Billionaire Dmitry Bosov committed suicide

Billionaire Dmitry Bosov (Alltek group - Sibanthracite and Vostokugol), who had just entered the Russian Forbes, committed suicide, RBC reported. “It’s true, Bosov is not alive,” one of his acquaintances told the publication.

RBC's source in law enforcement agencies said that at night the police responded to a suicide call in the village of Usovo near Moscow, where the businessman lived.

Information about the suicide of The Bell was confirmed by one of Bosov's acquaintances. According to Kommersant , no suicide note was found next to the body, but a Glock award pistol from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Abkhazia was found.

Upd. Bosov's death was confirmed by Alltek. "Today, the founder of the Sibanthracite group, Dmitry Bosov, tragically died in Moscow. Dmitry was an outstanding businessman, a courageous and determined innovator, a reliable partner, a sensitive and devoted friend. His passing away is a huge loss for everyone who knew him," - says in the message.

With a fortune of $ 1.1 billion, Bosov was ranked 86th in the Russian rating of the magazine.

What you need to know about Dmitry Bosov

Dmitry Bosov was born in 1968 in Barnaul, in 1991 he graduated from the Moscow State Technical University. Bauman. After the institute, he went into trade, but by the mid-1990s he became a shareholder of the Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Plant with Boris (Bidzina) Ivanishvili. From 1997 to 2000 he was a member of the board of directors of the plant, in 2000 he founded the Alltek group.

In April, Bosov's companies announced the dismissal of Alexander Isaev, a longtime partner of the businessman, the chairman of the Vostokugol Management Company and a member of the board of directors of Sibanthracite Management Company, for abuse and theft. Isaev soon headed the Elginsky coal project, bought from Mechel and Gazprombank by the A-Property company of Yota co-founders Albert Avdolyan and Sergey Adoniev.

After that, it became known about the shutdown due to the coronavirus of the project that Bosov personally promoted - the construction of the Severomuysky Tunnel-2, which was supposed to increase the capacity of the BAM, primarily for coal. It was a rare private infrastructure initiative in Russia: the companies wanted to invest 60 billion rubles in the project in exchange for priority access to coal exports via the Baikal-Amur Mainline.

In February, Vostokugol began to get rid of the Vostokugol-Dikson coal project in Taimyr. The company, to which Rosprirodnadzor had claims because of coal mining in the Arctic Peninsula, hoped for state-owned companies represented by Rostec, Rosatom and even Rosneft. The project with a capacity of 30 million tons per year was supposed to provide a third of the loading of the Northern Sea Route, it included two deep-water ports, and the boundaries of the Great Arctic Reserve were changed for it. However, the company realized that it had overestimated its strength, Kommersant wrote.

At the end of last year, companies began to experience problems with payments to creditors. Lawsuits against Sibanthracite were filed by Novotrans, Russian Railways, the Federal Freight Company and the Federal Passenger Company.

In early May, it became known that a lawsuit was personally filed against Bosov by the former general director of the American legal marijuana project. Bosov invested about $160 million in this market, according to the lawsuit.

Sibanthracite is the general sponsor of the Night Hockey League, created on the initiative of Vladimir Putin for amateur hockey players, writes Forbes. Bosov's Alltek Group owns the Artplay Moscow Center for Architecture and Design.