Aleksandr Skorobogatko
Aleksandr Ivanovich Skorobogatko () (born 15 September 1967) is a Ukrainian-Russian billionaire businessman and former deputy member in the State Duma, having represented the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (2003-2007) and United Russia (2007-2016). He has previously served as the Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Civil, Criminal, Arbitral and Procedural Law. As of 26 July 2022, his net worth is estimated at $ 2.8 billion. Early life Skorobogatko was born in Ukraine, Soviet Union in 1967 to a mining family. He graduated from the Slavyansk State Pedagogical Institute in 1994 with a degree in physical education, and then earned a master's degree in finance from Plekhanov Russian Academy in 1996. He was later awarded a degree in Law from the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences of the Russian Ministry of the Interior. Business career Skorobogatko, together with his partner Alexander Ponomarenko, launched a perfume manufacturing company and construction material business in the Crimea in the late 1980s. In 1996, he and Ponomarenko founded the Russian General Bank in Moscow. The bank survived the 1998 crisis and was ranked as a “top 100 bank” in Russia by Interfax In 2006, the bank was sold to Hungarian OTP Bank for $477