Biography
Oligarch, crumbling yachts and luxurious cars. Old Opponent Vladimir Putin. Speaker of the speaker of the Israeli Parliament. Large father. Man in absentia sentenced to life imprisonment. All this is Leonid Nevzlin.Childhood and youth
Oligarch was born in the family of Moscow intellectuals in 1959. Mother Leonida Irina Markovna taught schoolchildren to Russian. Father Boris Iosifovich - an engineer for servicing petrochemical installations. Family photos Businessman repeatedly laid out on the Internet.
Nevzlin grew by an excellent student, graduated from the Golden Medal, the Gubkin Institute, where he went in the footsteps of his father, - with a red diploma. Leonid Borisovich and one more higher education: At the beginning of the business biography, a man got a crust of Plekhanov Institute with a degree in Management and Marketing.
In the first half of the 80s of the 20th century, Nevzlin worked as a programmer in the foreign trade association "Zarubezhgeology". In 1987, Leonid became friends with Mikhail Khodorkovsky, at that time the head of the Center for Scientific and Technical Creativity at the district of Komsomol Frunzensky district of Moscow.
Business
From 1990 to 1997, Leonid Borisovich, along with Khodorkovsky, led the various structures of the Bank "Menatep" and Joint-Stock Company Yukos. Both companies resorted to "tax optimization" using loopholes in Russian legislation. In 2009, the state of the businessman was assessed in the amount of $ 1.2 to 2 billion.
In the summer of 2003, Khodorkovsky and Nevzlin were caused to the prosecutor's office for the testimony in the criminal case of another co-owner of Yukos Platon Lebedev. Opponents of the Russian authorities argue that the interest of the investigation to the oil company provoked support for the Khodorkovsky Russian opposition. Unlike Mikhail Borisovich, Leonid Borisovich did not wait for the arrest and was emergency to go to Israel, allegedly for writing the dissertation.
On charges of 2004, due to the financial fraud, Nevzlin, the Russian budget was launched 27 million rubles. However, in 2008, the Moscow City Court recognized the businessman guilty not only in economic crimes, but also in the organization of registered murders and sentenced Leonid Borisovich to life imprisonment.
Over the past time, Russian courts of various instances confirm the validity of the sentence and add new items to charges, and the Israeli authorities still refuse to extradite the oligarch.
Nevzlin's activities in Russia were not limited to business. Leonid Borisovich headed the Russian Jewish Congress and the Public Council at the RGU, engaged in charity, was part of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.
Personal life
Unlike parents, in October 2008, Golden Wedding, Leonid Borisovich married and divorced many times. For the first time, the future businessman concluded legitimate marriage, while still a student of the petrochemical institute. The wife named Anna gave birth to Leonid's eldest daughter Iru.
Now Irina Nevzlin is married to the speaker of the Israeli parliament by Julia Edelstein, the son of the Kostroma priest of the Russian Orthodox Church of Yuri Edelstein, the brother of the Russian philologist Mikhail Edelstein. Time older than a daytime.
The next daughter Leonid Borisovich Marina was born in 1983 from the spouse of Tatiana Arbenina. Subsequently, the wife of the head of the Russian Jewish Congress was fascinated by Orthodoxy, and the paths of the spouses were separated, and Nevzlin entered into romantic relations with a student MGIMO Tatyana Ceshinsky.
By moving to Israel, the former co-owner of Yukos married Oles Kantor, the widow of the director of the Ugra Bank, who gave birth to a twins businessman. In 2012, on the pages of the online publication "Gazeta.Ru", Bozhni Roma claimed that the Nevzlin has five children (all daughters).
In the late 10s of the 21st century, Leonid Borisovich's personal life made another turn. In October 2017, Nevzlin married Tatiana Greenberg. Celebrations on the occasion of marriage visited the former partner of Leonid Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Leonid Nevzlin now
In April 2019, Nevzlin said that he was interrupted by Scripture in Facebook and Twitter, because he considers it hopeless to discuss with people who are now at the helm of Russia. A citizen of Israel called "Gordy Jew and a man of Russian culture."
On the eve of the 60th anniversary, in September 2019, Leonid Borisovich gave an interview with the Internet project "And to talk." In a conversation with Irina Shikhman, a runaway oligarch suggested that the cause of the death of Boris Berezovsky was suicide, and said that he was disappointed in any power. Nevzlin is not going to run into the Knesset and allows that his son-in-law may take the presidency or the Israel Prime Minister.