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Canonical ID: Q4090520 · Entity type: Person (reference)
| Property | Value | Lang | Source dataset | Source ID | First seen | ||
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Person:notes | Billionaire oligarch, co-owner and Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC Transmashholding and JSC Kuzbassrazrezugol Management Company, member of the Board of Directors of JSC Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company and JSC Altai-Koks. Closely linked to Russian organized crime, including close connections with the leader of the Tambov organized crime synducate 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 worth 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-92430643f0070fc29ea355f6a665866bfdc0c557 | ||||
Person:notes | He is a Russian oligarch, ranked 36th on Forbes' list of '125 Billionaires of Russia', with a fortune of 3.9 billion USD. He participated in meetings with Putin on the day Russia invaded Ukraine and on March 16, 2023, expressing support for the actions of the Russian authorities. He is a co-owner of Transmashholding JSC and Kuzbassrazrezugol Management Company JSC, and a shareholder of Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company JSC (UGMK). The UGMK group of companies supplies copper powders to the Chapayevsk Mechanical Plant (producer of explosives), lead to the Prometey Central Scientific Research Institute of Structural Materials (contractor for military shipyards), oleum to the Perm Powder Plant, and Solikamsk Plant Ural (producer of systems for anti-tank missiles), as well as supplies to the Siberian Chemical Combine. Shadrinsk Auto Aggregate Plant OJSC, also part of UGMK, is a supplier to many defence enterprises. Through the censored media outlets, which are part of his 'European Media Group' LLC, he controls censored media outlets, spreading propaganda and providing informational services to high-ranking officials. He has close ties to Russian organized crime, including connections with the leader of the Tambov organized crime syndicate, Gennadiy Petrov, and the Izmailovo organized crime group that controlled coal and aluminum enterprises. He has been involved in and financially benefited from corruption schemes and money laundering operations designed to provide illicit income to oligarchs, politicians, government officials, and their families. Transmashholding (TMH), whose main shareholders are Iskandar Makhmudov and Andrey Bokarev, signed state contracts with Russian Railways and Moscow Metro totaling approximately 9.3 billion USD in advance over 30 years in 2014 (at the exchange rate as of the end of 2014). Since the start of the war, Andrey Bokarev has maintained assets within the territory of the European Union, such as the Riga Electric Machine Building Plant (RER) and its subsidiary LATVO, engaged in wholesale trade of machinery and equipment. | ru_acf_bribetakers | acf-92430643f0070fc29ea355f6a665866bfdc0c557 | ||||
Person:notes | Mentioned in 2018 CAATSA report on Russian oligarchs | eng | wd_oligarchs | Q4090520 | |||
Person:notes | (also ANDREY REMOVICH BOKAREV, ANDREY REMOVICH BOKAREV) | eng | us_sam_exclusions | usgsa-s4mrqxf0v | |||
Person:notes | (also ANDREI REMOVICH BOKAREV) | eng | us_sam_exclusions | usgsa-s4mrty39z | |||
Person:notes | (also ANDREI REMOVICH BOKAREV) | eng | us_sam_exclusions | usgsa-s4mrty877 | |||
Person:notes | President of Transmashholding (TMH) | au_dfat_sanctions | au-dfat-6903-andrey-bokarev | ||||
Person:notes | Russian businessman | eng | wikidata | Q4090520 | |||
Person:notes | Disqualified | eng | gb_coh_disqualified | gb-coh-ew41gxoyddsuu8gfn-i3csmzp3q | |||
Person:notes | Transport sanction: where transport sanctions apply, a ship owned, controlled, chartered or operated by a designated person is 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. Similarly, an aircraft owned, chartered or operated by a designated person 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. In addition, there is a prohibition of the provision of technical assistance relating to aircraft or ships which 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. The Director Disqualification Sanction was imposed on 09/04/2025. | eng | gb_fcdo_sanctions | gb-fcdo-rus1335 | |||
Person:notes | Former President and former member of the board of Transmashholding; Chair of the board of Kuzbassrazrezugol | nz_russia_sanctions | nz-ru-ind-759-andrey-bokarev | ||||