Businessman Guriev Andrey: biography, photo

In the business environment, his last name is very well known. Over the long years of the entrepreneur's career, Andrei Guryev turned into a successful billionaire. Yes, and the domestic media often turned to his person. And the reasons were more than enough. For example, the press reported that Guriev Andrew bought in England, a luxurious penthouse with a height of five floors and an area of more than 2,000 square meters. Such a luxury can afford a unit. Journalists also wrote that the businessman does not always observe the norms of the law in his work. So who is Andrei Guryev? An honest and successful entrepreneur or businessman who believes that the end justifies any means? Let's consider this issue in more detail.

Biographical information

Guryev Andrey - a native of the Moscow region of Lobnya. He was born on March 24, 1960.

As a child, the future senator showed interest in sports, and it was with him that he linked his future career. Having received the certificate of maturity, young Guriev Andrey successfully passed the entrance exams to the State Institute of Physical Culture, the diploma of which he will receive in 1983. But two years before that, the young man will serve in the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In parallel, Andrei will maintain his physical fitness in the sports society Dynamo.

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In the mid-80s, the young man is actively involved in the Komsomol work and after a while he holds the post of secretary of the Komsomol of the city council of the city of Dinamo. Then Andrei Guriev, whose biography we are considering, is appointed to the leading positions in the Komsomol organization of the Frunzensky District Committee of Moscow.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union

In the early 90's, when the communist regime collapsed, the first cooperatives began to open, the former komsomogists and ideologists of the "bright future" were found to be their owners.

But Andrei Grigoryevich Guriev created a structure that did not have the goal of making a profit. The future businessman established the Voluntary Public Charitable Foundation "Law and Order", which provided material assistance to representatives of law enforcement agencies. Soon he is employed in the commercial structure of MENATEP as a staff expert of the information storage service. In this company, a graduate of the Institute of Physical Culture makes a good career: he attains the post of deputy. Head of investment management of the bank. In the mid-90's, Guriev is in charge of the mining and chemical department of RosProm, which is structurally subordinate to MENATEP. In the second half of the 90s, Andrei Grigorievich headed the Department of Direct Investments and the Department of Mining and Chemical Production.

"Apatite"

At the beginning of the zero Guriev unexpectedly for all, the chair of the executive body of OJSC Apatit took over. It is known that this enterprise, part of the structure of "PhosAgro", is developing several large deposits of apatite - nepheline ore. The amount of money Apatit shares to the businessman Guriev is unknown. As the counterparty of the transaction, the above-mentioned MENATEP company acted.

According to unofficial data, Andrei Grigoryevich bought out securities of Apatit for $ 200 million.

Stories with wrongful bias

Anyway, in 2008, a resonant case was filed with the public about the theft of the securities of Apatit, which belonged to the state. The defendants in the case were Platon Lebedev and Mikhail Khodorkovsky. In the end, they also went to jail, and Andrei Guriev was only one of the defendants of the case, and to prove his guilt could not then. Moreover, at that time he was inviolable, because he was a senator.

Some time later, the director of Apatit was charged that in 1997, having violated the current legislation, he made a deal with the minimal benefit to the enterprise without the shareholders' knowledge of alienating the ore-dressing factory ANOF-2. As a buyer, Elistin CJSC Gornokhimprom acted. After this story surfaced, Andrei Guriev's photo began to appear frequently in the press.

But this is not all business with a minus sign in which a businessman was seen.

So, in 2008, an emergency situation occurred at one of the Apatit mines, as a result of which 12 people died. FoagAgro CEO Maxim Volkov and Andrei Guriev (businessman) were the culprits of the accident.

In addition, the chairman of the SD Apatit was charged with unlawful acts in the sphere of tax relations, they say, the businessman used illegal schemes that significantly underestimated the size of fiscal allocations to budgets of all levels. And Guriev actively used them in the period from 2001 to 2005.

Senator's chair

In 2001 Andrei Grigorievich became a parliamentarian in the SovFede, representing the Murmansk Region in the upper house of the legislative body. After some time, he received the post of assistant to the head of the committee, responsible for the agrarian-food policy and fisheries complex. Then Guriev became a member of the committee, which dealt with the affairs of the North. For 12 years, the businessman worked in the upper chamber of the Russian parliament and then decided to end his parliamentary career. According to him, this step was not easy for him, he thought about it for a long time. "I choose a business, and I think that my choice is correct. At the same time, I am grateful to my colleagues in the ward, because the work in the Federation Council has become another milestone in my biography, "Andrei Grigorievich stressed.

After the deputy activity, he again returned to FosAgro, taking up the post of assistant to the head of the Board of Directors.

Family status

And is Andrei Guriev happy in his personal life? The businessman's family is his wife and two children: daughter Yulia and son Andrey. The latter, by the way, was appointed CEO of PhosAgro. And yet the businessman tries to keep secret information about his personal life. Yes, one can say without exaggeration that an exemplary family man is Andrei Guryev. The wife of billionaire Eugene met with the ex-senator at school. After graduation she became a student of the Moscow Aviation Institute (specialty - design and production of radio equipment).

The next public resonance was caused by the information once indicated by Yevgenia Gurieva in the income declaration. The document featured an astronomical sum of 700 million rubles, while the financial condition of the spouse was estimated at only 15 million rubles. It is known that Eugene is a member of the board of the charity fund of the Gurievs. In "FosAgro" she has her share of shares.

The businessman himself was awarded the Order of the Orthodox Church, the Order of Honor and the signs of "Miner's Glory."