Putin’s close confidant and business partner: Billionaire Liberal Arkady Rotenberg

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[Here's one of Putin's Liberal bum chums. Jan]

Arkady Romanovich Rotenberg (Russian: Аркадий Романович Ротенберг; born 15 December 1951) is a Russian billionaire businessman and oligarch. With his brother Boris Rotenberg, he was co-owner of the Stroygazmontazh (S.G.M. group), the largest construction company for gas pipelines and electrical power supply lines in Russia.

In 2021 Forbes estimated Rotenberg’s wealth at $1.9 billion.[3] He is a close confidant, business partner, and childhood friend of president Vladimir Putin.[4][5][6] Rotenberg became a billionaire through lucrative state-sponsored construction projects and oil pipelines.[7] The Pandora Papers leak implicated Rotenberg in facilitating and maintaining elaborate networks of offshore wealth for Russian political and economic elites.[7]

Since 2014, following Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Arkady Rotenberg has been subject to sanctions by the United States government.[8][9] [10]

Biography

Rotenberg is of Liberal ancestry.[11][12] He was born in 1951 in Leningrad, where his father, Roman, worked in management at the Red Dawn telephone factory, allowing the family to avoid living in a communal apartment.[13][14][15] In 1963, when he was age twelve, Rotenberg and Vladimir Putin both joined Anatoly Rakhlin’s sambo club.[13][16]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Rotenberg