Mikhail Abyzov - a minister without a portfolio - carries out state and public activities. He is also known as a successful entrepreneur and manager. Abyzov is married. He has children: two sons and a daughter. His activities as an official are highly ambiguous. However, many analysts recognize his enterprise and success. He has a fairly high income, owns shares in large companies and is considered to be the richest official in the administrative state apparatus today. We will find out further what activities he carries out.
Mikhail Abyzov: biography
He was born on June 3, 1972. Mikhail Abyzov, whose nationality is Belarusian, studied at Moscow State University. Some sources indicate that he graduated from this university. However, at Moscow State University they say that he was expelled for academic failure from the 2nd year. He completed his studies at the Moscow Pedagogical University. Sholokhov (now MSGU) with a degree in mathematics. The career of the future politician began at the age of 14. Abyzov Mikhail then got a job as a laborer at the Minsk printing house, and then at the Belarus plant as a loader. As part of the student construction team of the local medical university, he traveled to Tyumen, where for the first time he was able to earn serious money. After some time, Mikhail Abyzov was engaged in retail trade. He sold mainly Turkish consumer goods on rented space in various department stores. In 1991, he was engaged in the import of alcoholic and food products from Bulgaria.
Active since 1993
Since this year, Mikhail Abyzov has held senior positions in several fuel and energy companies. He created CJSC "MMB GROUP". This enterprise closely cooperated with the Ministry of Agriculture. Such work was facilitated by the relationship with the deputy Starikov, who at that time was the deputy chairman of the agrarian committee. Abyzov Mikhail was his assistant. Starikov introduced him to Mukha, who at that moment was the governor of the Novosibirsk region. AOZT carried out intermediary activities as part of the settlement of issues on debts for the supply of raw materials. In those years, racketeering and raiding were widespread. In 1996, through a chain of various offsets, Mikhail Abyzov acquired a 19% stake in Novosibirskenergo. After an insignificant period of time, he already owned a controlling stake in securities. In November 1996, he became the general director of SLAVTEK. In June 1997, Abyzov joined the board of directors of Sibecobank. In December of the same year, he ran for parliament. However, the campaign was unsuccessful. The following year, 1998, Abyzov was appointed deputy chairman of the councildirectors of Novosibirskenergo. In the same year, he was elected a member of the board and head of the business projects and investment policy department of RAO UES. From May 1999 to August 2000, he was the chairman of the board of directors of Chelyabenergo. In the same period, the entrepreneur joined the management apparatus of Kuzbassenergo.
Work after 1999
When he entered RAO UES, Abyzov Mikhail Anatolyevich indicated that he was the 1st deputy general director of a certain Federal Financial Industrial Group under the Administration of the head of the country. But such a structure did not exist, it is not listed in the registers. In RAO "UES" his activities were connected with the fight against debts and non-payments. In 1999, Abyzov Mikhail Anatolyevich participated in the election campaign of Abramovich to the deputies of Chukotka. From the beginning of 2002, he joined the board of directors of JSC FGC UES. In the period from 2003 to 2005, he chaired the RCC. Abyzov was also a member of the Board of Directors:
- Since 2004 - in JSC "OGK-5".
- Since December 2004 - in JSC "TGC-9".
Since July 2005, Abyzov took over as general director of Kuzbassrazrezugol LLC. In September of the following year, management was transferred to UMMC-Holding. The latter was led by Kozitsyn. Until June 2007, Abyzov remained a member of the board of directors of Kuzbassrazrezugol. For 6 years (from 2006 to 2012) he chaired the RU-COM business group. Hewas also on the board of directors:
- From July 2007 to January 2012 - at E4 Group OJSC.
- From August 2007 to January 2011 - at Mostotrest OJSC.
Mikhail Abyzov: "Open government"
Since January 18, 2012, he was appointed Advisor to the President. Many are interested - Abyzov Mikhail Anatolyevich - Minister of what? In his new post, he was responsible for organizing the activities of the commission. She, in turn, coordinated the work of the Open Government. In addition, he was a member of the Public Committee that supported the activities of President Medvedev. Since 2010, Abyzov Mikhail Anatolyevich has been a member of the administrative apparatus of the RSPP.
Income
Mikhail Abyzov is in 76th place in the Forbes ranking. His fortune is estimated at $1.3 billion. He is considered the richest minister of the Medvedev government. He owns the E4 Group, in which he consolidated many assets previously owned by RAO UES. The shares of Novosibirskenergo, PowerFuel, the SibirEnergo energy sales holding, several coal mines, and the Kopitaniya agricultural holding are also owned by Abyzov Mikhail Anatolyevich. His wife Ekaterina is also engaged in business. The family owns the restaurants Isola Pinocchio and The Apartment. They are probably led by the spouse.
Novosibirskenergo case
In 2000law enforcement agencies were interested in interactions between ORTEK and the Novosibirsk region. They initiated criminal proceedings against the then governor Mukha. Mikhail Abyzov, who at that time was already in the position of deputy chairman of the board of RAO UES, appeared in the case as a witness. In this regard, there was an assumption that the proceedings with Novosibirskenergo were initiated by regional industrialists and bosses who suffered losses as a result of the measures taken by him to eliminate the crisis of energy non-payments. According to Melamed, whose investment company owned a large stake in Novosibirskenergo, Abyzov withdrew from the participants in 2001. This was due to the fact that he, being a top manager, experienced a "conflict of interest." Around the same time, a large stake in Novosibirskenergo, which belonged to ORTEK, was divided and changed owners. At the end of 2001, the case against Mukha was terminated under an amnesty. Another, but just as short-lived, was the case, also connected with Novosibirskenergo. It was launched in 2003. Then the company's management was accused of underestimating the amount of electricity transmitted through the networks to Novosibirskoblenergo. Because of this, the state organization suffered, according to the investigation, a loss of 72 million rubles. Several searches were carried out at the Novosibirskenergo enterprise. Until now, it is not known what kind of documents the investigators were looking for on the servers and in the company's safes. A year later, in the fall of 2004, the case wasclosed due to lack of staff.
Conflict between OGK-2 and E4
It originated at the beginning of 2009. OGK-2 accused E4 of failing to fulfill its obligations under the contract for the construction of 2 steam-gas units of the Stavropolskaya GRES. In this regard, the company refused to return the transferred advance. To this, E4 said that construction was not being carried out at the request of OGK-2, and they could return part of the prepayment. As it turned out, the managers of Gazprom (which controls OGK-2) really planned to move the construction of one of the blocks to Moscow. Abyzov, in turn, was interested in reaching a compromise for further cooperation. OGK-2 was also ready to resolve the conflict. The head of the Ministry of Energy, Shmatko, took part in resolving the situation. He sent a letter to Deputy Prime Minister Sechin, where he spoke about the need to return most of the advance.
Debt to E4
In autumn, the Group's employees presented Abyzov, who by that time had declared several apartments in Italy, Russia and the UK, with a demand to return the accumulated wage arrears, the amount of which was already more than 100 million rubles. According to members of the initiative committee, he continues to participate in the management of E4, thus violating the law, which prohibits officials from carrying out commercial activities. At the same time, according to them, Abyzov directs the profit from the work of the Group to meet personal needs, not caring about the pre-bankrupt state of the engineering holding. As stated by Ivanov - executivedirector of the Interregional Public Anti-Corruption Movement, a statesman actively puts forward ideas to combat corruption, while his own income requires explanation. Members of the association asked to check the activities of Abyzov and to reveal the facts of violation of the law on his part.
American Citizenship
It was discovered by bloggers in 2015. As they note, both Abyzov himself and his relatives have American citizenship. On the net you can find copies of US passports of family members who were born and live in America. In this regard, bloggers are asking which country the Russian official will defend the interests of. The presence of a US passport clearly indicates his second citizenship, which in no way can fit into the political activities of the Russian Federation.
