Full name:
Fridman Mikhail
Fridman Mikhail Date of Birth
21 April 1964
Fridman Mikhail Citizenship
Russia/Israel
Fridman Mikhail Professional field/official position
Businessman, Co-owner of Alfa Group and CEO of LetterOne Holdings
Fridman Mikhail biography
FRIDMAN Mikhail Maratovich (b.1964) is a Russian-Israeli tycoon, founder of Alfa Group Consortium, owner of LetterOne Holdings, a member of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, co-founder of the Russian Jewish Congress. Born in Lviv in Western Ukraine, in 1986, he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys.
Fridman Mikhail crimes
Corruption and cronyism.
The media has repeatedly reported that Alfa Group has close ties with the Kremlin. So, Vladislav Surkov, who he worked for Friedman and Alfa Group
- in 1996–1997 — First Deputy Chairman of Alfa Bank
- in 1998–1999 — First Deputy General Director, Director of Public Relations of Public Russian television has been holding the post of Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation and other senior governmental positions since 1999.
Alexander Abramov who headed the Alfa Bank GR department and was Deputy Chairman of the Board since 1999, served as deputy head of the Presidential Administration. Later, he was Secretary of the State Council of the Russian Federation and Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation.
In October 2019, the Spanish Prosecution Service accused Fridman of an “economic siege” and attempted “raider seizure” of mobile operator Zed WorldWide (ZWW) in 2016. Anti-corruption investigator Jose Grinda Gonzalez described Mr. Fridman’s attempt to seize ZWW as a “raid”. Friedman himself denied the allegations.
