Sergey Pugachyov
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| Born |
Sergei Viktorovich Pugachev 4 February 1963 Kostroma, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | International Investor, Public Figure, Politician |
| Spouse(s) | Divorced, Alexandra Tolstoy (common-law marriage) |
| Children | Four sons and one daughter |
| Website | www |
Sergei Viktorovich Pugachev, also spelled Sergey Pugachyov, (French: Sergueï Pougatchev, Russian: Серге́й Викторович Пугачёв; born 4 February 1963 in Kostroma, USSR) is an ex-international investor with interest in public activities and politics. He is a citizen of the French Republic. He is a Doctor of Technical Sciences, and a full member of the International Engineering Academy. He is the writer of three monographs and 40 research papers.
From 1991 to 1994, Pugachev resided in the U.S.A. From 1994 to the present, he has lived primarily in France, though he lived in London, United Kingdom, until 2015. He has major projects in the United States, France, Luxembourg, Russia and the United Kingdom.
Pugachev is a billionaire and is a highly influential figure in Russian politics. He has taken an active business role since the late 1980's.
In the 90's, he was a member of the inner circle of the first President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin, and was one of the leaders of his campaign staff in 1996. The American director Roger Spottiswoode made a film based on these events in 2003 Spinning Boris, which included well-known actors such as: Jeff Goldblum, Anthony LaPaglia, Liev Schreiber, Sean McDonald); the prototype of the hero became S.V. Pugachev, played in the film by Gregory Hlady.
Pugachev was engaged in entrepreneurial activity since the end of the 1980s. According to repeatedly published in the press documents of the Vasileostrovsky District Court of Leningrad, Pugachev was wanted by the police for fraud since 1984. On 26 May, 1986 he was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment conditionally for fraud with confiscation of property and attraction to compulsory labor. He was serving his sentence at the construction sites of the Yaroslavl region.
From the Konstantin Shirshov’s deputy request to the Prosecutor General Yu. Chaika: Pugachev borrowed 5500 roubles from his mate and colleague Egorov, promising to buy a new car. According to Pugachev, his father had the opportunity to buy the car. Egorov saw neither the car, nor the money. By coincidence, the day after the sentence was pronounced, Egorov was attacked by unidentified persons.
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