Businessman Andrey Guryev: biography, photo

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

In the business environment, his surname is very well known. Over the long years of his career as an entrepreneur, Guryev Andrey has become a successful billionaire. Yes, and domestic media often turned to his person. And there were more than enough reasons. For example, the press reported that Andrei Guryev bought a luxurious five-story penthouse in England with an area of more than 2,000 square meters. Few can afford such a luxury. Journalists also wrote that a businessman in his work does not always comply with the norms of the law. So who is Andrey Guryev? An honest and successful entrepreneur or a businessman who believes that the end justifies any means? Let's take a closer look at this issue.

Biography

Guryev Andrey is a native of the city of Lobny near Moscow. 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 a matriculation certificate, young Andrey Guryev successfully passed the entrance exams to the State Institute of Physical Culture, from which he would receive a diploma in 1983. But fortwo years before that, the young man will serve in the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In parallel with this, Andrei will keep fit in the Dynamo sports society.

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In the mid-80s, the young man was actively involved in Komsomol work and after some time he held the position of secretary of the Komsomol of the capital city council of the Dynamo SO. Then Andrey Guryev, whose biography we are considering, is appointed to senior positions in the Komsomol organization of the Frunze District Committee of Moscow.

After the collapse of the Land of Soviets

In the early 90s, when the communist regime collapsed, the first cooperatives began to open, the owners of which turned out to be former Komsomol members and ideologists of the "bright future".

But Andrey Grigorievich Guryev created a structure that had no purpose to make a profit. The future businessman established the Law Order Voluntary Public Charitable Foundation, which provided material assistance to representatives of law enforcement agencies. Soon he finds a job in the commercial structure of MENATEP as a full-time expert in the information storage service. In this company, a graduate of the Institute of Physical Culture makes a good career: he rises to the position of deputy. head of the investment department of the bank. In the mid-90s, Guryev was in charge of affairs in the mining and chemical department of the RosProm company, which is structurally subordinate to MENATEP. In the second half of the 90s, Andrey Grigoryevich headed the department of direct investments and the department of mining and chemical production.

Apatite

At the beginning of the 2000s, Guryev, unexpectedly for everyone, took the chair of the head of the executive body of OJSC Apatit. It is known that this enterprise, which is part of PhosAgro, is developing several large deposits of apatite - nepheline ore. It is not known how much a block of shares in Apatit cost businessman Guryev. The above company MENATEP acted as the counterparty of the transaction.

According to unofficial data, Andrey Grigorievich bought back Apatit's securities for $200 million.

Illegal Stories

One way or another, but in 2008 a resonant case about the theft of Apatit securities, which belonged to the state, became public knowledge. The defendants in the case were Platon Lebedev and Mikhail Khodorkovsky. In the end, they went to jail, and Andrey Guryev was only one of the defendants in the case, and then they could not prove his guilt. In addition, he had immunity at that time, since he was a senator.

Some time later, the director of Apatit was charged with the fact that back in 1997, having violated the current legislation, with a minimum benefit for the enterprise, he made a deal to alienate the ANOF-2 mining and processing plant without the knowledge of the shareholders. Elista CJSC Gornokhimprom acted as a buyer. After this story surfaced, Andrey Guryev's photo began to appear frequently on the pages of the press.

But it's not all things with a minus sign, inwhom the businessman was spotted.

Thus, in 2008, an emergency occurred at one of the Apatit mines, as a result of which 12 people died. PhosAgro CEO Maxim Volkov and Andrey Guryev (businessman) were found guilty of the incident.

In addition, the chairman of the Board of Directors of Apatit was charged with illegal acts in the field of tax relations, they say, the entrepreneur used illegal schemes that significantly underestimated the amount of fiscal deductions to the budgets of all levels. Moreover, Guryev actively used them in the period from 2001 to 2005.

Senator's chair

In 2001, Andrey Grigoryevich became a parliamentarian in the Federation Council, representing the Murmansk region in the upper house of the legislature. Some time later, he received the position of assistant to the head of the committee in charge of agrarian and food policy and the fishery complex. Then Guryev became a member of the committee that de alt with the affairs of the North. For 12 years, the businessman worked within the walls of the upper house 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 business, and I think that my choice is correct. At the same time, I am grateful to my comrades in the ward, because work in the Federation Council has become another milestone in my biography,” Andrey Grigorievich emphasized.

After his parliamentary activities, he returned to PhosAgro, taking the position of assistant to the head of the Board of Directors.

Marital status

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

Another public outcry was caused by the information once indicated by Evgenia Guryeva in her income statement. The document featured an astronomical amount - 700 million rubles, while the financial condition of the spouse was estimated at only 15 million rubles. It is known that Evgenia is a member of the board of the Guryev Charitable Foundation. She has her share of shares in PhosAgro.

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