky highway^[2].

2012 - SC Mostotrest, co-owned by Arkady Rotenberg, received the right to build a road junction on the M27 highway in Sochi^[3].

2012 -^[10] in the^[10].

2012 - Forbes magazine headed the list of businessmen who received the largest state orders in four years^[11].

2013: Purchase of a stake in Rostelecom

In February 2013, the Marshall Capital fund of Konstantin Malofeev sells its 10.7% stake in Rostelecom to the structure of businessman Arkady Rotenberg, news agencies reported, citing a statement from Marshall Capital.

"Under the terms of the transaction, the Universal Telecom Investments Strategies fund, 100% of which is owned by Marshall Capital, sells its stake in Rostelecom, which accounts for 10.7% of the authorized capital, to Bellared Holdings Limited, owned by Arkady Rotenberg," it was reported

In assessing the value of the sold package, sources close to the parties to the transaction differ - amounts from 47 to 56 billion rubles are called.

Rotenberg is chairman of the board of directors of SMP Bank and owns a number of other assets. Forbes estimated his fortune in 2012 at $1 billion. The businessman was professionally engaged in judo and was a sparring partner of Vladimir Putin. Now, according to Forbes, Rotenberg heads the sports club of judo "Yavara-Neva"; the honorary president of the club is Vladimir Putin.

Arkady Rotenberg, through the board of directors, intends to participate in the management of Rostelecom, Vedomosti writes. Artem Obolensky, president of the NSR Bank owned by Arkady and his brother Boris Rotenberg, said that they support the company's current strategy and believe that it will help increase the capitalization of^[12].

2020: US financial intelligence charge over use of Barclays Bank accounts to evade sanctions

In September 2020, US financial intelligence claims that Arkady Rotenberg could use Barclays Bank in London "to launder money and evade US sanctions."

In 2008, Barclays opened an account for Rotenberg's company called Advantage Alliance. And between 2012 and 2016, the company transferred £60m. Many of the transactions came after the Rotenberg brothers were sanctioned.

In July 2020, the US Senate, during an investigation, accused the Rotenberg of using expensive works of art to evade sanctions - one of the companies involved in the scheme was the same Advantage Alliance.

US investigators concluded Advantage Alliance was Rothenberg's and that the company used its Barclays account in London to buy millions of dollars worth of artwork for it. So on June 17, 2014, the company sent money from Moscow to the Alliance Barclays account in London. The next day, Barclays sent $7.5 million to the seller of Rene Magritte's Poitrin painting in New York.

In April 2016, Barclays launched an internal investigation into several accounts that were linked to the Rotenbergs. Six months later, the bank closed its Advantage account after worrying it was being used to transfer suspicious funds.

Other Barclays accounts linked to the Rotenberg remained open until 2017. Ayrton Development Limited had one such account.

2021: Confiscation of €4 million from Latvian bank accounts

As part of an investigation by the State Security Service (SGB) of Latvia, the court confiscated about 4 million euros from accounts with Latvian banks from a company allegedly associated with Arkady Rotenberg's NSR Bank. The companies did not formally belong to the billionaire, but carried out transactions in the interests of Rotenberg, who appears on the sanctions list.

In 2019, the Latvian State Security Service opened two criminal trials in connection with a possible violation of EU sanctions . Three foreign companies attracted attention - two of them were clients of ABLV banka, the third - Industria banka. One of them, possibly Cypriot Epaster Investments, she held 1.5 million euros in Indestra Bank.

The transfers were suspicious according to investigators, so at the request of the State Security Service, the courts agreed to confiscate the money, approximately four million euros - as obtained by criminal means. The US has long added the Rotenberg brothers to the sanctions list. Therefore, they sold the Latvian SMP banka, which was later renamed Industra.

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.

2023: Arrest of Ocean Plaza shopping center in Kyiv

On March 20, 2023, the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the Servant of the People party, David Arakhamia, announced the arrest in the country of the assets of Russian billionaire Arkady Rotenberg, who is under international sanctions from the European Union, the United States, Great Britain and several other countries. Read more here.

Social and political activities

Honored Coach and Honored Worker of Physical Culture of the Russian Federation^[6].

Vice-President of the Judo Federation of the Russian Federation.

Chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Judo Union.

Head of the Supreme Council of the National Union of Judo Veterans and the International Judo Development Fund.

Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, author of more than 30 educational, methodological and scientific works in the field of organization and management of the training process.

Hobbies

Acrobatics, sambo, judo^[6].

Marital status

Married, two children^[13]

In April 2023, the High Court of London issued a warrant for the arrest of Arkady Rotenberg's ex-wife Natalia due to failure to appear in court. A complaint against her was filed by British lawyers representing her in a dispute with her ex-husband over property in England. Lawyers argue that the defendant did not pay for their services or respond to attempts to contact her.

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