Billionaire and the richest senator Suleiman Kerimov gets rid of silver and gold

The world's largest silver producer Polymetal confirmed the information about the negotiations, which are conducted between the controlling shareholder of the company Suleiman Kerimov and a number of possible counterparties regarding the possibility of the possibility of acquiring each of these counterparties of the share of the controlling shareholder in Polymetal.

One of the participants in these preliminary discussions is the brother of the current general director of the company Vitaly Nesis (the founder of the IST group Alexander Nesis - "Polit.ru"), the company said.

On Friday, the Vedomosti newspaper, citing several entrepreneurs familiar with Kerimov, said that the latter wants to sell the company. Among the possible buyers, in particular, the founder of the East group Alexander Nasis is called.

Analysts believed that the acquisition of Polymetall may be interested in billionaire Roman Abramovich, who owns a package of shares of gold mining Highland Gold Mining, and the Gold Pole, the largest producer of this precious metalla in the Russian Federation.

The Polymetal group includes the management company Polymetal Criminal Code, the engineering company Polymetal Engineering, four mining and four exploration companies in Buryatia, the Khabarovsk Territory, the Sakhalin, Irkutsk, Chita and Magadan regions. The company is the world's largest primary silver manufacturer and one of the largest gold manufacturer in Russia.

According to the rating of the richest businessmen, Kerimov is 8th in terms of state, his assets are estimated at $ 18 billion. Kerimov was a deputy of the State Duma of the past convocation - the LDPR faction. However, last year, Kerimov wrote a short application for the exit from the faction and did not indicate the reasons for leaving. Later, Kerimov was accepted into United Russia, but they did not call the State Duma (it is believed that because of Vladimir Putin’s statement about the inadmissibility of the presence of businessmen from the first hundred Forbes on the lists of EP).

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The rising gold prices on the exchange drew the attention of Russian businessmen to this segment of metallurgy. The ALROSA state-owned company, which specializes in the extraction of diamonds, has long been negotiating about the purchase of Polus-gold (the company was allocated from Norilsk Nickel, she got the "golden" assets of the joint business of Mikhail Prokhorov and Vladimir Potanin so far). Alrosa, however, refuted rumors, and the head of the Ministry of Finance Kudrin during a visit to South Africa stated that negotiations were suspended.

Recently, the steel magnate Alexei Mordashov also stated about the desire to develop gold mining. His "Severstal" plans to become one of the leaders in gold in Russia after 4-5 years.

The largest gold miner of the Russian Federation is Polyus-Zoloto. Last year, the pole increased the production of gold by 17 percent to 37.8 tons. Behind it is Peter Hambro Mining, the third manufacturer of gold is Polymetal (included in the business imperial of Suleiman Kerimov), and the fourth - Highland Gold Mining Ltd, owning the Mayskoye field.

A 40-year-old politician and businessman Suleiman Kerimov is a very versatile person. He is the owner of the Naft-Moscow oil concern. The main asset of this company is more than 6% of Sberbank shares and 4.5% of Gazprom shares. In addition, among the company's assets, the project of elite housing “Rublevo-Arkhangelskoye” (430 hectares on the Novorizhskoye Shosse, the planned cost is $ 3 billion), the Polymetal gold mining company, Binbank (19.9%), MGTS (2%), and Krasnopresnensky sugar-rarity plant (91%).