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Canonical ID: Q124776 · Entity type: Person (reference)
| Property | Value | Lang | Source dataset | Source ID | First seen | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Person:alias | Makhmudov Iskander Kakhramonovich | ru_acf_bribetakers | acf-411326337f11c018546a04e692a1e10271dff9f8 | ||||
Person:alias | Махмудов Искандар Кахрамонович | rus | ru_acf_bribetakers | acf-411326337f11c018546a04e692a1e10271dff9f8 | |||
Person:birthDate | 1963-12-05 | ru_acf_bribetakers | acf-411326337f11c018546a04e692a1e10271dff9f8 | ||||
Person:createdAt | 2022-10-13 | ru_acf_bribetakers | acf-411326337f11c018546a04e692a1e10271dff9f8 | ||||
Person:gender | male | ru_acf_bribetakers | acf-411326337f11c018546a04e692a1e10271dff9f8 | ||||
Person:id | 1efb8d526509560ecd3e202e76572e8980b6911c | ru_acf_bribetakers | acf-411326337f11c018546a04e692a1e10271dff9f8 | ||||
Person:name | Makhmudov Iskandar Kakhramonovich | eng | ru_acf_bribetakers | acf-411326337f11c018546a04e692a1e10271dff9f8 | |||
Person:notes | Billionaire oligarch, founder and President of JSC Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company. Placed 19th in the 2021 Forbes ranking of the richest businessmen in Russia with a fortune of $ 9.7 billion. Closely linked to Russian organized crime, including close connections with the leader of the Tambov organized crime group Gennadiy Petrov and the Izmailovo organized crime group that controlled the coal and aluminum enterprises. Was involved in and financially benefitted from corruption schemes and money laundering operations designed to provide corrupt sources of income to oligarchs, politicians and government officials and their families. Companies whose main shareholders are Iskander Makhmudov and Andrey Bokarev - Transmashholding, Metrowagonmash, Oktyabrsky Electric Railway Car Repair Plant, Roslokomotiv - received government contracts wirth a total of 130.7 billion rubles from Russian Railways and the Moscow Metro awarded to them in violation of anti-corruption regulations. | ru_acf_bribetakers | acf-411326337f11c018546a04e692a1e10271dff9f8 | ||||
Person:notes | He is a billionaire, an oligarch, a founder, and a President of Ural Mining and Metallurgical Co OJSC (UGMK)—the largest copper producer in Russia and the ninth largest in the world. In 2024, he was ranked 21st on Forbes' list of '125 Billionaires of Russia', with a fortune of 8.3 billion USD. He is a major defence contractor through Kolomensky Zavod JSC, which produces diesel engines for Russian military ships and submarines, conducts business in the occupied territories of Ukraine. Makhmudov produces locomotives at Luhanskteplovoz PJSC, and controls a significant share of railway transportation in Russia. These assets are the result of his corrupt connections. He has been involved in and benefited financially from corruption schemes and money laundering operations designed to provide corrupt sources of income to oligarchs, politicians, government officials, and their families. Transmashholding (TMH), whose main shareholders are Iskandar Makhmudov and Andrey Bokarev, signed state contracts for 30 years in advance with Russian Railways and Moscow Metro totaling approximately 9.3 billion USD in 2014 (at the exchange rate as of the end of 2014). The group of companies within UGMK supplies copper powders to Chapayevsk Mechanical Plant (producer of explosives), lead to Prometey Central Scientific Research Institute Of Structural Materials (contractor for military shipyards), oleum to Perm Powder Plant, Solikamsk Plant Ural (producer of systems for anti-tank missiles), and Siberian Chemical Combine. Shadrinsk Auto Aggregate Plant OJSC, also part of UGMK, is a supplier to many defence enterprises. | ru_acf_bribetakers | acf-411326337f11c018546a04e692a1e10271dff9f8 | ||||
Person:topics | role.oligarch | ru_acf_bribetakers | acf-411326337f11c018546a04e692a1e10271dff9f8 | ||||
Person:topics | poi | ru_acf_bribetakers | acf-411326337f11c018546a04e692a1e10271dff9f8 | ||||