Born in 1995
Education
Student at the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy MGIMO, mastering the specialization "International Business and Business Administration"
Activity
At the end of 2014, the student became famous by buying the largest cinema chain in Russia, Cinema Park, from Vladimir Potanin (No. 1, $15.4 billion) for $300 million.
Moreover, as the interlocutors of Vedomosti insisted, on personal funds.
In April 2015, it became known that the owner of 40.22% of Polyus Gold is not only the Suleyman Kerimov Foundation, but also Said Kerimov personally. The exact distribution of shares was not disclosed.
"Family"
"Companies"
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"News"
The company of the son of Senator Kerimov pledged 17% of the shares of Polyus
Polyus Gold International Limited (PGIL), owned by the son of a Dagestan senator Said Kerimov, has pledged a 17% stake in Russia's largest gold miner, Polyus, the company said.
Sanctions against Suleiman Kerimov do not apply to Polyus
The US sanctions against Suleiman Kerimov do not apply to Polyus, the company said.
On April 6, 2018, the US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) placed Suleiman Kerimov (father) on the Blocking Sanctions List as a Specially Designated Person (SDN) pursuant to Executive Order 13661, dated March 18, 2014. Neither Said Kerimov, nor Polyus Gold International Limited (PGIL), nor PJSC Polyus, nor other companies that Said Kerimov directly or indirectly owns, have been included in the list of blocking sanctions as SDN.
Said Kerimov after SPO reduced his stake in Polyus to 82.4%
The gold mining company Polyus has published the results of its secondary offering on the London and Moscow stock exchanges. Polyus Gold International Limited (PGIL) Said Kerimov's stake in Polyus, registered on the island of Jersey, after the SPO amounted to 82.44% (before the placement it reached 91.7%).
Polyus of Said Kerimov sold securities to investors for $800 million
Said Kerimov's largest gold mining company in Russia, Polus, managed to convince investors to buy its shares at the lower end of the range ($66.5-70.6 per share), despite weak market conditions
Kerimov "ride" on Chemezov?
Said Kerimov's Polyus, which is in a difficult situation, unexpectedly got a powerful state corporation as a partner. Together with Rostec, the son of Suleiman Kerimov has almost 100% chances of winning the tender.
In other words, the joint venture was created to participate in the auction for Russia's largest undeveloped gold deposit, Sukhoi Log. Polyus and Rostec declined to comment.
Vekselberg plans to buy 17.02% of Rusal from Onexim within a month
It is planned to close the deal within a month, RNS reports. Vekselberg announced this at an investment forum in Sochi. He refused to disclose the amount of the transaction, and the Onexim press service declined to comment at all. Now the cost of the Onexim package is more than $800 million, but agency sources claim that Vekselberg offered a billion for it. Onexim owns 17.02% of the shares of Rusal, Sual Partners of Renova and Leonid Blavatnik - 15.8%.
FederalPress recalls that Said Kerimov was previously considered a contender for the purchase of Onexim's stake in Rusal. However, according to media reports, Sual Partners offered more.
PJSC Polyus bought out another 2.35% of its shares from its parent company Polyus Gold International Limited
The beneficiaries of Polyus Gold International Limited are the Suleyman Kerimov Foundation, established by Suleiman Kerimov, and the senator's son, Said Kerimov.
PJSC Polyus is the largest Russian gold mining company. It develops ore and alluvial deposits in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Irkutsk, Magadan and Amur Regions, as well as in Yakutia.
Kerimov's 20-year-old son thinks about buying back all shares of Polyus Gold
The son of Suleman Kerimov, Said, thought about buying out all the shares of the gold mining company Polyus Gold. He currently owns 40.2% of the shares. The purchase of all securities may require $5.4 billion
Work biography: where do the children of billionaires work?
Twenty-year-old student of MGIMO Said Kerimov thought about buying Polyus Gold
The son of businessman Suleiman Kerimov Said (he is 20 years old) intends to make an offer to the holders of 59.8% of the shares of the gold mining company Polyus Gold and buy securities from them at a price of $2.97 apiece, Sacturino Limited, owned by Said Kerimov, said. If the offer is made and all shareholders respond to it, Said Kerimov will have to spend $5.39 billion. At the same time, the entire company is valued at $9 billion (which is 3% higher than the average monthly capitalization), now the capitalization of Polyus Gold on the London Stock Exchange is $8.7 billion
Said Kerimov, bought the Cinema Park chain of cinemas from billionaire Vladimir Potanin for 18 billion rubles
Nineteen-year-old MGIMO student Said Kerimov, who is the son of Federation Council member Suleiman Kerimov, bought the Cinema Park chain of cinemas from billionaire Vladimir Potanin for 18 billion rubles. This was reported on Thursday, November 13, by the Vedomosti newspaper.
Conflict of interest of the Petrov family
Russian entrepreneurs associated with the civil service often pass the business on to children. For example, former senator and founder of Mezhprombank Sergey Pugachev told Forbes magazine that in the mid-2000s he rewrote the bank to a trust, 81% of which went to his two sons. Boris Titov, co-chairman of Business Russia, when he became the business ombudsman, transferred his 100% of the Abrau-Dyurso winery to his son Pavel. And in April of this year, the son of Dagestan Senator Suleiman Kerimov Said became one of the beneficiaries of Wandle Holdings Limited, which owns 40.22% of the largest gold mining company Polyus Gold.
Oligarchs 2.0
The son of Senator Suleiman Kerimov is a third-year student at the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO, majoring in International Business and Business Administration. At the end of 2014, the student became famous by buying Russia's largest cinema chain Cinema Park from Vladimir Potanin (No. 1, $ 15.4 billion) for $ 300 million. And, as Vedomosti's interlocutors insisted, at his own expense. In April 2015, it became known that the owner of 40.22% of Polyus Gold is not only the Suleyman Kerimov Foundation, but also Said Kerimov personally. The exact distribution of shares was not disclosed.
Ashot Yeghiazaryan pinched Suleiman Kerimov
What kind of assets of Kerimov are frozen, he refused to say. The person who saw the decision of the Cypriot court claims that among them is the Anji football club; cinema chain "Cinema Park" (formally its owner is the son of a businessman Said Kerimov); stakes in Polyus Gold and companies owning a building in Butikovsky Lane and shares in the Four Seasons Hotel Moscow; as well as personal property of a businessman. As you know, in 2015, Kerimov took 512th place in the Forbes list of the richest people on the planet and 31st in the ranking of the richest Russians. The magazine estimated his fortune at $3.4 billion against $6.9 billion a year earlier. Kerimov's largest assets are 40.22% of Polyus Gold (through the Suleyman Kerimov Foundation), a stake in the Moscow Hotel, part of the Eurasia Tower in Moscow City. The Kommersant newspaper recently reported that Kerimov was negotiating the sale of 100,000 sq. m of offices in the "Eurasia Tower": these areas, according to her, can get the VTB group.
Potanin's ex-wife counts her husband's money again
In the list of jointly acquired property, Potanin included assets at the beginning of 2007 - it was then, in his opinion, that his family relationship ended. At the same time, by the way, he announced a “divorce” with his longtime companion Mikhail Prokhorov. Business partners shared assets for a year, after which Potanin became the sole owner of Interros. Now the investment fund owns 30.27% of Norilsk Nickel, 100% of the ski resort Rosa Khutor, 90% of the developer of pharmaceuticals NPO Petrovax Pharm, 88% of the developer ProfEstate, 51% of the airport logistician Interport and 50% of the Internet holding Afisha (the ProfMedia holding was sold in 2014 to Gazprom-Media, the Cinema Park cinema chain, to the 19-year-old son of billionaire Suleiman Kerimov Said).
Wealthy heirs
In 2009, the list of billionaire children has changed somewhat.
Over the year, new offspring appeared in Russian rich families. But conditional inheritances have decreased many times not because of this. The sharp drop in interest in domestic assets is to blame.
The young son of Suleiman Kerimov buys the largest Russian cinema chain
The largest Russian network of cinemas "Cinema Park" is changing its owner. The new owner of the multiplexes will be 19-year-old MGIMO student Said Kerimov, the son of a well-known businessman and member of the Federation Council Suleiman Kerimov.
Twitter is discussing the purchase of "Cinema Park"
The Runet blogosphere is actively discussing the news about the purchase of the Cinema Park cinema chain by the son of billionaire Suleiman Kerimov, 19-year-old Said Kerimov.
Representatives of Vladimir Potanin's Interros company, which previously owned the cinema chain, have already announced the completion of the deal with Said Kerimov.
Said Kerimov bought the Cinema Park chain of cinemas from Vladimir Potanin
The son of Federation Council member Suleiman Kerimov, Said, has agreed with Interros owner Vladimir Potanin to acquire Cinema Park, the deal is nearing completion, a source close to the senator and an employee of Potanin's company said.
Denis Baysarov, Said Kerimov and other "eagles"
The name of another wealthy MGIMO student, 20-year-old Said Kerimov, also appears in these “groom lists”. He is the son of businessman and Dagestan senator Suleiman Kerimov, who is 31st on the Russian list of the richest people with a capital of $3.4 billion. However, Said himself already has a decent capital. He owns, according to Forbes magazine, a stake in his father's company, Polyus Gold. Of course, having such capital, student Said Kerimov can buy not only textbooks and stationery for study. Last year, for example, he became the owner of the Cinema Park chain of cinemas, which he acquired from the company of billionaire Vladimir Potanin. Experts estimate the cost of the transaction at 300-500 million dollars. Recently, information appeared in the media about Said's plans to buy another network - "Formula Kino", which can cost a student 250-300 million dollars.
Said Kerimov is among the main contenders for the cinema network
The owner of "Cinema Park" Said Kerimov can buy another cinema chain. The businessman is negotiating with the A1 investment holding (part of Alfa Group) to buy the Formula Kino cinema chain owned by him. This was reported to BK by several sources in the market at once. Formula Kino declined to comment on this issue.
The details of the negotiations and the terms of the deal are still unknown. According to some reports, the parties are still in the process of discussion, according to others, the deal is already at the final stage and could even get the approval of the Federal Antimonopoly Service. The FAS did not respond to an official request on this topic. The amount for which Formula Kino is being sold is also unknown - the investment holding did not comment to BK. Previously, market experts said that A1 would only sell the network for a good price.
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The children of Suleiman Kerimov were nominated to the Board of Directors of Polyus Gold ... Gold "included the children of a member of the Federation Council from Dagestan Suleiman Kerimov - Said and Gulnara, the company said. Candidates for the new composition ... in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Yakutia, Magadan and Amur Regions. Businessman Suleiman Kerimov acquired 37% of Polyus Gold for $1.3 billion from Vladimir... to be sold to ALROSA. However, at the end of November, Suleiman himself Kerimov denied the rumors. "This is a provocation, there was not and is not" - so he ...Business, 03 Mar 2016, 05:31
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Karimov's son offered to buy out the remaining stake in Polyus Gold Belonging to the son of Suleiman Kerimov - Said- Sacturino offered the shareholders of Polyus Gold, the largest gold miner in Russia, ... Yushvaev (20%) and Oleg Mkrtchan (20%). Father of MGIMO student Said, businessman Suleiman Kerimov, acquired 37% of Polyus Gold for $ 1.3 billion in ... the Suleyman Kerimov Foundation transferred the stake in the gold mining company to Said. Said also owns the Cinema Park chain of cinemas.Business, 03 Sep 2015, 17:20
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Kerimov's 20-year-old son thinks about buying back all shares of Polyus Gold ... $ 5.4 billion of securities may be required Twenty-year-old son of Suleiman Kerimov Said discusses the buyback of all securities of the gold mining company Polyus Gold. In... that the billionaire will take the company private to sell or attract partners. Said Kerimov became the beneficiary of Wandle Holdings Limited in April 2015. He is ... the formal owner of the Cinema-Park cinema chain. Currently twenty years old Kerimov studies at MGIMO. Elizabeth Focht Said Said Kerimov "Cinema Park" Said Kerimov began negotiations on the purchase of "Formula Kino" Structures of the owner of the Cinema Park network Said Kerimov (son of Suleiman Kerimov) are negotiating the purchase of their main ... relatively small. The combined company will be able to control almost 14% of all film distribution. Said Kerimov acquired Cinema Park from Vladimir Potanin's Interros at the end of 2014 ...Suleiman Abusaidovich Kerimov (Lezg. Kerimrin Abusaidan hwa Suleiman). Born March 12, 1966 in Derbent (Dagestan). Russian businessman and politician.
By nationality - Lezgins.
Father is a policeman.
Mother is an accountant, worked in the Sberbank system.
Suleiman is the youngest in the family. Has a brother, a doctor by profession. He also has a sister, she is a teacher of Russian language and literature.
During his school years he went in for sports - judo and kettlebell lifting. Repeatedly became the winner of various competitions. He studied well at school, the exact sciences were easy for him, and mathematics was his favorite subject.
After the first course, he was drafted into the army and served in the Strategic Missile Forces in 1984-1986. He was demobilized with the rank of senior sergeant as head of the calculation.
After demobilization, he transferred to the Faculty of Economics of the Dagestan State University, from which he graduated in 1989. While studying at DSU, he was a public activist, deputy chairman of the trade union committee of the university.
After graduation, he worked as an economist at the Eltav defense plant. He went from being an economist to assistant general director for economic affairs, which he became in 1995.
The growth of Suleiman Kerimov: 182 centimeters.
Personal life of Suleiman Kerimov:
Married. His wife's name is Firuza, she is his classmate at DSU. Father-in-law in the past, a major party functionary, chairman of the Dagestan Council of Trade Unions Nazim Khanbalaev. With his help, Karimov took the first steps in the career of a successful businessman.
Has three children.
Suleiman Kerimov, wife Firuz, children and mother
Had many high-profile novels. His scandalous personal life is constantly in the spotlight of the media.
He was in a relationship with a 1990s star singer. He, without hiding, appeared with the artist at social events. At one time they were even considered almost husband and wife. The businessman showered Natalia with expensive gifts and literally overwhelmed with money. “He spares nothing for me. He gives money in bags,” Vetlitskaya boasted to her friends.
After the affair with Kerimov, Vetlitskaya left a huge house in New Riga with 3,000 square meters. There were also rumors about an apartment in Paris donated to her and various expensive jewelry.
Natalia Vetlitskaya
Anastasia Volochkova
However, the affair with Volochkova quickly ended. Persons familiar with the situation explained this by the excessive greed of the ballerina, which pushed the businessman away from her. After the break with Kerimov, Volochkova started having problems in the theater.
Nastya tried to return her rich lover, even publicly confessed her love to him, but to no avail.
Anastasia Volochkova about Suleiman Kerimov
Olesya Sudzilovskaya
Zhanna Friske
The businessman had an affair with a TV presenter. This became known after November 26, 2006 in Nice (France) Kerimov got into an accident on his Ferrari Enzo - crashed into a tree. The airbags cushioned the impact, but burning fuel erupted from the fuel tank, starting a fire. The businessman, engulfed in flames, fell to the ground, trying to put out the burning clothes. He was helped by teenagers playing baseball on the lawn. This saved his life, although French doctors fought for it for a long time. He received severe burns, which is why he is now forced to wear flesh-colored gloves.
Together with Kerimov, Tina Kandelaki was in the car. As a memento of this incident, Tina received two tattoos. On the left wrist is one of the Reiki symbols - chokurei (jap. 超空霊 cho: kurei), the meaning of which has several interpretations, one of which allows you to speed up the healing process. On the left thigh is a Chinese character that means "mother". The tattoos are inflicted on the places of burns received as a result of the accident.
Tina Kandelaki
For 4 years he was in a relationship with designer Katya Gomiashvili (born 1978) - the daughter of a famous actor (he played Ostap Bender in Gaidai's 12 Chairs).
Ekaterina Gomiashvili, at the time of relations with Kerimov, opened a number of boutiques in Moscow and London. Top models Kate Moss and Devon Aoki took part in advertising Gomiashvili's clothing collections.
After parting with Kerimov, Ekaterina retired and left for Bali, where she gave birth to a daughter. There were rumors that it could be Kerimov's child, but officially a certain Italian is the father.
Entrepreneurial activity of Suleiman Kerimov
Since 1993, he has been living and working in Moscow - since the Eltav company and its subsidiaries established the Federal Industrial Bank. Suleiman was sent to him to represent the interests of Eltava.
In Moscow, the circle of his business acquaintances is expanding dramatically. The energy of the young businessman, the professionalism of the manager, the desire for independence did not go unnoticed.
In 1995, Kerimov accepted an offer to become deputy general director of the Soyuz-Finance company in Moscow.
Since April 1997 - Researcher at the International Institute of Corporations (Moscow).
At the end of 1999, Suleiman Kerimov bought shares in an oil trading company "Nafta-Moscow"- the successor of the Soviet monopoly Soyuznefteexport. Subsequently, this company became the main business tool of Kerimov.
In 2003, Nafta-Moskva received a loan from Vnesheconombank, which was invested in the shares of OAO Gazprom. Over the next year, Gazprom's share prices doubled and the loan was repaid within four months. In 2004, Sberbank provided Kerimov's structures with a loan in the total amount of 3.2 billion US dollars, which was also invested in shares, and subsequently fully repaid. By 2008, Nafta-Moskva owned 4.25% of the shares of Gazprom and 5.6% of the shares of Sberbank. In mid-2008, Kerimov completely withdrew from the share capital of Gazprom and Sberbank.
In November 2005, Nafta-Moskva acquired a 70% stake in "Polymetal"- one of the largest gold and silver mining holdings in Russia. In 2007, Polymetal successfully completed an IPO on the London Stock Exchange, after which Nafta-Moskva sold the company's shares.
In 2005, the Moscow City Hall and one of Kerimov's structures created a joint telecommunications venture Mosteleset, which became the sole shareholder of Mostelecom, the largest cable operator in Moscow. In 2007, the telecommunications assets were merged into the National Telecommunications holding and a year later they were sold to a consortium of investors led by Yuri Kovalchuk's National Media Group for $1.5 billion.
In 2003-2008, Nafta-Moskva developed the Rublyovo-Arkhangelskoye project, which was called the "city of millionaires" in the press, the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating belonged to Kerimov. Later, the project was sold to the president of Binbank, Mikhail Shishkhanov.
In the spring of 2009, Kerimov's structures took up the reconstruction project of the Moskva Hotel. After the completion of the reconstruction, a five-star Four Seasons hotel with a shopping center, offices and apartments was opened in the building. In 2015, Belarusian businessmen, the Khotin brothers, bought the hotel from Kerimov's structures.
In the spring of 2009, Kerimov's structures bought 25% of the shares "PEAK"- the largest developer in Russia. At that time, the PIK group of companies needed additional financial resources: the debt reached $1.98 billion, and capitalization fell to more than $279 million. Nafta-Moskva later increased its stake in PIK Group to 38.3%.
During the first 2 years of Kerimov's ownership (from 2009 to 2011), PIK restored financial stability and strengthened its position in the market. In December 2013, Kerimov sold the entire stake to Russian businessmen Sergey Gordeev and Alexander Mamut.
After losing during the economic crisis of 2008-2009, Kerimov changed his investment strategy and began to buy large enough blocks of shares to be able to influence the strategies of the companies in which he invests. In 2009, Nafta-Moskva bought a 37% stake in the company from Vladimir Potanin for $1.3 billion. "Polyus Gold"- the largest gold producer in Russia. Later, the stake was increased to 40.22%.
In 2012, the company held an IPO on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). At the end of 2015, Kerimov's structures consolidated the rights to 95% of the shares of Polyus Gold by redeeming shares from minority shareholders. The offer was followed by the delisting of Polyus Gold from the London Stock Exchange.
In April 2016, the children of the entrepreneur - Said and Gulnara - were included in the board of directors of PJSC Polyus Gold.
In June 2010, Kerimov and his partners Alexander Nesis, Filaret Galchev and Anatoly Skurov acquired a 53% stake in the potash giant Uralkali from the previous owner Dmitry Rybolovlev. The deal was valued at $5.3 billion. For this purchase, Kerimov received a significant loan from VTB.
As the world's largest producer of potash fertilizers, Uralkali sold products on the world market jointly with Belaruskali through a common sales company (BPC). In July 2013, Uralkali announced that it was withdrawing from the marketing agreement with Belaruskali, cutting prices and increasing production to maximum capacity in order to increase market share. On September 2, 2013, the Investigative Committee of Belarus opened a criminal case against Kerimov and a number of employees of Uralkali in the abuse of power and authority. On the evening of September 2, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus defiantly sent an application to Interpol to put Kerimov on the international wanted list, but Interpol denied the message of the Belarusian authorities about putting Kerimov on the “red list”, seeing a political motive in the request. Subsequently, the Belarusian authorities withdrew the request and closed all criminal cases.
In December 2013, Kerimov sold a 21.75% stake in Uralkali to businessman and 19.99% to Uralchem owner Dmitry Mazepin.
Invested outside of Russia, but unsuccessfully. In 2007, as markets around the world began to tumble, Kerimov reduced his holdings in Gazprom and other Russian blue chips and approached Wall Street to invest much of his fortune. In exchange, Kerimov was to receive more favorable credit terms for future loans. In 2007, Kerimov invested billions of dollars in Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and other financial institutions. Although neither Kerimov nor Western banks have disclosed the exact size of his investments, they are quite significant. Forbes magazine called Kerimov the largest private investor in Morgan Stanley. By 2008, according to Forbes, he withdrew the bulk of his capital from Russia by investing in shares of foreign corporations. Analysts estimate that during the economic crisis, this decision led to a loss of almost $20 billion as a result of margin calls.
Suleiman Kerimov's fortune: In the Forbes ranking of "200 richest businessmen in Russia" for 2017, he took 21st place with $ 6.3 billion. In 2016, according to Forbes magazine, his fortune was $6.1 billion. In previous years: 2013 - $7.1 billion; 2012 - $6.5 billion; 2011 - $7.8 billion; 2010 - $5.5 billion
Criminal prosecution of Suleiman Kerimov in France:
November 20, 2017 . Later it was clarified that - several tens of millions of euros. Four other alleged accomplices were also detained with him. He was ordered to hand over his passport of a Russian citizen to the French police and pay a bail of 5 million euros in order to avoid detention. In addition, he is obliged "to refuse meetings and contacts with a list of persons that we cannot disclose," the prosecutor said. This means that the billionaire senator will not be able to leave France.
Earlier in March 2017, the Nice Matin newspaper reported on a search at the Hier villa in France, which allegedly belongs to Kerimov. The searches took place on February 15 in connection with the investigation into the acquisition of real estate in France. According to the publication, the senator owns real estate in Antibes, the total area of which is 90 thousand square meters. The area of the villa itself reaches 12 thousand square meters. The billionaire's assistant then stated that Kerimov had no property outside of Russia. According to him, the newspaper's information is unreliable.
In June 2018, he himself was transferred to the category of witnesses.
From January 2011 to December 2016, Suleiman Kerimov was the owner of the Anji football club (Makhachkala), which plays in the Russian Football Premier League. Under him, the club acquired such well-known players as Yuri Zhirkov (Chelsea London) and Roberto Carlos (Corinthians Sao Paulo), super-forward Samuel Eto'o (Internationale, Milan).
In 2013, as part of the development of a new long-term strategy for the development of the club, it was decided to reduce the annual budget of the club to the level of 50-70 million dollars, compared with the previous budget of 180 million dollars per season. Most of the expensive foreign stars were sold, and the club made a bet on young Russian players.
In addition to financing Anji, a modern Anji Arena football stadium for 30,000 spectators was built near Makhachkala at the expense of Kerimov, and the Anji Children's Football Academy operates.
Political activities of Suleiman Kerimov
In 1999-2003, Suleiman Kerimov was a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the III convocation from the Liberal Democratic Party, was a member of the State Duma Committee on Security. In the period from 2003 to 2007, Kerimov was a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the IV convocation from the Liberal Democratic Party, and also served as deputy chairman of the committee on physical culture, sports and youth affairs.
Since 2008, Kerimov has become a member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation of the upper house of the Federal Assembly and represents the Republic of Dagestan.
The entire period of Kerimov's stay as a member of parliament, and then as a senator, the shares of enterprises owned by him, as well as other business assets, were in trust management, and since the end of 2013 they have been transferred to the Suleyman Kerimov Foundation.
In September 2016, he was re-elected as a senator from Dagestan in the Federation Council. In this regard, he prematurely terminated his powers as a deputy in the People's Assembly of Dagestan.
Said Kerimov is a well-known domestic entrepreneur, the son of a prominent businessman, billionaire Suleiman Kerimov. For several years he was the owner of one of the largest cinema chains in the country, Cinema Park, and is now on the board of directors of the gold mining company Polyus. We will tell about the brightest pages of his biography in this article.
Childhood and youth
Said Kerimov was born in 1995. He was born in Makhachkala. His father is a major Russian businessman, also a native of the Republic of Dagestan. His mother's name is Firuza Khanbalaeva. The parents of the hero of our article got married in their student years, since then they have been together.
Said Kerimov is their only son. He also has two sisters, one younger and the other older. Their names are Aminat and Gulnara.
Big businessman
Said Kerimov's father Suleiman is a major Russian businessman. He started active business in 1999. Then he began to take part in political life. In 1999 he was elected to the State Duma, and since 2008 he has been representing his native Republic of Dagestan in the Federation Council.
Experts estimate his fortune at more than one and a half billion dollars. It was based on the oil company Nafta-Moscow, whose shares Kerimov acquired at the end of 1999. It was through her that the father of the hero of our article managed to get a loan from Vnesheconombank, having invested money in Gazprom shares.
This was done against the backdrop of statements by the country's leaders on the liberalization of the share market. As a result, the company's shares doubled during the year, Kerimov repaid the loan ahead of schedule. Kerimov also acquired more than 5.5% of the shares of Sberbank.
In 2008, he completely got rid of his assets in both Sberbank and Gazprom, making a huge profit.
In the 2000s, Kerimov developed the Rublevo-Arkhangelskoye project, which the media called the city for millionaires. Without completing it, he sold everything he managed to do to Shishkhanov.
Having lost part of his assets after the 2008 crisis, Kerimov changed his business strategy. He began to buy large stakes in companies, trying to actively influence their development. So, in 2009, he acquired a 37 percent stake in the largest gold producer, the Polyus company. In 2016, he included his children Gulnara and Said Kerimov on the board of directors.
Scandal with Uralkali
Since 2010, Suleiman has owned more than half of the stake in the potash giant Uralkali. To pay off such a large deal (economists estimated its size at $5.3 billion), he took out a loan from VTB.
For a long time, Uralkali was the world's largest producer of potash fertilizers, which traded on the world market together with Belaruskali. In 2013, Kerimov's company announced that it was withdrawing from an agreement with Belarusian partners, increasing production to the maximum in order to increase market share while reducing prices.
The Belarusian authorities were furious then. Defiantly, they announced the initiation of criminal cases for abuse of official powers and power, sent an application for the detention of Karimov to Interpol. But then they withdrew the request and closed the cases. At the end of 2013, Kerimov profitably sold the shares of Uralkali.
Said's studies at the university
Said Kerimov received his higher education at the Moscow International Relations. He received a graduate degree in business administration and international business. According to rumors, he studied on the same course with the son of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Ilya.
It is known that Said Kerimov, whose photo is in this article, inherited his entrepreneurial talent from his father. He started doing business during his student days. Said initially invested his own funds in relatively small projects. And he made his first major deal in 2014, when he bought one of the country's largest cinema chain Cinema Park from billionaire Vladimir Potanin. According to experts, he paid from 300 to 400 million dollars.
Said Kerimov, whose biography you will find in this article, began to actively develop the business by actively expanding the network throughout the country. He began to open new cinemas in most major Russian cities. Wanting to monopolize the cinema market, in 2015 Kerimov Jr. intended to buy the Formula Kino chain from Alfa Group structures, but the deal fell through. If everything went well, this would allow the young entrepreneur to capture almost 14% of the domestic film distribution market.
Last year, Said sold his stake in Cinema Park to Alexander Mamut.
Assets of Kerimov Jr.
Now Said Kerimov, the son of Suleiman, is the actual owner of the country's largest gold mining company called Polyus. It develops large deposits in the Amur and Magadan regions, as well as in Yakutia. Said became one of the owners of the company in 2015.
Already by 2016, he, along with his sister Gulnara, became a member of the board of directors of Polyus. When Said began to manage the company, almost all of its assets were concentrated in the hands of the Kerimov family. As a result of buying out the shares of the gold miner from minority shareholders through structures controlled by him, Said brought his stake in Polyus to 98%.
Airport "Makhachkala"
Since 2017, the hero of our article has officially been one of the key shareholders of the Makhachkala International Airport in Dagestan.
At the same time, it should be noted that Said is interested in business projects in various industries. For example, he owns an elite cottage settlement called Zarechye Estate, which is located in the Moscow region.
Still Kerimov Jr. is interested in cinema. Today, he has focused his efforts on the development of a promising and modern way of shooting with drones. This is what his company called Air Cinema specializes in.
High tech
In general, Kerimov Jr. is actively interested in high technologies. In particular, if his father is considered a brilliant financial investor, then his son specializes in investments in information and high technology.
For example, it is known that in 2017 he was asking the price of two such assets. One of his companies acquired more than half a percent of the shares of Russian High Technologies, a developer of information security tools, and even managed to formalize and agree on the conclusion of a deal in the antimonopoly service. Only at the last moment Kerimov refused to buy shares, as the market seemed to him not investment attractive enough.
In the same year, the FAS approved a deal for the acquisition by Kerimov's structures of a 51 percent stake in the Eltech SPb company, which is engaged in designing for scientific and industrial purposes. Its regular customers are Roskosmos, Aeroflot, Rosnano. It is believed that Karimov Jr. invested about 80 million rubles in this project.
Personal life
Said is not a public person, he rarely appears at social events. And if they meet him somewhere, they note modesty and good manners. At the same time, he gives the impression of the most closed person. All his social media profiles are protected by privacy settings.
Kerimov Jr. is single. Whether he has a girlfriend is unknown. At the same time, he, of course, is considered one of the most enviable suitors in Russia. But at all public events at which he could be met, Said did not appear in the company of the fair sex. From this we can conclude that if he has someone, then the hero of our article seeks not to advertise these relationships.
Alena Russkikh, Valeria Komarova
Businessman Suleiman Kerimov, who has been a member of the Federation Council since 2008 and is gradually transferring property to his son Said, re-registered his last major asset - Makhachkala International Airport. Previously, he owned it through a charitable foundation.
The main shareholder of the Makhachkala International Airport company was 21-year-old Said Kerimov, son Senator from Dagestan Suleiman Kerimov, follows from the SPARK-Interfax database. On January 11, 2017, 99.5% of the shares of the Grandeko company, which owns the airport, were re-registered to it.
A representative of the Makhachkala airport confirmed that Grandeko is the owner of the airport, refusing to name the owners of the company. Employees of the press services of Grandeco and Suleiman Kerimov's holding company Nafta-Moskva did not comment on information about the owners.
By the age of 21, the MGIMO graduate (according to the information on the institute’s website, Said Kerimov was supposed to receive a diploma in the summer of 2016) already has two large assets, including the largest in Russia gold mining company "Polyus" which he became the owner in April 2015. Previously, it belonged to the Suleyman Kerimov Foundation. In January 2017, Polyus received a license to develop the largest gold deposit in Russia Dry Log.
Said Kerimov also owns the Cinema Park chain of cinemas, which he bought from Vladimir Potanin in 2014. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed, but, according to experts, it could be $300–400 million. In March 2016, it became known that Karimov Jr. decided to expand this business by purchasing the Formula Kino chain, but the negotiations were unsuccessful. In mid-January 2017, as Kommersant wrote, a businessman became interested in the Cinema Park network Alexander Mamut. Mamut's spokesman declined to comment.
Forbes magazine at the end of 2016 appreciated the fortune of Suleiman Kerimov, excluding the airport, is $1.6 billion (the total cost of Polyus and Cinema Park). It was not possible to obtain an estimate of the cost of the airport at the time of publication.
Sky of Dagestan
Joint-Stock Company "International Airport" Makhachkala "became the operator of the airport in 2014, follows from a message on the airport's website. Prior to that, it was owned by the Dagestan Airlines company, which in December 2011 the Federal Air Transport Agency withdrew its license to fly. In 2012, Nafta-Moskva, affiliated with Kerimov, became interested in the airport. And on September 11, 2013, the arbitration court of the republic declared the company "Dagestan Airlines" bankrupt, all its property was put up for auction, follows from the case file. According to the file of arbitration courts of Moscow and Dagestan, in 2012-2013 Dagestan Airlines was the defendant in a bankruptcy case, one of the plaintiffs in which was Arolia Holdings affiliated with Nafta-Moscow.The auction took place in June 2014, two companies participated in them. The first application came from Makhachkala International Airport OJSC, the main owner of which was then Doxa Investments Ltd, registered in the British Virgin Islands, the Caucasian Knot website reported. The second application was submitted by the bank "Northern Sea Route" (JSC "SMP Bank") Arkady and Boris Rotenberg. The auction went in one step, the asset went to the Makhachkala International Airport for 300 million rubles. The representative of the bank did not comment on participation in the auction and interest in the asset.
Formally, at that time there was no connection between Kerimov and Doxa, however, in October 2016, the FAS agreed to transfer shares from offshore to Grandeko, owned by Said and Suleiman Kerimov on a parity basis, Kommersant reported.
Financial indicators for 2016 have not yet been disclosed by Makhachkala International Airport OJSC. However, according to the company's accounting report, in 2015 its revenue amounted to only 632.2 thousand rubles, net profit - 3.27 thousand rubles.
In 2016, 869.2 thousand passengers passed through the airport - 23% more than in 2015, follows from the company's message. In 2016, the airport served 7.7 thousand flights, which is 9% more than in 2015. The capacity on domestic lines is 200 passengers per hour, on international lines - 60 passengers per hour. Every day, eight to ten planes depart from the airport to Moscow, flights to St. Petersburg are made four times a week, and from here you can also get to Surgut, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, Kazakhstan and Turkey.
A representative of Sheremetyevo told RBC that he was not considering the acquisition of the Makhachkala International Airport, so far it has not been possible to receive comments from representatives of the Novaport and Airports of Regions holdings.
Sea of Dagestan
Since the mid-2000s, Suleiman Kerimov has been trying to take control Makhachkala Commercial Sea Port. The main opponent of Kerimov in the struggle for the port of the media was the co-owner of the Summa group, Ziyavudin Magomedov. A representative of the Summa group stated that the company does not consider it expedient to purchase the port and has never been interested in the Makhachkala airport. A representative of Nafta-Moskva declined to comment.Arolia Holdings, affiliated with Nafta-Moscow, which was among the plaintiffs in the bankruptcy case of Dagestan Airlines, was also a plaintiff in the case of the debt of the Makhachkala port for 678.18 million rubles, part of the company's claims for 155, 9 million rubles the court granted.
“The port of Makhachkala itself, as an asset that is now in decline, is not as interesting to the structures of Magomedov and Kerimov as the struggle for influence over the republic,” Beslan Uspanov, editor-in-chief of the Caucasian Politics website, commented on the confrontation between businessmen earlier. In his opinion, the fight is interesting because the winner, most likely, will indicate his superiority in Dagestan.
What did Kerimov Sr. sell?
In 2009, Kerimov bought from the AST group Telmana Ismailova building "Voentorg" on Vozdvizhenka. Then the deal was estimated at $300 million. In 2010, Kerimov transferred the asset to Rybolovlev's structures against the shares of Uralkali bought from him.
In 2013, Kerimov sold a 36% stake in the PIK group to businessmen. Sergei Gordeev and Alexander Mamut. Then the transaction amount was estimated at about $ 500-600 million.
Also in 2013, Kerimov sold a 21.75% stake in Uralkali to the owner of ONEXIM Mikhail Prokhorov. The cost of the package was estimated at 115 billion rubles.
In 2014, structures controlled by Kerimov sold VTB shares, which the billionaire bought for $1 billion in 2012-2013. The amount of the transaction from the sale of the package was not disclosed at that time.
In October 2015, Kerimov sold hotel "Moscow", which was estimated at more than 10 billion rubles, to the owners of Gorbushkin Dvor Yuri and Alexey Khotin. Later, in August 2015, Kerimov sold the Fashion Season gallery located in the hotel to the Khotins.
In July 2016, Kerimov was interested in buying a 17% stake in UC Rusal from ONEXIM, but after some time he fell out of the race, giving way to Sual Partners Viktor Vekselberg and Leonid Blavatnik.
In December 2016, Kerimov Sr. said goodbye to football club "Anji", which he has owned since 2011, transferring it to the president of the Makhachkala Dynamo Osman Kadiev with all the debts. From 2010 to 2013, the football club was a loss-making asset, but at the end of 2014 it turned out to be the most successful sports business in Russia: profit for this period amounted to 4.2 billion rubles.
