Viktor Filippovich RASHNIKOV

Owner, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Committee for Strategic Planning of the Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works

Associated entities: Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK)

Associated entities: Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK)

Function: Leading businessperson. Owner, chairman of the Board of Directors and chairman of the Committee for Strategic Planning of the Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK).

Viktor Rashnikov is a leading Russian businessperson who is owner and chairman of the Board of Directors of the Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) company. MMK is one of Russia’s largest taxpayers. The tax burden on the company increased lately, resulting in considerably higher proceeds to the Russian state budget. Viktor Rashnikov also receives support from the Russian Government and decision-makers. Moreover, he was among the leading Russian businesspersons who participated in the congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in Mar 2023, where the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin gave a speech and urged billionaires to put “patriotism before profit”. He is therefore a leading businessperson operating in Russia and a businessperson involved in economic sectors providing a substantial source of revenue to, and benefitting from the Government of the Russian Federation, which is responsible for the annexation of Crimea and the destabilisation of Ukraine.

Associated entities: Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK)

Associated entities: Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK)

Entités associées: Magnitogorsk Iron & SteelWorks (MMK). Viktor Rashnikov est un homme d’affaires russe influent qui est propriétaire et président du conseil d’administration de l’entreprise Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK). MMK est l’un des plus grands contribuables de la Russie. La charge fiscale pesant sur l’entreprise a récemment augmenté, ce qui a entraîné une hausse considérable des recettes pour le budget de l’État russe. Viktor Rashnikov reçoit également un soutien du gouvernement russe et des décideurs russes. Par ailleurs, il a figuré parmi les femmes et hommes d’affaires russes influents qui ont participé au congrès de l’Union russe des industriels et des entrepreneurs en mars 2023, au cours duquel le président de la Fédération de Russie Vladimir Poutine a prononcé un discours et a exhorté les milliardaires à faire passer “le patriotisme avant le profit”. Il est donc un homme d’affaires influent exerçant des activités en Russie ainsi qu’un homme d’affaires intervenant dans des secteurs économiques constituant une source substantielle de revenus pour le gouvernement de la Fédération de Russie, qui est responsable de l’annexion de la Crimée et de la déstabilisation de l’Ukraine, et tirant avantage de ce gouvernement.

Transport sanctions: ships owned, controlled, chartered or operated by the individual are prohibited from entering a port in the UK; may be given a movement or a port entry direction, can be detained, and will be refused permission to register on the UK Ship Register or have its existing registration terminated. An aircraft owned, chartered or operated by the individual is prohibited from overflying or landing in the UK, may be given a movement direction, can be detained or moved to a specified airport, and will be refused permission to register on the CAA Aircraft Register or have its existing registration terminated. Prohibition of technical assistance relating to aircraft and ships: a prohibition on the provision of technical assistance relating to aircraft or ships will prevent a person from directly or indirectly providing technical assistance to, or for the benefit of, the designated person, where that technical assistance relates to an aircraft or ship. The transport sanctions were imposed on 17/07/2023.

Entités associées : Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK)

Owner, Chair of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Committee for Strategic Planning of the Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK)

Metallurgical magnate, financed the election campaign of the governor of the Chelyabinsk Oblast Alexei Teksler, former deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk Oblast from the United Russia party

Mentioned in 2018 CAATSA report on Russian oligarchs

Billionare who made fortune with Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works