Igor Rotenberg (Russian: Ротенберг, Игорь Аркадьевич born 9 September 1974)[1] is a Russian billionaire businessman, and the oldest son and heir to
Arkady Rotenberg,[2] Russian billionaire businessman and co-owner with brother Boris Rotenberg, of the
SGM (Stroygazmontazh) group.[3] The Rotenbergs are closely associated with
Vladimir Putin.[4] In October 2018, Igor Rotenberg's wealth was estimated to be $1.1 billion.[5][6] Igor Rotenberg has been under
United States sanctions since 6 April 2018.[2][7][8]
Igor is the majority shareholder in Gazprom Drilling.[9]
From 2002 to 2003, he was the Deputy Head of the Department of Property of the Fuel and Energy Complex in the Ministry of Property of Russia which later became
Federal Agency for State Property Management in 2004.[10]
From 2003 to 2004, he was the Head of the Department of Transport and Telecommunications Property for the Property of Russia.[10]
From 2004 to 2005, he was the Vice-President of
Russian Railways OJSC and acted as the Head of the Department of Property Management and Organizational Structures.[10]
Since 2006, he is the owner and the chairman of the board of directors of the Moscow-based NPV Engineering Group.[10][13][a]
Since 2008, he is the Vice-President of the design bureau CB "
Northern Sea Route" (Russian: конструкторское бюро ЦБ "Северный морской путь" (Севморпуть)).[10]
Since 2010, he is the chairman of the board of directors of
Mosenergo Heat and Power Company.[10]
Since 2011, he is the chairman of the board of directors of
Gazprom Burenie LLC (Burgaz).[10]
In 2015, Arkady Rotenberg sold his son Igor Rotenberg a number of assets including up to 79% of Gazprom Drilling (Bureniye),[15] 28% of the road construction company Mostotrest,[16][b] and 33.3% of
Jersey-based TPS Real Estate Holdings Ltd.[19][20]Alexander Ponomarenko and
Aleksandr Skorobogatko own 66.6% of TPC Real Estates Holdings.[19][21][22]
It was reported that Arkady Rotenberg made this move after being placed on the
U.S. sanctions list.[23]
In 2015, OJCS TPS Real Estate (Russian: ОАО "ТПС недвижимость") is one of the largest commercial real estate developers in Russia that manages several shopping centers in Russia and
Ukraine.[20] It is 100% owned by TPS Real Estate Holding Ltd.[20] It owns the
Krasnodar Gallery (Russian: ТРЦ "Галерея Краснодар"),
Sochi's Moremoll (Russian: ТРЦ "Моремолл"), and Kiev's Ocean Plaza (Russian: ТРЦ "Ocean Plaza"). It is building the
Novosibirsk Gallery (Russian: ТРЦ "Галерея Новосибирск") and Moscow's
Slavyansky Boulevard metro station and
Polezhayevskaya metro station.[20] At the end of 2016, TPS Real Estate managed 12 shopping center with a total area of over 2 million square meters.[20]
In 2016, Igor Rotenberg was at the center of a controversy surrounding
Platon (
Russian: ПЛАТОН), a company he half-owns, and alleged discrepancies in its contracts with the federal road agency,
Rosavtodor.[24] Operated by RT Invest, the Platon toll system electronically tracks and charges tolls to trucks over 12 tons on Russian Federal roads.[25] With a 25% ownership by Rotenberg and using satellite tracking data, ScanEx (Russian: ООО "ГК Сканэкс"), a subsidiary of RT Invest, is developing an electronic map of the 50,000 km (31,000 mi) of Russian federal roads in order to track vehicles for payment to Platon.[26][c] Approved on 29 September 2014 by Roman Starovoyt (Russian: Роман Старовойт), who is the head of Rosavtodor, and Alexander Sovetnikov (Russian: Александр Советников), who is the director of RT – Invest Transport Systems (RTITS) (Russian: "РТ-Инвест Транспортные системы"), Rotenberg, through his companies,[d] is guaranteed to receive from the state budget a very large portion of the 10.6 billion rubles indexed to inflation each year without VAT (4.98 billion rubles paid semi-annually) from 15 November 2015, to 29 September 2027, which is paid to the Planton & RT Invest partnership.[25] After this was revealed, a
large strike across Russia by truck drivers occurred on Russian federal highways beginning November 2015.[27] On 28 November 2015,
Anton Nosik alleged that the state would be missing large sums of money from the
Avtodor GC (
Russian: ГК «Автодор») tolls between the 15th km (Businovskaya intersection on the Moscow Ring Road) to the 58th km (Solnechnogorsk) along
M11, which had been applied as maintenance fees not only to truck drivers but to all drivers and were not to be paid until the M11 project was completed, but were being charged to all motorists beginning on 23 November 2015.[28][29] He alleged that the missing money from the budgeted funds for the construction of the M11 as well as both the future moneys from Avtodor GC and the PLATON systems had been diverted to the Rotenburgs' pockets through real estate money laundering investments in Miami.[28] Instead of the expected total revenues from Platon of 20 to 40 billion rubles, the actual revenues were 25% or less than those figures.[30]
On 29 March 2018, Igor sold his 33.3% stake in TPS Real Estate Holdings for $1 billion to his sister Liliya Rotenberg (Russian: Лилия Аркадьевичнa Ротенберг born 17 April 1978).[6][19][31]
^In 2015 to reduce Russia's dependence of imports of antimony trioxide, the NPV Engineering Group of Moscow began building a plant for the production of
antimony trioxide in
Degtyarsk,
Sverdlovsk.[14]
^Competitors of ScanEx are Sovzond (Russian: "Совзонд"), Data East (Russian: "Дата Ист"), and others.[26]
^Igor Rotenberg owns RTITS and co-owns RT-Invest with Andrey Shipelov's (Russian: Андрей Шипелов) Tsaritsyn Capital (Russian: ООО "Царицын Капитал") and
Rostec (Russian: "Ростех").[26]
^"Недвижимое имущество как объект гражданских прав" [Real estate as an object of civil rights]. Kaliningrad Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (in Russian). 1 January 2005. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
^Лукина, Ольга (Lukina, Olga); Галактионова, Александра (Galaktionova, Alexandra); Мироненко, Петр (Mironenko, Petr).
"«Пешком до Шереметьево»: чем обернулся ввод платы на трассе М11 203" ["Walking distance to Sheremetyevo": what has happened with the introduction of the board on the M11 highway]. РБК (RBC) (in Russian). Archived from
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