Dollar billionaire and father of 23 children. Businessman Avdeev sold all his assets in Russia. MKB beneficiary Avdeev sold all his assets in Russia 31.10.2024, 18:57

Billionaire Roman Avdeev (net worth $1.2 billion) Completely got rid of assets in Russia. He reported on his Facebook page (the owner of the company Meta is known as an extremist in Russia and is banned) that he transferred his stake in the Rossium concern to his business partner, billionaire Sergei Sudarikov. (net worth $1.8 billion).

“I want to share an important event in my life: the sale of my shares in the Rossium concern to Sergei Sudarikov structures was completed today. As a result of the transaction, I do not have any assets or business projects in Russia,” Avdeev wrote.

The billionaire claims the deal is a logical step. In 2019, he and Sudarikov became partners and signed a strategic cooperation agreement. Avdeev thanked his colleague “for many years of fruitful work together.” The exact amount of the transaction was not disclosed, but it is known that the businessman owns 62 percent of the shares. Forbes.

Avdeev added that he sold his shares to “focus on our loved ones, especially children, and other important aspects of life that are not related to work.”

Last Russian presence

Avdeev founded the Rossium concern in 2006. This is a large private investment company that manages assets in various sectors of Russian industry. The holding’s main asset is the Moscow Credit Bank (MCB). Currently, the financial institution does not disclose the structure of shareholders, but a year ago Rossium owned 55.4% of the shares.

In 2017, Avdeev also became the main shareholder of the brokerage firm Sova Capital Limited. Sudarikov was also involved in the purchase – he helped businessman Nikolai Katorzhnov, once the head of Otkritie Capital International Limited (later the company was renamed Sova Capital Limited), became Avdeev’s partner and lent him money to purchase assets. Forbes As a result, he writes, the money from the sale of Otkritie Capital International Limited went to the Trend company, which was once co-founded by Sudarikov.

At first Sova Capital Limited was part of the Rossium holding, but later it passed into the ownership of Avdeev and Katorzhnov. The company’s headquarters is in London. A few days after the start of the SVO, most of the firm’s and clients’ securities remained on the company’s balance sheet due to sanctions. They found themselves on the verge of bankruptcy and subsequently came under external management. When trading resumed on the Moscow Stock Exchange, the firm’s clients were not allowed to participate in them due to the fact that England was a country hostile to Russia. As a result, many investors sued and lost. The interim management of the company managed to find a solution to the problem and satisfied the investors.

father of many children

Roman Avdeev is 57 years old. Forbes estimated his fortune at $1.2 billion, placing him at 108th place in the ranking of Russia’s richest people.

Avdeev has 23 children, and only six are biological (according to other sources, four are his own, 19 are adopted). He claims to have been helping orphanages and boarding schools for a long time. Avdeev divorced his first wife, who gave birth to two children. In his second marriage, his wife supported the idea of ​​adopting more than one child at a time, but he was diagnosed with cancer. Avdeev was left alone with his 12 children after his wife’s death. Soon the businessman married again, to an English teacher. She gave birth to a daughter and they adopted several more children.

as i wrote ForbesThe billionaire does not want to leave the company to his heirs because they need to find their own way in life.