What yachts!

What Roman Abramovich owns

Before the elections, we drew up a draft declaration of income for the most modest candidate for deputies of the Chukotka Duma In Chukotka, on March 13, elections are held. The most famous of the Russian speakers of regional parliaments, Roman Abramovich, is running again...

Before the elections, we drafted a declaration of income for the most modest candidate for deputies of the Chukotka Duma

In Chukotka, March 13th is an election. The most famous of the Russian speakers of regional parliaments, Roman Abramovich, is again running for deputies, and therefore, by law, he is obliged to provide voters with information about his property and income - his and his family members. What can be included in the declaration of a well-known connoisseur of yachts, villas and aircraft?

Novaya Gazeta helps Roman Arkadievich not to miss anything. According to Finance magazine, Roman Abramovich is no longer among the top three richest Russians. He dropped to fifth position, ahead of Metalloinvest owner Alisher Usmanov and Oleg Deripaska (Basic Element ) . website of the Chukotka electoral committee

The former governor of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, and now the speaker of the local parliament, Roman Abramovich, is running for self-nomination - that is, he does not represent any party. We will not call him a businessman, an oligarch or simply an entrepreneur, since the official information about the candidate published on the website of the local election commission indicates that Roman Arkadyevich's main place of work is the position of chairman of the Duma of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

The media portrait of candidate Roman Abramovich consists of several hypostases. European and American journalists constantly publish reports about his new fashionable purchases, creating the image of a billionaire who can almost without hesitation spend amounts of the order that is available to a very narrow circle of people living on this planet. Chukotka journalists paint the image of a caring benefactor - an exemplary civil servant, ex-governor, speaker of the regional parliament, philanthropist. Russian federal media periodically lean to one or the other pole, trying to deduce something arithmetic mean.

In addition to media portraits, there is Roman Arkadyevich himself, who, apparently, is constantly forced to maneuver between his reincarnations: trying to keep in his hands the property business attributed to him by journalists, keeping secret all the main ownership schemes recorded on several Cypriot trusts, the ultimate beneficiary of which is in a number of cases, according to the authors of the book "The Abramovich Principle", are his children. And all this in a constantly changing legal reality that requires more and more transparency. Today, this reality is such that civil servants (whose status includes deputies), and even more so from candidates for deputies, according to federal and local laws, presidential decrees and resolutions of the election commission, are required to publish information about their and family income and property - on website of the relevant department or body, as well as in the media.

In 2009, after the announcement of the president's initiative to declare incomes by officials, VTsIOM conducted a survey, according to the results of which 5% are interested in the declarations of all officials, 3% are interested in the declarations of representatives of local authorities, 1% would like to get information about the income of Roman Abramovich (that is, legally justified interest in the disclosure of information about his income is shown by at least 9 percent of Russian citizens).

According to the decision of the electoral committee of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug No. 82/350 dated October 26, 2010, information about candidates, as well as their personal and family income and property, must be transferred to the Krayniy Sever newspaper within 48 hours after registration is completed. The end of registration of all candidates for the Duma of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug was officially announced on February 2. Since we have not yet been able to find this information on the website of the Krayniy Sever newspaper or on the website of the election committee of Chukotka, Novaya decided to fill this gap by using available information from open sources*. And although representatives of Roman Abramovich traditionally do not comment on everything related to his personal expenses, considering this non-public information, we still hope that comments will follow in this case. And we expect that his current income will turn out to be more than 12 million 390 thousand 950 rubles declared in the late 90s, and his property will not be limited to the only car VAZ-2106 (R. Abramovich ran for the State Duma in 1999, and then in the media for the first and the last time there was official information about his income and property. — D.P., D.Sh. ).

In fact, Roman Abramovich has three options:

1. Issue a declaration similar to the one that was in the late 90s, that is, pretend to be "poor." The downside of this choice is obvious: not comme il faut. Since most of what he owns has long been an open secret.

2. Do not declare anything publicly, like all the last decade. The disadvantage of such a choice is that today it is a clear violation of the law and the presidential decree, and in the public sphere in a frank manner, as a rule, they try not to allow even the completely self-confident powers that be.

3. Declare everything as it is. The advantage of this choice is that the positions in terms of transparency are significantly strengthened, the image of the creator of a positive trend and the very first civil servant in Russia with immunity from corruption is being formed. The downside is that this threatens with another “smearing” in the tabloids and criticism from “colleagues in the shop”, which this will also inevitably force them to move towards transparency. Then it may take a supply of quality arguments, a good PR team, and some serious personal courage to turn the negatives into positives.

So, what would the published information about Roman Abramovich's income look like if he agreed to the third option - "to declare everything as it is."

Total income

The state is from 328 billion 720 million to 348 billion 762 million rubles (according to Forbes and The Times for the last year, hereinafter all amounts are given in rubles, taking into account the current exchange rate of the dollar, pound sterling and other currencies). According to the latest rating-2011 of the magazine "Finance" - 521.2 billion rubles.

The average annual increase is 15 billion 161 million 721 thousand rubles (according to The Times).

Real estate:

Note. After the divorce of Roman Abramovich and Irina Malandina, a number of media reported that she had received a villa in West Sussex in the UK, two apartments in London and a castle in France. At the same time, there are still those who claim that in a situation where real estate objects could be registered in the name of children, such a status quo could be preserved even after a divorce. Therefore, they are left on this list.

Chateau de la Croe , Cape d'Antibes, Cote d'Azur, France - 880 million rubles (plus a comparable amount for the restoration of the building and redesign).

Villa Fyning Hill in West Sussex , UK, a plot of land of 420 acres (about 17 thousand acres) - 998 million rubles.

Two apartments in Lowndes Square , Knightsbridge area, London - 56 million 556 thousand and 235 million 650 thousand rubles, respectively.

8-level 9-apartment building on Lowndes Square , Knightsbridge area, London - estimated cost of 5 billion 655 million 600 thousand rubles.

Penthouse in Kensington , London - 1 billion 584 million 900 thousand rubles.

Multi-storey mansion at the corner of Eaton Square and Lower Belgrave Street, London - 1 billion 319 million 640 thousand rubles.

Note. In the book of British journalists "Abramovich: a billionaire from nowhere" there is a mention that the deal to acquire this property was not completed, however, in later reports from the London media, it is still indicated as the property of Roman Abramovich.

Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc , Cannes, France - 29 billion 350 million rubles.

Villa in St. Tropez , not far from the Byblos hotel, France - 1 billion 605 million 200 thousand rubles.

An apartment in the Soho area , London - 118 million 250 thousand rubles.

Villa in Punta Volpe , Emerald Coast, Sardinia, Italy.

Villa on the island of St. Barthelemy , Caribbean coast, overseas community of France, land plot of 70 acres (2833 acres) - 2 billion 641 million 500 thousand rubles.

Ski house and ranch Wildcat Ridge in a mountain resort in Aspen, Colorado, USA, land plots of 1.7 and 200 acres, respectively (69 and 8094 acres) - 346 million 330 thousand rubles and 1 billion 68 million 340 thousand rubles.

Dacha in the elite village of Sareevo on the Rublevo-Uspenskoye highway - 300-400 million rubles.

Apartment on Otke street, Anadyr, Chukotka.

Land plots on the coasts of Sochi, Corfu island in Greece, Montenegro.

Land plot in a prestigious district of the Moscow Region, not far from the Skolkovo innovation city, 397 hectares (39,700 acres) in the Bakovsky forestry - 24 million 385 thousand 725 rubles (in 2008, the auction for a long-term lease was won by the Eco West company, registered under the same address as Millhouse, which manages Abramovich's assets).

Vehicles:

Note. After the divorce of Roman Abramovich and Irina Malandina, a number of media reported that she retained the right to use the Pelorus yacht and the Boeing 737 aircraft. At the same time, reliable information about the change in ultimate owners was not reported. Therefore, they are left on this list.

Boeing 767 aircraft , registered in Aruba (an island in the Caribbean, an overseas territory of the Netherlands) - 3 billion 52 million 400 thousand rubles.

Boeing 737 Business Jet , also registered in Aruba - 1 billion 885 million 200 thousand rubles.

DC-10 aircraft , with a capacity of 220 passengers in normal use.

Helicopters of various brands and configurations with a total cost of up to 1.5 billion rubles.

Yacht Sussurro , 50 meters, the flag of the Cayman Islands - 1 billion 438 million 150 thousand rubles.

Megayacht Ecstasea , 86 meters, port of registry - Hamilton, Bermuda - 3 billion 610 million 50 thousand rubles.

Megayacht Pelorus , 115 meters, port of registry - Hamilton, Bermuda - 4 billion 109 million rubles.

Megayacht Luna , 115 meters, new acquisition in 2010, port of registry - Hamilton, Bermuda - 5 billion 419 million 950 thousand rubles (launched and transferred to the owner shortly before taking possession of the Eclipse yacht).

Megayacht Eclipse , 170 meters, took over in December 2010 - 17 billion 610 million rubles.

American-made submarines with a length of 36 and 20 meters, with a total cost of 754 million 80 thousand rubles.

A collection of luxury cars (Bentley, Jaguar, custom-made Rolls-Royce, racing Ferrari FXX and others) worth over 2 billion rubles.

Shares and other participation in commercial organizations:

The Chelsea Football Club , London, Great Britain, was acquired for 6 billion 598 million 200 thousand rubles, the amount of investments over the past few years (including the last purchase of the forward of the Spanish national team Fernando Torres) is 35 billion 818 million 800 thousand rubles.

A group of companies managing the assets of Roman Abramovich and united by a common history and the name "Millhouse":
MHS Services Ltd. (until August 2008 - Millhouse Capital UK Ltd.), office - in London, on the fifth floor of the Chelsea football club. The parent company is Electus Investments Ltd. (Cyprus).

LLC Millhouse (spun off into a separate company in April 2006, before that - the Russian representative office of Millhouse Capital UK Ltd.), office - in Moscow, in the building where the head office of Sibneft was located before its sale to Gazprom. The parent company is Tristan Holdings Ltd. (Cyprus).

The Millhouse Group manages or owns the following assets, shares, securities:

- Evraz Group SA, 36 percent (steel, mining, coal and vanadium business in Russia, USA, Canada, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Italy, South Africa. In 2009, it produced 15.3 million tons of steel and ranks 15th th place in the world, owns one of the largest distribution networks in Russia for the sale of Carbofer steel);
— bonds (subordinated bonds) of the Irish Nationwide Building Society (INBS), the total amount was not disclosed;
— OJSC Channel One, 24 percent;
- Publishing house "Courier" (magazines about alcohol), 60 percent;
- meat assets of the Prodo group of companies, the share is not clear;
— gold mining company Highland Gold Mining (HGM), 31 percent;
— drug manufacturer Pharmstandard, about 30 percent;
— the Baltschug Plaza office complex, the Krylatskiye Holmy business park, land plots and other real estate in Moscow and the Moscow Region with a total value of about 30 billion rubles;
— Snegiri development company, 16 percent;
- Canadian Kinross Gold, 1.5 percent (received in exchange for the sale of gold deposits in Chukotka);
— OOO Mangazey, OOO Severo-Vostochnaya GGK, OOO Klen and OOO Nedra Severa, which won an auction in November 2010 for the right to develop four deposits in Chukotka with a total resource of 185 tons of gold and about 2,000 tons of silver .

So, today, according to experts and the media, Roman Abramovich's fortune is more than 500 billion rubles. The well-known Chukchi parliamentarian and global entrepreneur made it in different conditions than modern billionaire inventors, such as Microsoft founder Bill Gates or Google founder Sergey Brin. The phenomenon of Roman Abramovich has finally taken shape in the system of coordinates of the Russian political and economic reality of the last 12 years, one of the architects of which was Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his close circle of colleagues.

One of the main conditions for survival in the matrix of this model was the game according to concepts - the rules established by a narrow circle of its players. Roman Abramovich seems to have always accurately caught these signs. This is noticeable in his role in transactions with the two-time sale of Sibneft. In 2003, for $ 3 billion to Yukos (the deal fell through on the initiative of Abramovich after the start of the Khodorkovsky trial). As a result of the sale to Gazprom for $13 billion, the new status quo allowed the gas monopoly to strengthen its position, and Roman Abramovich to become a multibillionaire with free funds to buy new assets, that is, to go into a freer world navigation. And recently another remarkable story happened - with the sale of shares of Channel One. Abramovich's blocking stake was transferred to a media group affiliated with Premier League businessman Yuri Kovalchuk.

*SOURCES OF INFORMATION: Registers of legal entities of Great Britain and Russia, official reports of companies, as well as books by D. Midgley & C. Hutchins 'Abramovich: The Billionaire from Nowhere', V. Dorofeev and T. Kostylev "The Abramovich Principle", publications WSJ, Daily Mail, Times, Daily Telegraph, Boote Exclusiv, Independent, Guardian, La Nuova Sardegna, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Forbes, Prime-Tass, Kommersant.