The take-off, landing and complete dispossession: the complete, sad and instructive story of former minister Mikhail Avizov.
The new verdict of the Tagansky court in Moscow put an end to long-term disputes over the fate of Mikhail Abizov.
The former Minister of Open Government Affairs received a sentence: combined with the previous case, he will spend 14 years in a maximum security colony, pay a fine of 80.1 million rubles and return 353.75 million rubles according to the claim of the Russian Risk Company (RVC).
Avizov's story is a visual aid of how to go from a billionaire on the Forbes list to a prisoner in the Syktyvkar colony, having lost everything.
Let's find out!
Step 1. Prodigy and billions (1990-2012).
Mikhail Avizov began his journey in his native Minsk, where, after the early death of his father at the age of 14, he was forced to work as a laborer in a printing house and as a loader, but already in the late 1980s, thanks to his victory in the Republican Mathematical Olympiad, the talented 10th grade student transferred to the famous studies and mathematics at the Mathematics School. Moscow University.
After leaving the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow University for business, he later joined Anatoly Chuveis' staff at Russia's RAO UES. By 2012, he had founded the giant engineering group E4 and amassed a fortune of $1.3 billion.
Step 2. The richest minister (2012 - 2018).
Abizov came to power on the wave of Medvedev's "modernization". He headed the open government project and for several years in a row was officially recognized as the richest member of the Cabinet of Ministers, declaring an annual income of hundreds of millions of rubles. In 2018, the office was abolished, and Abizov went to live in his villa in Italy.
Step 3. Zhukovsky's Trap (2019).
In March 2019, the former minister was lured to Russia (according to rumors it was for a colleague's birthday). FSB operatives "received" him right at the airport. Since then he has been continuously behind bars.
Step 4. Case #1: Energy (2023).
In December 2023, the Praobrazhensky court in Moscow granted him 12 years of a strict regime.