The name of Roman Abramovich is in the spotlight due to its close ties and complicity with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. In addition, that relationship and status as an oligarch has caused his life to suffer a radical change due to the sanctions imposed by the European Union and the United Kingdomincluding the obligation to leave the country, to the point of having to sell Chelseafootball club that he owned, or the freezing of all its assets on European soil.
However, his life did not start in the best way after being orphaned at the age of threewhere your motherIrina, died of blood poisoning when he was one year old while his father died two years later in a crane accident. In addition, Abramovich came from a humble and hard-working family, which was in charge of granting him a education in the Russian region of Komi after the death of his parents.
Next, at the age of 16 he dropped out of school to work as a mechanic, while doing military service in the Red Army. Similarly, she began invest in other sectors, such as the sale of toys or perfumeswhere he increased his wealth, which allowed him to have more chances of associating with the Kremlin.
How did your relationship with the Russian government begin?
The collapse of the Soviet Union led Abramovich to participate in the “aluminum wars”, in which great personalities and Russian businessmen they had accumulated great fortunes and political power during the failure of the Soviet system. Thus, At the age of 20, he received a stroke of luck, by getting hold of the Sibneft oil company servicesthrough an auction of some $250 million and allegedly riggedas recognized by British justice in 2012.
His intervention and relationship with the Kremlin began with Russian President Boris Yeltsinwho resigned in 1999, to relegate his position in the figure of Vladimir Putin. Later, Abramovich and the leader of the Kremlin close a good relationship, to the point of being considered one of the people most trusted by the presidenttranslated in the figure of oligarch, since they had other personalities in the country and with good complicity with Putin.
Thus, in 2000, he was elected governor of the Chukotka regionlocated in the extreme northeast of Russia, where he served him for eight years to invest his own fortune in social and public services. One of those most outstanding movements It was the purchase of Chelsea, one of the most emblematic and famous clubs in London, for a value of about 140 million pounds.
“I’m sure people will focus on me for three or four days, but it will pass. They will forget who I am, and I like that,” the Russian billionaire said when he bought the club. His fortune translates into large propertieslike the 15-bedroom mansion in Kensington Palace Gardens, apartments in Chelsea, a ranch in Colorado, yachts or vacation homes in luxurious places, such as the French Riviera or Cote d’Azur.