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• An early Facebook investor and metals magnate, Alisher Usmanov was hit with U.S., U.K. and EU sanctions in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
• Uzbekistan-born Usmanov, who has family ties with President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, moved to Tashkent in 2022.
• His largest holding is his stake in iron ore and steel giant Metalloinvest. He also owns stakes in Xiaomi and other telecom, mining and media companies.
• He made his first fortune producing plastic bags, a commodity so scarce in the former Soviet Union that people washed and reused them.
• Usmanov headed Gazprom Investholding, a subsidiary of state-run conglomerate Gazprom, from 2000 to 2014.
• An ex-fencer, Usmanov was the president of the International Fencing Federation until 2022.

Wealth History

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Personal Stats

Age

71

Source of Wealth

Steel, telecom, investments, Self Made

Residence

Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Citizenship

Russia

Marital Status

Divorced

Education

Master, Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation; Master of Laws, Moscow Institute of International Relations

Did you know

In 1980, he was convicted of fraud and embezzlement; he served six years. Years later, the Uzbek supreme court ruled that the case against him had been trumped up.

German authorities blocked his 512-foot superyacht Dilbar from leaving after sanctions hit, while Italian authorities froze his villa in Sardinia.

In Their Own Words

I am proud that I know Putin, and the fact that everybody does not like him is not Putin's problem. I don't think the world loved Truman after Nagasaki.

Alisher Usmanov

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