Alekperov Vagit Yusufovich - Persons - Defector. Who owns Lukoil? Russian oil company PJSC "Lukoil" President of the company Lukoil Vagit Alekperov
How was the largest private oil company in Russia, Lukoil, created? How did all these countless assets end up in the hands of Alekperov and his team? Why do members of this team enjoy truly royal immunity?
Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov looks, perhaps, the happiest and most sinless among the leaders and shareholders of private oil and gas companies in Russia. He did not have to develop projects in a competitive environment, did not have to fight for a place under the cold oil and gas sun in the harsh market reality - he received his company on a silver platter with such a blue border that one can only marvel.
Fast road to Kogalym
The portrait of fatherlessness (Alekperov's father died in the cold 1953, when the boy was three years old), which the biographers of the oligarch love to demonstrate, becomes somehow unconvincing if you look at further events. Apparently, Vagit did not serve in the army. The chronology of his official biography (work experience from the age of 22, graduated from the most prestigious institute of the republic at the age of 24) leaves a couple of years for repaying the debt to the Motherland, but that small part of our elite that really served usually does not miss the opportunity to brag about this circumstance, from Alekperov no one heard the soldiers' tales. Digression: in general, Vagit Yusufovich respects the military very much, they say that about a third of LUKoil managers are former military personnel. Other things being equal, they will always hire a former officer, or at least a former officer - such people are less inclined to reason. For the right to argue in the current "Lukoil" is only one person.
The miracles that took place in Baku after Alekperov graduated from the institute, from 1974 to 1979, have not yet been deciphered by science. An ordinary oil and gas production operator changed several positions in less than six years and, in less than 30 years, became the deputy head of the local oil field. There are almost no such quarries even now, and even more so in Soviet times.
But these were just positions, salary and respect. And Vagit Yusufovich took the acceleration on the path to glory in 1979, when he, a young communist and an unusually talented specialist, was sent from warm Baku to develop West Siberian deposits. He ended up at Surgutneftegaz, where he also moved up the ranks extremely quickly. In 1983, Alekperov moved to Kogalym, where he became the head of the local oil and gas production department, that is, the actual owner of the monotown. Since 1987, he has been the general director of the production association Kogalymneft.
Boring? Oh no, in those years it was not boring at all. It was in Kogalym that Alekperov made acquaintances, which a little later would allow him to take off on the crest of an oil wave. Here we should mention Alexander Putilov, who headed Urayneftegaz, Yuri Shafranik, the king of Langepasneftegaz, as well as the enterprising Gennady Bogomolov, who will be discussed below.
No Union - no property
In January 1990, the career of a still fairly young manager entered a new round - he became the youngest deputy minister of the USSR and the youngest official in such a position in the history of the Ministry of Oil and Gas Industry. A year later - the first deputy minister. And, unlike other allied departments, powerless in front of the newly formed Russian and republican parallel structures, the oilmen of the USSR held their power firmly. It was the progressive-minded Deputy Minister Alekperov, who, having peeped the idea of VIOCs from the Italians, proposed to implement it in Russia as well. VINK is a vertically integrated oil company, that is, it deals with the entire cycle - from geological exploration to retail sales of gasoline. Gazprom had already been created, and in anticipation of the advancing capitalism, the state should have taken care of the oil assets. The state company Rosneftegaz, the future Rosneft, was created in 1991, but, unlike Gazprom, it failed to keep the main assets in the ownership of the country. And the main reason for this was the energetic work of Vagit Alekperov.
A month before the legal death of the Soviet Union, its Council of Ministers sang its swan song - it turned out to be Decree No. 18 of November 25, 1991, according to which the richest oil producing and processing enterprises were united in VINK under the ear-sweet name "LangepasUrayKogalym-neft". Later, the first three letters of the key mining assets formed the well-known ONION, from any attempt to clean which both competitors and journalists invariably cried.
Even then, Alekperov, under the patronage of his union minister Leonid Filimonov, actually controlled the enterprise. And although the official career of Vagit Yusufovich ended with the collapse of the USSR, his influence did not weaken, on the contrary.
At the end of 1992, President Boris Yeltsin signed the famous decree No. 1403 "On the specifics of the privatization and transformation into joint-stock companies of state enterprises, production and research and production associations of the oil, oil refining industry and oil products supply" - the fate of the state share in the oil industry was a foregone conclusion (with gas it didn’t work out that way - Viktor Chernomyrdin saved the industry from full privatization). And in early 1993, the solitaire finally took shape - Yuri Shafranik, a longtime ally of Alekperov, became the head of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy. And a black oil sun rose over the LUKoil empire.
But the asset had to be somehow taken away from state hands - Alekperov did not want to work as a hired manager in his fifth decade, he had already done this in Baku, the Tyumen villages and Kogalym.
Privatization and loans-for-shares auction
The privatization of Lukoil began in earnest in 1994. In 1995, by a government decree, LUKoil received controlling stakes in nine large enterprises operating in all parts of the production chain. At the same time, the shares of the new giant were placed through companies with good Russian names Paribas, CS First Boston and the like. In part, Alekperov and his team settled with the state with American IOUs, and in 1996 The Bank of New York announced that it was becoming a "trustee" of Lukoil in the process of issuing convertible bonds.
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So it was LUKoil that became the pioneer of the infamous loans-for-shares auctions. “Our company itself is able to give the Russian government a certain amount of money on the security of its shares. At the same time, the government can buy back these shares from Lukoil at a convenient moment. We are not interested in the government completely abandoning its stake, ”LUKavil then the future main shareholder of the company. Then the next 5% of the state's oil shagreen skin passed into private hands (apparently affiliated with the management of Lukoil) for $35 million, less than a dollar per share.
For comparison, at the first stage of privatization, a share cost $6.1. But foreign companies were not allowed to the second. By comparison, 5% of the company is now worth $3.3 billion—nearly 100 times more. And one should not think that during this time LUKoil has grown a hundred times - there was simply a colossal underestimation, a colossal underpayment to the state, for which, in fact, loans-for-shares auctions were started. But Boris Yeltsin, who approved them, received unlimited support in the 1996 elections.
State interests were not taken into account in the process of privatization. Rather, the state interests of other countries were taken into account, but not Russia,
- said then the head of the Accounts Chamber Veniamin Sokolov.
You better not say. At that time, the American Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) became a strategic partner of LUKoil, and to a large extent the business of the largest player in the Russian oil market was controlled from overseas. Well, about his attitude to his homeland, whether it be Azerbaijan or Russia, Alekperov himself speaks unequivocally:.
Were these schemes corrupt? No, because there is no court decision condemning even the extreme forms of privatization of the 1990s. Were they honest and moral from a philistine point of view? Neither, because they were the embodiment of the principle of "pull every nail from work" on a truly cosmic scale.
Everyone lived like this
The life of the independent "Lukoil" in the nineties proceeded according to the laws of these same nineties. So, on numerous sites of black PR, the fiction that the Most group of Vladimir Gusinsky threw in 1998 is repeated - that the then head of government Viktor Chernomyrdin allegedly shelved a note by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Anatoly Kulikov, about the numerous connections of Lukoil with the criminal world. Anatoly Sergeevich resolutely denied to Tsargrad the existence of such a note.
A. Kulikov. Photo: gov-news.ru
It is more difficult with another accusation - in close contacts with Gennady Bogomolov, whom the media of that time called a thief in law, nicknamed Bogomol. This man really headed Lukoil-Market and actively defended his reputation from media suspicions. Nevertheless, he is confidently called "a tacit co-owner of LUKoil, convicted three times." They wrote about disagreements between friends back in 2001, but they parted later.
How things were done around LUKoil is clearly seen from the investigation into the kidnapping of LUKoil Vice President Sergei Kukura - this long detective story is characterized by the fact that the kidnapped manager got away with it, but the organizer of his kidnapping was shot dead. By the way, Bogomolov also plays an important role there, who preferred to negotiate with the kidnappers without going to the police.
Now Gennady Semyonovich is the president of the board of directors of Agriko LLC. “No offshore, gray schemes and fictitious entrepreneurship,” colleagues cheerfully write about a company 100% owned by the Dutch Martiniko Beheer I B.V. By the way, something, but these people love to read touching materials about themselves. So the rest of the once mighty "Russian Planet" published an enthusiastic panegyric to Alekperov to the point of implausibility. The author even got confused at what exact age young Vagit supplied a large family with fish - at first it was at five or six years old, and then at four years old. And then - an impeccable biography of the great monogamous, a worker from God, the creator of a great company.
Let's get back from panegyrics to reality. Separately, it is pleasing that all these complex manipulations with the withdrawal of LUKoil from the control of the Russian Federation were carried out, it seems ... by a citizen of independent Estonia. In 2002, it became known that the Estonian government intended to take away the passport from the Azerbaijani-Russian tycoon, because he received it, possibly on forged documents. They write that Alekperov became an Estonian, since his mother, who in all biographies passes as a Cossack Tatyana Bocharova, once had Estonian citizenship. And at some point, the authorities of the Baltic country doubted this. The further fate of Alekperov's European passport is unknown.
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Unfortunately, the right to property is automatically accompanied by the obligation to pay taxes. She was interpreted quite freely in Lukoil. So, in April 2002, the Accounts Chamber revealed violations in the payment of excise taxes for 2000 and 2001 by Nizhny Novgorod-Nefteorgsintez and Lukoil-Permnefteorgsintez, which were part of the LUKoil system. It was about billions, but the Ministry of Taxes and Duties was not interested in these documents. In 2003, the Nizhny Novgorod region complained about the shortfall of two billion rubles from excises and the monopolist's inflated prices for gasoline. To no avail.
Although, of course, life changed in the 2000s. Social responsibility has replaced detective showdowns. Thus, the owners of large stakes in LUKoil took on an important mission - the development of FC Spartak (Moscow), perhaps the most popular sports club in Russia. In 2004, the vice-president of LUKoil, Leonid Fedun, was believed to have acquired the team, and ... in general, it was difficult to call it development, Spartak, spoiled by victories, fell into an unprecedented trophy drought. Only in 2019 did it become clear that although Fedun has always been the face of Spartak, Alekperov's share is actually larger. For some reason, colossal ownership chains have been created there with a significant offshore part (no one should know who owns the “narcokomanda”), which is crowned by Sport-Holding LLC and Capital Assets JSC, which control the legendary football club.
L. Fedun. Photo: www.globallookpress.com
For 12 years before LUKoil, Spartak was the champion of Russia nine times, in 15 years with LUKoil - once. But people are busy doing what they love.
Do you refuel at Lukoil?
A dirty story that happened in 2010 added some color to the bright image of Lukoil. At the end of February, Anatoly Barkov, vice-president of Lukoil, who was extremely in a hurry on his Alekperov affairs, got into an accident on Leninsky Prospekt in his S-class Mercedes - he collided with an oncoming Citroën C3. The Citroen driver died on the spot, her passenger, Doctor of Medical Sciences Vera Sidelnikova, died in intensive care. Mr. Barkov received minor injuries. The criminal case was not opened for a long time, the video recordings disappeared, and the Citroen woman was found guilty. As you can see, LUKoil has huge opportunities to influence the investigation. After all, even when a video was leaked to the Web, where Barkov's Mercedes frankly drives along the median strip and seeks to meet the oncoming lane, when President Dmitry Medvedev personally instructed to objectively understand the story, nothing was done. The case was closed only in 2013, the dead woman remained guilty, and the driver of the Mercedes was not even deprived of her license.
Video of the Barkov accident from surveillance cameras
It is interesting that the slogan “I don’t refuel at Lukoil” appeared a year and a half earlier than this sad event. It was invented back in the summer of 2008 by Spartak fans from the Fratria group, just outraged by the five-year period without trophies (the poor fellows would know how much more they could endure). And after the events of February 25, 2010, this slogan was intercepted by ordinary motorists.
A normal human decision on the part of Mr. Alekperov would be a public admission of guilt by the driver Barkov, his resignation and payment of compensation to the victims. He did none of this. Barkov retired honorably three and a half years later. And the tradition of Lukoil races is the son of another vice-president, Azat Shamsuarov.
An unprecedented career take-off on fuel unknown to science. Privatization of an enterprise entrusted by the state with the help of Americans for ridiculous money. Extremely dubious partners. Easy attitude to taxes. All this with an Estonian passport in your pocket. This is how Lukoil rose.
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In general, there are an incredible number of big and small scandals - from the tax hole in 1997 to attempts to buy up the land of "Massandra" in 2016, there will not be enough Runet volumes to list everything in detail. But the result is impressive: Vagit Alekperov's fortune is estimated at more than $20 billion, he is the fourth richest man in Russia (Forbes, 2019) and has unofficial immunity from any persecution.
All this would be decidedly impossible if the institute of reputation operated in our state and business community. We are very kind people and easily let go of small sins to good friends. Moreover, a full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (why are these guys all as one trying to pass for great scientists?) Is actively involved in charity work and even intends to bequeath his considerable share of LUKoil not to children, but to a charitable foundation.
How can you disrespect such a person?
Head of the Alekperovs Family Charitable Foundation, Shareholder of the Management Company "Business and Investments"
"Family"
"News"
Vagit Alekperov forbade heirs to split a stake in Lukoil
Vagit Alekperov created Lukoil in 1992, since then he has been its permanent president and largest co-owner - his family owns 24.8% of the company's shares. On March 23, he admitted that he was worried about the future of the company and therefore forbade the heirs to split the package. “It is already on paper, including in my will, that the package cannot be divided or broken up,” Alekperov said. “I do not even admit the idea that the heirs will be able to disperse this block of shares, which will lead to some unpredictable actions,” he added.
ALEKPEROV VAGIT YUSUFOVICH
Alekperov Vagit Yusufovich, 09/01/1950 year of birth, a native of the village. Stepan Razin of the Azerbaijan SSR.
Graduated from the Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry.
In the period from 1972 to 1979, he worked at the Oil and Gas Production Department named after A. Serebrovsky of the Caspmorneft Production Association (Baku), where he worked his way up from an oil and gas production operator to an oil field deputy. Then he worked in senior positions in the oil industry of Azerbaijan and Western Siberia.
Petroleum products will be sent by family contract
As Kommersant found out, the son of the head and main shareholder of LUKOIL, Vagit Alekperov, Yusuf, is buying a small railway operator, Western Petroleum Transportation (VPT). This company historically closely cooperates with subsidiaries of LUKOIL. Kommersant's interlocutors do not rule out that VPT had previously belonged to LUKOIL shareholders.
The son of the head of LUKOIL, Vagit Alekperov, Yusuf, turned out to be the sole owner of EKTO LLC, follows from SPARK. On May 19, the FAS issued a preliminary permit to this company to purchase a 60% stake in the railway operator Western Petroleum Transportation LLC (VPT) from the offshore Raso Ventures, registered in the British Virgin Islands.
Forbes published the rating of the largest private companies in Russia
Three out of 11 members of Lukoil's board of directors are included in the Forbes ratings. The ranking of the richest women in the Russian Federation also includes the wife of Vagit Alekperova Larisa (21st place), who owns 0.175% of the shares of Lukoil. Another oil and gas company, Surgutneftegaz, dropped from 2nd to 4th place in this rating, while NOVATEK moved up from 13th to ninth place.
Lukoil again leads in the rating of the largest private companies according to the Russian Forbes
Three out of 11 members of the board of directors of Lukoil are included in the Forbes ratings. Vagit Alekperov and Leonid Fedun are sixth and 22nd in the list of the richest businessmen in Russia, Lyubov Khoba is 15th in the ranking of the richest women in Russia. The ranking of the richest women in Russia also includes the wife of Vagit Alekperova Larisa (21st place), who owns 0.175% of the shares of Lukoil.
Oleg Sienko and Ruslan Goryukhin joined the Board of Trustees of the Russian University of Oil and Gas
Oleg Sienko, General Director of JSC Research and Production Corporation Uralvagonzavod, and Ruslan Goryukhin, Director of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers New Technologies in the Gas Industry, became members of the Board of Trustees of the Russian University of Oil and Gas named after I.M. Gubkin. The Board of Trustees is headed by Viktor Zubkov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of PJSC Gazprom, and includes Alexander Dyukov, General Director of PJSC Gazprom Neft, Vladimir Bogdanov, General Director of OJSC Surgutneftegaz, Valery Greifer, Chairman of the Board of Directors of PJSC LUKOIL, Dmitry Konov - Chairman of the Management Board of SIBUR LLC, Sergey Kudryashov - General Director of Zarubezhneft OJSC, Dmitry Bulgakov - Deputy Minister of Defense for Logistics, Dmitry Kobylkin - Governor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Natalya Komarova - Governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Yugra, Sergey Donskoy - Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology, Larisa Alekperova - President of the Charitable Foundation, Alexander Novak - Minister of Energy, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolai Laverov.
The head of Lukoil will leave children without inheritance
In terms of family relations, Vagit Alekperov has a wife, Larisa, and a 25-year-old son, Yusuf, who currently works at Lukoil-Western Siberia.
Recall that Alekperov owns a 20.9% stake in Lukoil, he directly owns only 2.429% of the shares. The authorized capital of LUKOIL is 21.26 million rubles, divided into ordinary shares with a par value of 0.025 rubles.
Forbes named the richest heirs of Russian billionaires
The list was headed by Yusuf Alekperov. He is the only son of the head and main shareholder of LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov, he accounts for $ 8.9 billion (this is how much the magazine estimates his father's fortune).
Yusuf Alekperov was born in 1990, in 2012 he graduated from the Russian State University of Oil and Gas. Gubkin with a degree in development and operation of oil fields. In 2013, in the Big Watch program (a joint project of the Vedomosti newspaper and the Ekho Moskvy radio station), Vagit Alekperov said that his son was working in fields in Western Siberia. “He was also a worker, now a technologist. He will pass this way, and then let him choose his own fate, ”said the billionaire. Alekperov noted that he was not preparing a successor from his son. “I have already made sure that my shareholding, even if, God forbid, I leave this life, it will remain indivisible, it will remain in order to ensure the stability of the company for many years, and my son will not have the right to his split and sell,” he said.
The President of LUKOIL and his family bought the company's shares for 551 million rubles
At the same time, the president of the company increased his share by 0.028%, having bought 238.12 shares for the amount of 457.7 million rubles. His wife Larisa Alekperova purchased 27,000 shares for 51.7 million rubles, and his son, Yusuf Alekperov, purchased 22,000 shares for a total of 42.1 million rubles, RIA Novosti reports.
LUKOIL President Vagit Alekperov turns 60
You can often hear that Alekperov is a lucky man, a favorite of fortune. This is not entirely true. Close people know: everything that Vagit achieves is given to him by incredible work, by overcoming difficulties, in the struggle. But fate is really kind to him. Vagit Yusufovich has a reliable rear, a strong family. Wife Larisa Viktorovna is a true friend, support and support. She runs the Alekperov family charitable foundation. Faithful comrade-in-arms and sister - Nelli Yusufovna. Chose the path of the father and son Yusuf.
Quiet tycoon Vagit Alekperov
Married. Wife - Larisa Viktorovna. Son - Yusuf (born 1990). Hobbies Vagit Alekperov - travel, tourism. Free time for communication with friends and relatives appears on Saturdays, when he is open until 14-15, and the evening remains free. Lives in his own house in the Serebryany Bor microdistrict.
Personal life of billionaires: Russia
Vagit Alekperov is proud of his son. their son, Yusuf, was also born.
Main achievements
During the management Lukoil Alekperov has managed to build a fully private, publicly traded, vertically integrated oil company.
In 2015, he was ranked 6th on the Forbes list with a fortune 12.2 billion dollars.
Biography
Vagit Alekperov was born on September 1, 1950 in Baku in the family of an oilman. After her father's death in 1953, her mother raised her children alone.
In 1974 he graduated Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry in the specialty "Mining engineer for technology and complex mechanization of the development of oil and gas fields."
From 1972 to 1974 worked as an oil and gas production operator of a production association "Kaspmorneft", then became a senior process engineer of the district engineering service No. 2, a foreman in oil and gas production, a senior engineer, a deputy head of the oil field of the A. Serebrovsky Oil and Gas Production Department of the Caspmorneft.
According to the party order, he was sent to Western Siberia, in 1970-1980. held senior positions in oil and gas production departments "Surgutneftegaz" in the Tyumen region.
1985-1987 - First Deputy General Director of a production association (PO) "Bashneft" for Western Siberia of the Ministry of the Oil Industry of the USSR. 1987-1990 - CEO Production association "Kogalymneftegaz" Glavtyumenneftegaz (after the collapse of the Union, the association became part of Lukoil).
1990-1991 - Deputy Minister of the Oil and Gas Industry of the USSR. 1991-1992 - First Deputy Minister of the Oil and Gas Industry of the USSR.
1992-1993 - President of the oil concern "LangepasUrayKogalymneft" (the future "Lukoil", which united "Langepasneftegaz", "Urayneftegaz" and "Kogalymneftegaz" in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug).
In 1993, after the appointment of the ex-head of Langepasneftegaz Yuri Shafranik to the post of Minister of Fuel and Energy of the Russian Federation, Lukoil was transformed into a joint-stock company, Alekperov became president of the company. Alekperov and Shafranik were old acquaintances: in the second half of the 1980s, they simultaneously headed large oil fields in the KhMAO, which later became part of Lukoil.
Business interests
In addition to Lukoil, Alekperov is also involved in other areas of business. In 1995, he became chairman of the board of directors of Imperial Bank, at the same time being a co-owner of the bank with a stake of more than 30% of the shares. During the 1998 crisis, the bank lost its license.
He has a large business in Belarus: he owns one of the largest private oil traders involved in the supply of oil, its processing and export; the largest private network of gas stations, as well as a joint venture for the production of motor additives at Novopolotsk Naftan.
At the end of January 2015, Alekperov stated that the management LUKOIL consolidated control of the company. He plans to expand his stake to 30%. The largest stakes are owned by Alekperov himself and the vice president of the company Leonid Fedun, however, the size of their stakes, taking into account indirect - through affiliated structures - ownership, was previously announced by LUKOIL back in December 2012, when the shares were 20.87% and 9.5%, respectively. Only direct proportions are disclosed on an ongoing basis.
Lukoil is considering buying assets in Mexico and Iran after 2016, Alekperov told the media in April 2015.
Strokes for a portrait
Doctor of Economic Sciences, full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
Since 2000 - member of the board Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs(RSPP). Since 2007 - Founder of the fund of regional social programs "Our Future". Since 2010 - member of the board of the foundation "Skolkovo".
Married to Larisa Alekperova. Son Yusuf graduated in 2012 Russian State University of Oil and Gas. Gubkin in the specialty "Development and operation of oil fields".
He is fond of tennis and traveling, prefers to relax in the Crimea.
He was awarded the orders "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV and III degrees, "Glory" (Azerbaijan), "Madara Horseman" (Bulgaria). Alekperov called his idol Enrico Mattei- the creator of the Italian oil company "ENI": " It was a personality, he turned a state-owned enterprise into a company that still provides Italy with hydrocarbons", - said the businessman.
Rumors
Almost immediately after the creation of Lukoil in 1994, a partial privatization of the company was carried out, 45% of the shares remained in state ownership. The company's management, headed by Alekperov, received operational control over Lukoil through various structures, but the company's beneficiaries were not disclosed for a long time. Alekperov was included in the Forbes list only in 1997.
In 1996, Alekperov's structures acquired shares in a number of mass media, including the newspaper "News", TV channel TV-6 and others, soon the shares were sold. Journalists accused Alekperov of buying up the media on the order of the Kremlin, which the businessman himself never denied. The acquisition of a stake in TV-6 caused a conflict with Boris Berezovsky in 2001
In 1996, Alekperov became a confidant Boris Yeltsin in the presidential elections in the Tyumen region. The merchant also financed the election of governors in the regions of traditional activity of Lukoil: Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, the Kaliningrad Region, Komi. The businessman supported pro-government parties, in particular, "Above the house - Russia"(1998), block "Fatherland - All Russia"(1999), (2000s).
During the 1998 crisis, the bank "Imperial" revoked the license by transferring assets to another bank - "Petrocommerce", chairman of the board of directors of which in 1998-2000. was also Alekperov.
In 2000, Alekperov tried to block the appointment Sergei Kiriyenko to the post of presidential representative in the Volga Federal District. As prime minister, Kiriyenko neglected Lukoil's interests in several major oil projects.
In the early 2000s was in tense relations with the governor of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug Vladimir Butov, who was dissatisfied with the fact that Lukoil was taking control of all new fields, not actively developing them. In turn, Alekperov accused the local authorities of illegal extortion and obstruction of business.
In 2005, the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko lashed out at Lukoil, accusing the company of human trafficking. “And in certain representative offices of large companies, primarily in Lukoil, I will directly say this (sale of people - approx.). They came here to refine oil, and traded our girls abroad. testify." Lukashenka's accusations were not confirmed.
In 2007, the media reported Alekperov's intention to acquire a stake in the English football club "Tottenham", the deal fell through.
In 2007, the American company Green Oil accused Lukoil, Saudi Aramco and the Venezuelan state company PDVSA of inflating wholesale prices for petroleum products, suing for $25 billion. The American company lost the case.
Information about the intention of the former President of Azerbaijan has repeatedly appeared in the media Heydar Aliyev appoint Alekperov vice-president of the republic.
Born on September 1, 1950 in Baku, Razina settlement (Azerbaijan)
In 1974, he graduated from the Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry with a degree in mining engineer for technology and complex mechanization of oil and gas field development.
Doctor of Economic Sciences.
Author of the monograph "Vertical Integrated Oil Companies of Russia: Methodology of Formation and Implementation".
He was awarded the Orders of Friendship of Peoples and the Badge of Honor, the medal "For the development and development of the oil and gas complex in Western Siberia".
For merits in the development of economic relations between Azerbaijan and Russia, he was awarded the Order of Glory.
1974-1977 - senior process engineer of the district engineering and technology service N 2 of the A. Serebrovsky Oil and Gas Production Department of the Kaspmorneft.
1977-1978 - shift supervisor, ibid.
1978 - foreman in oil and gas production at NGDU.
1978-1979 - senior engineer, deputy head of the oil field of the NGDU named after A. Serebrovsky.
1979 - senior engineer of the oil field No. 2 of the Fedorovskneft Oil and Gas Production Department of the Surgutneftegaz Production Association of Glavtyumenneftegaz of the USSR Ministry of the Oil Industry, Surgut, Tyumen Region.
1979-1980 - head of oil field No. 2 of NGDU Fedorovskneft.
1980-1981 - Head of the Central Engineering and Technological Service of NGDU "Kholmogorneft" of Production Association "Surgutneftegaz", pos. Noyabrsk, Purovsky district, Tyumen region.
1981-1983 - Chief Engineer, Deputy Head of Oil and Gas Production Department "Lyantorneft" Production Association "Surgutneftegaz", pos. Lyantor, Surgut district, Tyumen region.
1983-1985 - Head of NGDU "Povkhneft" of Production Association "Surgutneftegaz", pos. Kogalym, Surgut district, Tyumen region. 1985-1987 - First Deputy General Director of Production Association "Bashneft" for Western Siberia of the Ministry of Oil Industry of the USSR, Kogalym.
1987-1990 - General Director of Production Association "Kogalymneftegaz" of Glavtyumenneftegaz, Kogalym.
1990-1991 - Deputy Minister of the Oil and Gas Industry of the USSR.
1991-1992 - First Deputy Minister of the Oil and Gas Industry of the USSR
1992-1993 - President of the oil concern "LUKOIL".
From 1993 to the present - President of OAO "LUKOIL".
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In a narrow circle, Alekperov is called "Don". He even stretches out his hand at a meeting so that she has to fall almost in a kiss. Alekperov earned "every minute" respect because he knows the oil industry "in and out". Started as a simple driller, rose to the director of the field. As a professional, he was formed in the Siberian Kogalym, heading Kogalymneftegaz, from there the psychology "I can do anything." There, in Kogalym, Alekperov received another nickname from the drillers - Alek the First - for the fact that, contrary to party guidelines, he built normal brick houses for workers, and not barracks. Another story of those years - Alekperov sat on a damaged pipe, from which oil was flowing, in order to give moral support to welders who were afraid of an explosion. Under Alekperov, the standard of living in Kogalym was considered the highest in the USSR - payments for oil were made in cash. The builder of the "bright future" was soon transferred to work in the Ministry of Oil and Gas Industry of the USSR. Alekperov was the youngest first deputy minister in the history of the ministry - it is still not known exactly who patronized him for this post. The head of the Ministry was Leonid Filimonov (he headed Nizhnevartovskneftegaz, then he was president of the Eastern Oil Company). In collaboration with him, Alekperov developed a scheme for the vertical integration of oil companies - VIOCs. So, at the end of 1991, the first international oil concern LUKOIL appeared in Russia, which included Urayneftegaz and Langepasneftegaz. With their leaders Putilov Alexander and Shafranik Yuri (the latter later headed the oil and gas ministry and helped the "oil king" Vagit a lot in business), Alekperov met back in Kogalym. Volgograd and Perm oil refineries were also included in LUKOIL. The name of the concern was given by the first letters of the names of the cities of Langepas, Uray and Kogalym. At the same time, the American Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) became a major shareholder and strategic partner of LUKOIL. LUKOIL is gaining a reputation as a pro-American company.
(Source: "Aloud about ...", May 2003; "Top Secret", November 2002)
Since then, not a single oil project has passed by LUKoil. The development of the Timan-Pechora, the Arctic or Caspian shelves, the Baltic transit, the construction of the Baltic pipeline system and the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, the construction of a new oil terminal in the north, the development of the tanker fleet and the order for the production of railway tanks - everywhere LUKoil. Moreover, the company tried to control directly competing projects. The goal was one - expansion in all directions under the auspices of state interests. Today, LUKoil is 1.3% of the world's oil reserves and 2.3% of the world's oil production. If we talk about Russia, then LUKoil is 18.6% of all-Russian oil production and 18.1% of all-Russian oil refining
In 1993, Boris Yeltsin signed a decree on the privatization of oil industry enterprises. Then Alekperov voiced the idea that there should not be more than three or four oil companies in the country. He actually took away the tidbits of the oil sector.
The then president of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev, hoped that Alekperov would defend the interests of Azerbaijan in Moscow, but everything turned out the other way around. Alekperov defended, first of all, the interests of Moscow. But, despite the demonstrated loyalty, in the late 90s, Alekperov began a conflict with the authorities. On the one hand, Putin did not want to tolerate too large and independent monopolies. On the other hand, LUKoil began to interfere with its main competitor Sibneft, the company of the "family". As a result, a criminal case was initiated against Lukoil for concealing hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes. Viktor Kalyuzhny, an outspoken lobbyist for the interests of Lukoil, left the post of Minister of Fuel and Energy (it is noteworthy that Alekperov did not take him to his company, apparently not too pleased with the work of the “hand minister”). And Alekperov himself was "convicted" in a dubious connection with the criminal authority Bogomolov, nicknamed Bogomol (Tyumen organized criminal group). He was even listed in Lukoil in one of the positions. They preferred not to get involved with Bogomol in the underworld, remembering how the famous thief in law “Shakro-Old” (aka Kakachia), who was killed in the vicinity of Berlin, ended his life. It is believed that the "godfathers" who control Lukoil were involved in the murder, since shortly before his unexpected death, "Shakro-old" quarreled with one of the leaders of Lukoil.
The leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs knew about the connections of the structures of Lukoil with the criminal world that controls the gasoline business. In particular, the former Interior Minister Kulikov wrote about this in a memo addressed to Chernomyrdin, but no decisions were made on this matter.
By the way, back in 1997, Lukoil vice-president Vitaly Schmidt died of coronary heart disease, whose death was later interpreted in the press as murder by poisoning. Schmidt was the author of the restructuring of the LUKoil offshore system, which was unprofitable for Alekperov and therefore was not carried out after Schmidt's death. Schmidt's relatives made accusations against Alekperov, Ralif Safin and other leaders of Lukoil in the Top Secret program on the NTV channel.
A couple of years later, the first deputy of Alekperov, Sergey Kukura, also suffered. He was kidnapped and then safely returned by unknown persons. At the same time, it turned out that for several years Lukoil's employees had been selling diluted gasoline through their network of gas stations. Only the state treasury, according to the most conservative estimates of the tax police, was damaged in the amount of 4.5 billion rubles.
In 2000, the Federal Tax Service of Russia announced the initiation of a criminal case against Alekperov and the chief accountant of Lukoil, Lyubov Khoba, on the fact of "hiding large funds from taxation." On the same day, Alekperov met with President Putin in the Kremlin. In the end, he was not charged. In August 2000, the arbitration court rejected most of the FSNP's claims against LUKOIL.
The fortune of Russian businessman Vagit Alekperov by March 2009 decreased from $14.3 billion in 2007 to $7.8 billion. In the world ranking of the richest people in the world, compiled by Forbes magazine in March 2009, Alekperov takes 57th place.
On April 5, 1993, the state concern Langepas-Urai-Kogalym-neft was transformed into the joint-stock company Oil Company Lukoil, with Alekperov as its president.
In 1995-1998 Alekperov was Chairman of the Supervisory Board, member of the Board of Trustees, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Imperial Bank.
In 1995 - 2000 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Petrocommerce Bank.
In 1996 - 2002 he was a member of the Board of Directors of CJSC Volga-Kama Oil Company.
In 2001-2004, he headed the board of the Association of Scientific and Technical Centers of NK LUKOIL.
In 2001-2006, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of OAO RITEK.
Since 2000 - Chairman of the Supervisory Board of LUKOIL International GmbH.
Since 2005, he has been a member of the government commission on the issues of the fuel and energy complex and the reproduction of the mineral resource base.
In April 1996, during the campaign for the presidential elections in the Russian Federation, Alekperov was a confidant of Russian President Boris Yeltsin in the Tyumen region.
In 2000, Alekperov joined the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP). Subsequently, he was re-elected to the board twice - in 2003 and 2006. In June 2006, Alekperov headed the Committee on Energy Security, Energy Efficiency and Development of the Fuel and Energy Complex established in the RSPP.
Alekperov - Doctor of Economics, full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, author of a number of books and scientific publications, including the monographs "Vertical Integrated Oil Companies of Russia: Methodology of Formation and Implementation" (1996) and "Oil of Russia: The View of a Top Manager" (2001 ).
Vagit Alekperov - twice laureate of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation, awarded four orders and eight medals, including the Order of the Badge of Honor (1986), Friendship (1996), the Order of Glory (for merits in the development of economic ties between Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation), the medal " For the development of mineral resources and the development of the oil and gas complex in Western Siberia", the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", IV degree (2005).