Black Biography Mikhail

The Observer first oligarch, Mikhail Cherny, demands that Mikhail Cherny return his debts from organizing a lottery with a ping-pong balls on Tashkent's streets before the reconstruction of the Soviet industrial mechanism, suits the richest man in Russia, Oleg Deripaska. Next year, the British court intends to arrange a legal competition between Deripaska and its mentor, who opened the path to wealth before him.

Black escaped increased attention to himself, emigrating to Israel in the year and falling out of the cage of the oligarchs of the time of Yeltsin and Putin. However, it is he who is the link between the "red directors of Soviet industry" and the Russian industrial magnates. Just like Deripaska, Black supported the businessmen Iskander Makhmudov and Vladimir Lizin, billionaires of the metals market, and Alexander Mashkevich, who earned his billions of minerals.

At the end of X, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the country's industry fell into decay, but Black turned out to be one of those people who managed to instill the Soviet industrial basis to the New Russia tree: at the beginning of the mi "Rusal", headed by Black, together with Berezovsky, Abramovich and Deripaska, confidently moved to become the largest aluminum company in the world.

Black was born in the year in Tashkent, in a Jewish family. According to him, Tashkent of those years was a rather "wild place." Residents of the city predominantly drank and fought. Returning from the army, he decided to become a businessman, despite the fact that the possession of an amount exceeding 10 thousand dollars was punishable in the USSR by the death penalty.

To begin with, he and his friends organized a street lottery, rotating drums with table tennis balls. Soon, businessmen earned about 30 thousand rubles a month. Business horizons have expanded when Black got the opportunity to travel throughout the country as a sports official. He began to supply watermelons to the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, but was squeezed out of the market by the local mafia.

Then Black combined his efforts with a certain Israeli, hoping to sell Russian honey to the west, however, when it turned out that instead of dollars he would receive tomato sauce for his honey, the future tycoon refused the deal. The interest from the first major Black transaction was its first million. To get it, the businessman went to Austria. I was stunned, ”recalls black.

In the year, Black, together with the Ukrainian American Sam Kislin, exported iron ore, coke and coal, importing LADA cars, sugar and food. A company founded by black and acidic, Transcommodities annually brought dollars. Coins and coal for Russian factories, the profit has increased to millions of dollars a year.

Black began to acquire enemies. Friends told Black: "We heard that they want to kill you. You must leave." Black emigrated to Israel, thus pulled away from aluminum wars raging in Russia. I am outside this business, but I have to get money from this sale, ”says Cherny. In the year, the campaign was deployed against black, which had the goal of compromising it.

The accusations scared the Israelis, employees of a special bureau established to verify the trustworthiness of Russians in Israel, and I understand them,” says Cherny. For five years, a special bureau listened to his telephone conversations, but nothing criminal was found. He was arrested in Switzerland, but was released the next day. He was accused of involvement in the actions of the mafia in South Africa, but the local secret services could only report that they did not know anything.

He was accused of killing the son of a Bulgarian minister. However, Bulgarians, according to Chernoy, told the Israelis that not a single relative of any minister was killed since the Ottoman Empire. Black turned out to be a hostage to the political war, begun by its enemies in Russia. Black says: "Deripaska panicked, having learned in the year that I was going to sell my share in the" russal "MDM Bank for $ 1 billion.

Then we met in London. I sold him my share under a contract, which involved the payment of value in three years. In the year in Vienna, when we met secretly, I told him that he was violating the conditions. Then he stopped approaching the phone. In January, we met in Kyiv again. Over the past years, Deripaska bought the shares of Abramovich and Berezovsky, using our common money.

If he adhered to our agreement, this would not have happened, and he would have paid me less. The deadline passed last March last year. He did not pay.Mikhail Cherny refuses to discuss whether Deripaska could be the initiator of the incriminating evidence campaign. But here is completely different. I immediately fell in love with Deripaska when I met him. He took him with him to Paris.

He showed him expensive hotels and women. He was young. A dynamic, successful student. I saw a reliable partner in him. I am not going to let this case on the brakes, ”says Cherny. Deripaska refutes these statements and interprets the terms of the contract in his own way. Black, sitting in one of the cafes in the old Jaffa, looks like a confident billionaire and a boxer who still loves the struggle.

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