Аннотация: An attempt of super-brief comparison of Belarusian businessmen Pinkevich and Gutseriev.
An attempt of super-brief comparison of Belarusian businessmen Pinkevich and Gutseriev.
1. Parents.
The parents of Igor Konstantinovich Pinkevich are geologists; there are related roots in Belarus.
Parents of Mikail (Mikhail) Safarbekovich Gutseriev. Father was a senior investigator for especially important cases of the Akmola regional department of the NKVD, mother is a housewife. Related roots are in Ingushetia. The family was repressed in 1944.
2. Education.
Pinkevich - Novosibirsk Higher Military-Political School. Retired from the army with the rank of captain.
Gutseriev - evening department of the chemical-technological faculty of the Dzhambul Technological Institute of Light and Food Industry (specialization in Leather and Fur Technology).
2. Main business interests.
Pinkevich - food industry (... three hundred and eighty thousand hectares of land, sixteen elevators, seven pig farms, five large poultry farms ...).
Gutseriev - banking, hydrocarbons.
3. Relationship with political structures:
Pinkevich - there are no political ties of high level. (Presumably (in Russia) - Yuri Luzhkov).
Gutseriev - ties with the Liberal Democratic Party (Russia) (in the past - Gutseriev was the vice-speaker of the State Duma from the Liberal Democratic Party); ties with Lukashenko (Belarus) and others.
5. Personal crisis and getting out of it.
Pinkevich - arrest in August 2017. Various banks bought out the debts of Pinkevich's company and filed for bankruptcy.
Gutseriev - In 2007, he fled to London from criminal prosecution (according to some unconfirmed references, through Belarus). "I left through Belarus, just got into the car at night, called a plane to Minsk and flew away," he says. ("Lukashenko unswervingly trusts him." How a "reliable" person Gutseriev became a trusted figure [of Lukashenko's regime] in Belarus. October 5, 2017 at 08:37. TUT.BY). (https://news.tut.by/economics/563227.html) [unofficial translation]
6. Business in Belarus.
Pinkevich - a trading house of Pinkevich in Belarus has been sold.
Gutseriev - In 2017, Gutseriev's company "Slavkali" began construction of a potash plant in Belarus worth $ 2 billion. This is the largest project that a private company is implementing in the post-Soviet space. The State Development Bank of China is involved in a financing of the project.
7. Additional information.
Pinkevich - suffered a stroke. Released under house arrest (?).
Gutseriev - In December 2017, with the active participation of Mikhail Gutseriev, the Republic of Belarus adopted Decree No. 8 "On the Development of the Digital Economy". In January 2019, as part of the implementation of Decree No. 8, the first in Belarus the cryptocurrency exchange in the CIS, Currency.com, was opened. Mikhail Gutseriev became the main investor of the cryptocurrency exchange. Gutseriev participated in the so-called inauguration of Lukashenko in 2020.
Summation.
Charged with the purchase of 5 villas on the Cote d'Azur with a total value of between 500 and 700 million, acquired through nominee holders. In December 2017, the French Court of Appeal increased the amount of the bail 8 times, and it reached 40 million euros. On June 28, 2018, a court in France decided to drop all charges against Kerimov. (Wikipedia).
It is better to enjoy life in a European paradise than to feel the risks of being (the risks of living) in dangerous worlds ...
December 2, 2020 12:49
Translation from Russian into English: December 2, 2020 16:57.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Опыт супер-краткого сравнения белорусских бизнесменов - Пинкевича и Гуцериева".