Viktor Filippovich RASHNIKOV

Owner, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Committee for Strategic Planning of the Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works

Function: Leading businessperson. Owner, chairman of the Board of Directors and chairman of the Committee for Strategic Planning of the Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK).

Viktor Rashnikov is a leading Russian businessperson who is owner and chairman of the Board of Directors of the Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) company. MMK is one of Russia’s largest taxpayers. The tax burden on the company increased lately, resulting in considerably higher proceeds to the Russian state budget. Viktor Rashnikov also receives support from the Russian Government and decision-makers. Moreover, he was among the leading Russian businesspersons who participated in the congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in Mar 2023, where the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin gave a speech and urged billionaires to put “patriotism before profit”.

He is therefore a leading businessperson operating in Russia and a businessperson involved in economic sectors providing a substantial source of revenue to, and benefitting from the Government of the Russian Federation, which is responsible for the annexation of Crimea and the destabilisation of Ukraine.

Associated entities: Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK)

Entités associées: Magnitogorsk Iron & SteelWorks (MMK). Viktor Rashnikov est un homme d’affaires russe influent qui est propriétaire et président du conseil d’administration de l’entreprise Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK). MMK est l’un des plus grands contribuables de la Russie. La charge fiscale pesant sur l’entreprise a récemment augmenté, ce qui a entraîné une hausse considérable des recettes pour le budget de l’État russe. Viktor Rashnikov reçoit également un soutien du gouvernement russe et des décideurs russes. Par ailleurs, il a figuré parmi les femmes et hommes d’affaires russes influents qui ont participé au congrès de l’Union russe des industriels et des entrepreneurs en mars 2023, au cours duquel le président de la Fédération de Russie Vladimir Poutine a prononcé un discours et a exhorté les milliardaires à faire passer “le patriotisme avant le profit”. Il est donc un homme d’affaires influent exerçant des activités en Russie ainsi qu’un homme d’affaires intervenant dans des secteurs économiques constituant une source substantielle de revenus pour le gouvernement de la Fédération de Russie, qui est responsable de l’annexion de la Crimée et de la déstabilisation de l’Ukraine, et tirant avantage de ce gouvernement.

Owner, Chair of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Committee for Strategic Planning of the Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK)

Financed Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine or managed finances in the interests of the Putin's regime or in order to maintain its stability by virtue of their position.

Metallurgical magnate, financed the election campaign of the governor of the Chelyabinsk Oblast Alexei Teksler, former deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk Oblast from the United Russia party

Billionare who made fortune with Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works