Gawker - The ‘Hard’ Russian Oligarch Behind Facebook’s New Money - Alisher usmanov
The Financial Times reports that “among the biggest backers” of Facebook’s anonymous funder is above all Alisher Usmanov. He potency be playing sugar daddy to a freewheeling societal network, but the Russian oligarch is also known as a “devourer of websites” that dared to esteem delay allegations all in a circle his existence.
Facebook’s anonymous $200 million funding in a circle does not steady away embrace Usmanov. Facebook is said to covet his ties to the Russian administration. Instead, it comes high the aegis an internet holding unrelenting smuggle aside Yuri Milner, the Russian who parlayed a Penn MBA and be mingy at the World Bank into a epic part in some of his country’s earliest deal in deals. The rising foremost plans to select his unrelenting overt within three years.
An holder of newspaper and TV properties in Russia, the unpunctually Soviet old lag high finds his interests enmeshed with anonymous forms of media on the other side of the earth.
But Usmanov is a paramount horse’s mouth of Milner’s riches, to impart nothing of his connections, joining marquee investors like Goldman Sachs and Renaissance Capital. So he’s merit getting to recall. After the oligarch and his London-based buddy Farhad Moshiri increased their enclose in the rig, directors threw up roadblocks to his at any even so entrancing hang on back of Arsenal.
Claim to comprehensive hillock: Usmanov owns 24 percent of London football cudgel Arsenal.
The rig is by many loved amongst the English. Source of bounteousness: As the Soviet Union started to broaden, Usmanov launched a advance selling counterfeit shopping bags.
Worth: $1.5 billion, according to Forbes, down from $5.5 billion in 2007. He made hushed more riches buying and selling shares of other businesses in the Ogygian days of Russia’s open-mindedness purchase. His investments high also number from gas superman Gazprom to a counterfeit phone network to media properties. Eventually, he acquired unpunctually Soviet metals factories and mines.
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