(1966-03-12) 12 March 1966 (age 58) Derbent, Dagestan, USSR
Nationality
Russian
Children
3, including Said Kerimov
Education
Dagestan State University
Website
Suleyman Kerimov Foundation
Suleyman Abusaidovich Kerimov (Russian: Сулейма́н Абусаи́дович Кери́мов; Lezgian: Керимрин Абусаидан хва Сулейман; born 12 March 1966) is a Russia-based billionaire, oligarch,[1][2][3][4][5] and politician of Lezgian origin.[6][7][8] Kerimov has close ties to Vladimir Putin's government in Russia,[9] as well as Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen leader.[10]
He entered politics in the 1990s. By 1999, he won control of Nafta Moskva, a former state-oil trader. In the 2000s, Kerimov obtained billions of dollars in loans from big Russian state-owned banks, such as Sberbank and VTB.[9] Through these loans, he became a major stakeholder in Gazprom and Uralkali, as well as Sberbank.[9] By 2008, his fortune had risen to $21 billion,[9] and by 2022, it had decreased to $11 billion.[11][12]
Since 2008, Kerimov has represented the Republic of Dagestan in the Federation Council of Russia.[13]
He bought the football club FC Anzhi Makhachkala in 2011, which subsequently made numerous high-profile signings. The club bought Samuel Eto'o, making him the highest-paid player in the world.[9] In 2013, Kerimov drastically and abruptly cut the team's funding, prompting a firesale of players.[14][15]
In April 2018, he was placed under sanctions by the United States Department of Treasury.[16] In the wake of 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Kerimov was sanctioned as a Russian oligarch close to President Putin, by the US, UK and EU on 15 March 2022.[17][18]
Kerimov's son Said Kerimov resigned from the board of Polyus Gold in April 2022 and the family sold its stake in the company worth $6.3 billion relinquishing the majority shareholder position of Polyus Gold.[19]
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^"Kerimov Foundation: Welcome". kerimovfoundation.org. Archived from the original on 27 November 2018. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
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^Fuller, Liz (13 August 2016). "Struggle Under Way For Control Of Strategic Russian Port". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
^"Suleiman Kerimov & family". Forbes. 9 December 2021. Archived from the original on 9 December 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
^"Bloomberg Billionaires Index". Bloomberg.com.
^"Suleyman Kerimov". Suleyman Kerimov Foundation. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
^Appell, James (7 August 2013). "Anzhi Makhachkala: Why are big-spending Russians cutting back?". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
^Waele, Jean-Michel De; Gibril, Suzan; Gloriozova, Ekaterina; Spaaij, Ramón (2018). The Palgrave International Handbook of Football and Politics. Springer. pp. 273–274. ISBN 978-3-319-78777-0.
^Cite error: The named reference :2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Dean, Grace. "Fiji issued a restraining order that stops a sanctioned Russian oligarch's $325 million superyacht from leaving the country". Business Insider. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
^"CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK" (PDF). Retrieved 16 April 2023.
^"Sanctioned Russian's Family Sells $6 Billion Stake in Gold Miner". Bloomberg.com. 6 April 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
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