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Leonid Viktorovich MIKHELSON

Person of interest · Oligarch · Close Associate · Sanctioned entity

Leonid Viktorovich MIKHELSON is subject to sanctions. See the individual program listings below.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Leonid MIKHELSON · Leonid Michel'son · Leonid Michelson · Leonid Mihhelson · Leonid Mikhelson · 16 more...				[sources]
Other name	Leonid Michelson · Leonid V. Mikhelson · Leonid Viktorovich Mikhelson · Leonid Viktorovič Michel'son · Mikhelson Leonid · 10 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1955-08-11				[sources]
Place of birth	Kaspiysk · Kaspiysk Russia · Kaspiysk, Dagestan ASSR, RSFSR, USSR · Kaspiysk, Russia · Каспийск, Дагестанская АССР, РСФСР, СССР · 1 more...				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Israel · Russia · Soviet Union				[sources]
Country	Russia				[sources]
First name	Leonid · Leonid Viktorovich · ЛЕОНИД · Леонид				[sources]
INN	`773600432474`				[sources]
Keywords	Олігархи та члени їх сімей				[sources]
Last name	MIKHELSON · МИХЕЛЬСОН · Михельсон				[sources]
Patronymic	ВИКТОРОВИЧ · Викторович				[sources]
Second name	Viktorovich				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1819424				[sources]
Position	Chairman of the Board of Directors, PAO Sibur · Chairman of the Board of the Russian gas company PAO Novatek, Chairman of the Board of Directors and the largest shareholder of the leading Russian petrochemical holding Sibur · Chairman of the Management Board and Board Member of the Board of Directors, Novatek PJSC · chief executive officer · Голова правління російської газової компанії ПАТ «Новатек», голова ради директорів і найбільший акціонер провідного російського нафтохімічного холдингу «Сибур» · 1 more...				[sources]
Education	Samara State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering				[sources]
Ethnicity	German Russian				[sources]
Source link	info.publicintelligence.net · sanctions.nazk.gov.ua				[sources]
Created at	2022-04-06				[sources]
Modified on	2024-04-03				[sources]
Last changed	2024-05-10	Last checked	2024-05-15	First seen	2022-01-01

Descriptions

Founder and chairman of Novatek

— Australian Sanctions Consolidated List, 2023-04-20

Transport sanctions: ships owned, controlled, chartered or operated by the individual are prohibited from entering a port in the UK; may be given a movement or a port entry direction, can be detained, and will be refused permission to register on the UK Ship Register or have its existing registration terminated. An aircraft owned, chartered or operated by the individual is prohibited from overflying or landing in the UK, may be given a movement direction, can be detained or moved to a specified airport, and will be refused permission to register on the CAA Aircraft Register or have its existing registration terminated. Prohibition of technical assistance relating to aircraft and ships: a prohibition on the provision of technical assistance relating to aircraft or ships will prevent a person from directly or indirectly providing technical assistance to, or for the benefit of, the designated person, where that technical assistance relates to an aircraft or ship.

— UK FCDO Sanctions List, 2024-05-09

Chair of the board of NOVATEK

— New Zealand Russia Sanctions, 2024-03-21

Contributed money to the authorized capital of Dmitry Medvedev's "charitable foundations". According to credible data from a public investigation, he controls companies that provide financial and organizational assistance to the Russian Ministry of Defence in recruiting contract soldiers to participate in hostilities in Ukraine.

— ACF List of bribetakers and warmongers non-official source, 2023-09-21

Mentioned in 2018 CAATSA report on Russian oligarchs

— Russian Oligarch/Billionaires Database non-official source, 2024-04-14

Russian businessman

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Assets and shares
Asset	Percentage held	Start date	End date
ОБЩЕСТВО С ОГРАНИЧЕННОЙ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТЬЮ "СТЕЛЛА"	100	2016-05-24	2017-09-01
ОБЩЕСТВО С ОГРАНИЧЕННОЙ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТЬЮ "ОРИОН"	100	2016-05-20	2017-08-24
ОБЩЕСТВО С ОГРАНИЧЕННОЙ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТЬЮ "ТРАСТ"	100	2014-11-05	-
ОБЩЕСТВО С ОГРАНИЧЕННОЙ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТЬЮ "ЛЕОН"	-	2002-12-19	2003-10-13
ОБЩЕСТВО С ОГРАНИЧЕННОЙ ОТВЕСТВЕННОСТЬЮ "НОВА"	100	2019-10-14	-
ОБЩЕСТВО С ОГРАНИЧЕННОЙ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТЬЮ "ЛЕВИТ"	78.2902	2006-09-08	-
ОБЩЕСТВО С ОГРАНИЧЕННОЙ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТЬЮ "ЛЕВИТ"	-	2003-12-15	2004-06-30
ОБЩЕСТВО С ОГРАНИЧЕННОЙ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТЬЮ "АЛЬФА"	100	2015-09-21	2015-09-21
ЧАСТНОЕ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЕ КУЛЬТУРЫ "ВИКТОРИЯ"	-	2020-07-23	-
ОБЩЕСТВО С ОГРАНИЧЕННОЙ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТЬЮ "ГРАНТ"	100	2014-11-05	2017-11-17
Ges-2 LLC	0.098	2015-09-28	-
ОБЩЕСТВО С ОГРАНИЧЕННОЙ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТЬЮ "ВИКТОРИЯ"	100	2006-01-18	2021-03-22
ОБЩЕСТВО С ОГРАНИЧЕННОЙ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТЬЮ "БРЕНД"	75	2005-11-24	2011-03-22
ОБЩЕСТВО С ОГРАНИЧЕННОЙ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТЬЮ "ОПТИМА 1"	100	2019-06-28	2019-06-28
ОБЩЕСТВО С ОГРАНИЧЕННОЙ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТЬЮ "ОМЕГА"	100	2016-02-18	2018-03-12
Stantep LLC	100	2007-07-16	-
ОБЩЕСТВО С ОГРАНИЧЕННОЙ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТЬЮ "ОПТИМА"	100	2015-12-23	-

Directorships
Organization	Role	Start date	End date
OAO NOVATEK	ПРЕДСЕДАТЕЛЬ ПРАВЛЕНИЯ	2007-03-19	-

Sanctions
Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Global Affairs Canada	Russia / Russie	-	-
National Security and Defense Council	727/2022	2022-10-19	2032-10-19
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade	Russia Sanctions Act 2022	2022-10-12	-
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) · UK	The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019	2022-04-06	-
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)	Autonomous (Russia)	2022-04-06	-
Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation · UK	Russia	2022	-
National Agency on Corruption Prevention	-	2022-10-19	-

Data sources

Australian Sanctions Consolidated List4,080

The Consolidated List is a list of all persons and entities who are subject to targeted financial sanctions under Australian sanctions law

Australia · Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)

Wikidata Entities of Interest3,928

Persons of interest profiles from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

Ukraine NSDC State Register of Sanctions17,115

List of individuals and legal entities subject to restrictive measures.

Ukraine · National Security and Defense Council

ACF List of bribetakers and warmongers7,944

A list of key Russian decision-makers from government and business composed by ACF/FBK, the anti-corruption investigative organization founded by Alexei Navalny

Russia · Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) · non-official source

New Zealand Russia Sanctions1,657

The New Zealand government's list of people and companies sanctioned in relation to the Russian attack on Ukraine.

New Zealand · Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

UK FCDO Sanctions List4,424

UK sanctions collated by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

United Kingdom · Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)

Russian Oligarch/Billionaires Database167

A list of billionaires and oligarchs from CIS countries, most notably the Russian Federation.

OpenSanctions · non-official source

Ukraine NABC Sanctions Tracker39,896

A list of suggested Russia-related sanctions targets composed by the Ukrainian anti-corruption agency.

Ukraine · National Agency on Corruption Prevention

UK HMT/OFSI Consolidated List of Targets5,918

The United Kingom's consolidated international sanctions list.

United Kingdom · Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation

Forbes 2021 List of Russian Billionaires100

Based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets compiled and published by Forbes magazine in 2021.

Russia · Wikipedia · non-official source

Canadian Special Economic Measures Act Sanctions4,245

Sanctions imposed by Canada on specific countries, organizations, or individuals under the Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA) and JVCFOA

Canada · Global Affairs Canada

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata225,285

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Russian Unified State Register of Legal Entities (EGRUL)135,839

Companies database of the Russian Federation as maintained and published by the Federal Tax Service.

External dataset · Russia · Федеральная Налоговая Служба

Source data IDs: au-dfat-6896-leonid-mikhelson · gb-fcdo-rus1126 · ca-sema-russia-1-728 · nz-ru-ind-793 · gb-hmt-15073 · acf-ca56bcc7d04869d68877c31e8374379bbaa7815a · ua-nabc-person-2024-mikhelson-leonid-viktorovich · ua-nazk-person-2024 · acf-92c7a404d5c1df229423714dfd4fe45aa1112a4a · acf-470cefc7f58aa91f904efde7c65d8c3ed47e7e34 · nz-ru-ind-782-leonid-mikhelson · NK-HazYxN3Y8V3hLNUDDjccy9 · ua-nsdc-19733-mihelson-leonid-viktorovic · acf-8a8132c919cbfb4e2a76923a2a039644b741c69d · ru-inn-773600432474 · ca-sema-1-728-ru-leonid-viktorovich-mikhelson

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