Elena Alexandrovna Likhach is a socialite and the spouse of the influential person from Solntsevo back in the 1990s, who is now a well-known politician and successful businessman Andrei Skoch. What is known about the spouse of one of the wealthiest individuals in Russia according to the magazine “Forbes, who is estimated to be worth $6.3 billion?
Attractive, cheerful and smiling. Elena Likhach, who is 49 years old (or 47 years old according to some sources), is from the Brest region. There is very little information about her life, as she is like a private person behind her husband. Her husband Andrei Skoch is not an ordinary person, but more on that later. It is known that Likhach was previously married and has one daughter from her first marriage. Now she is a mother of several children.
Elena Alexandrovna enjoys attending social gatherings not only in Russia but also abroad. For example, the regular parties she hosts at a luxurious country estate in Sardinia are particularly popular in the media.
She enjoys walking in expensive stylish dresses along the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival, where she always arrives on her own luxury yacht. By the way, she docks her ship near the fashionable Eden-Roc Hotel, where Hollywood stars like to stay.
Elena befriends well-known women. For instance, a socialite is often seen with the wife of Flavio Briatore, the renowned film actress Nicole Kidman, and others.
For her frequent trips around the world, an elegant woman uses a personal A-320 aircraft. This is an exclusive plane, as the cabin is adorned with precious stones. This is a gift from her husband for the birth of their children. This is not the only extravagant gift. There were also diamond tiaras and other luxurious presents. This is not the typical bouquet of roses with balloons at the maternity hospital. Ordinary people could only dream of such things.
What is known about the husband of Elena Likhach
Andrey Skoch, 56, is from a village in the Moscow region. He is a seasoned politician, a State Duma deputy from United Russia. Besides his political career, Andrey Vladimirovich is a successful entrepreneur. A.V.Skoch is a co-owner of Gazmetall and Metallinvest. Additionally, the entrepreneur leads the expert council in the field of metallurgy and mining.
According to the information source “Declarator”, Andrei Vladimirovich's declared income over the past year was over 608 million rubles. He also owns real estate spanning almost 2.5 thousand square meters and one car.
However, all the business and other assets are under the name of his father Vladimir Skoch and daughter Varvara.
According to the renowned Forbes publication, Andrey Skoch is a billionaire in terms of dollars. Journalists estimated his fortune this year at 6.3 billion dollars.
Regarding sanctions and business
Andrey Skoch located is under sanctions from various countries: EU, United States of America, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Ukraine, Japan.
But Elena Alexandrovna herself has so far managed to avoid getting into these sanctions lists.
It is worth noting that some sites indicate that this couple is divorced, but…
Also analysts notethat Elena Likhach owns assets that may come from an illegal source of income.
She is the ex-co-owner of AV Holding LLC. Her belonged 75% of the company.
Now these 75% belong husband’s father – pensioner Vladimir Nikitovich Skoch.
The status capital of this limited liability company is 984 million rubles. Over the past year, the organization received revenue in the amount of 2.5 billion rubles. It has more than tripled in a year. The profit amounted to 1.8 billion, and the value of the total assets of AV Holding LLC is 8.4 billion rubles.
The couple have a luxurious family 99-meter yacht “Madame Gu”. There is even an enclosed helicopter hangar. How do you like this vehicle? Forbes magazine estimated its cost at 135 lam bucks.
This is not all the property and business of this couple …
What is known about the past of Andrei Skoch: is Elena Likhach’s husband a crime boss?
It turns out that Andrei Skoch has something to hide. He is the former leader of the Solntsevo OPG. He even had his own nickname “Scotch”.
Although in the media he categorically denies his connection with the criminal world and is trying in every possible way to clean up the Internet from any mention of his scandalous past from the dashing nineties. He is also referred to as Usmanov’s “purse man”.
Here is one of the rare photographs proving the involvement of A.V. Skoch in the Solntsevo United Criminal Group.
By information publications “Wikikompromat”, Andrey Skoch has been working a lot over the past years to clean up the negative in the information space that connects him with the Solntsevo organized criminal group. The FSB called Scotch one of the leaders of this group. And the counterintelligence officers claimed that, together with the brothers Kvetny and Baranovsky, he headed the organized criminal group, which was engaged in the criminal arms smuggling business in the 90s.
You can talk about the inglorious criminal past of Elena Likhach’s husband for a very long time, but this is not about today.
As you can see, in such a difficult time for the country, the wife of crime boss Elena Likhach lives very, very comfortably.
To be continued.
