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Company Info May 17th, 2010
Vladimir Lisin, a steel businessman, ordained a new richest man in Russia. Lysine wealth increases when the financial crisis made the Moscow millionaires lost a lot of wealth.
According to published Russian magazine, Finans, wealth Novolipetsk steel company leaders had increased to $ 18, 8 billion this year, from $ 77 billion in 2009. Lysine worth half of the assets Microsoft founder Bill Gates to reach $ 40 billion. The report was published two months before the Russian edition of Forbes magazine declared the richest man in the country.
Last year Lisin ranked 93rd richest person in the world with a fortune of $ 5, 2 billion. Lysine name which means “cunning” is a millionaire who rarely troubled by the Government of the Kremlin. The success of 53-year-old man was a rare example. Because, in Russia a career man in the world of steel that can rarely be a king of the industry.
Generally, the billionaire who controlled the steel industry sector is successful investors buy companies owned by former Russian Government. Siberian steel institute graduate and former senior manager of a steel company in the late 1980s was able to learn quickly after the destruction of the Soviet Union. He joined the companies buying the Russian government privatized in the 1990s.
He then took part in the market of this century. As a young partner of the influential brothers, Mikhail and Lev, Lysine helps the company Trans World Group (TWG). TWG is a broker who became liaison with the political elites in Russia during Boris Yeltsin’s presidency, with the aim of selling access to some profitable steel company.
Lysine also get access to buy steel companies, aluminum and copper in Russia. Sometimes the government to acquire the company, Lysine use force, or which is known in Russia as “aluminum wars” of the 1990s. However, the wealth and the image faded because TWG a dispute between Lysine and brother. Do not want to get stuck in a dispute, Lysine took over the company’s most modern steel is Lipetsk.
“War” between Lysine and other billionaires continue. He is competing with the king of nickel Vladimir Potanin bought a majority stake and businessmen from the United States (U.S.) George Soros. Lysine was finally mastered Lipetsk. Lipetsk is known as NLMK, and began trading on the London stock market in 2005. In quick time the company’s profits rose sharply and became an exporter of steel to China and continue to develop a steel company in America.
Although the flying NLMK, Lysine is known as a millionaire who rarely appears in public and the media. He’s often said it would buy companies in the West. However, he rarely boasted to buy a football club or luxury sailing boat as most of the other Russian billionaires. In 2005 the British media reported that Lisin has bought the castle relic of the 16th century in Scotland for $ 10, 5 million.
The man who is married and has three children that build the center’s largest pigeon shooting in Russia. In resting place, “the Fox’s Den” Lysine is often met with influential Russian politicians, including Prime Minister (PM) Vladimir Putin.
Meanwhile, Finans reported that second-richest man in Russia is the billionaire owner Mikhail Prokhorov Onexim Investment property value reaches USD17, 85 billion, increase compared with last year that only $ 14, 1 billion. In the third place ranking soccer club owner Roman Abramovich to Chelsea worth USD17 billion in 2010, up from USD13, 9 billion years ago.
