STORY – The founder of the country’s first online bank says he was forced to sell it after his positions.
Correspondent in Moscow
Founder of Tinkoff Bank – the twelfth largest Russian bank in terms of capital -, the country’s thirty-second fortune last year, according to Forbes, Oleg Tinkov, 55, was one of the stars of the economic scene in Russia. Which has seriously paled, in the light of the authorities, since the “special military operation” in Ukraine against which Tinkov was one of the few, among the big Russian bosses, to take sides. “I don’t believe in the future of Russia”confided a few days ago to the New York Times, without revealing where he was in Europe because he says he is threatened.
Not “oligarch” in the strict sense of the term, since having not built his fortune on the privatizations of the Yeltsin era, the ex-student of the Leningrad Mining Institute prospered by developing various companies, including a chain an appliance store (Tekhnoshok), a manufacturer of frozen ready meals (Daria, the name of his daughter), a chain of restaurants (Tinkoff Brewery Company) and…
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