Alijan Ibragimov (also known as Alidjan or Alidzhon Ibragimov; 5 June 1953 – 3 February 2021) was a Kazakh oligarch of the Uyghur descent. He was born in

Fergana Fergana ( uz, Fargʻona/Фарғона, ), or Ferghana, is a district-level city and the capital of Fergana Region in eastern Uzbekistan. Fergana is about 420 km east of Tashkent, about 75 km west of Andijan, and less than 20 km fr ...

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, and was a member of a well-known circle of oligarchs in

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known as the "Trio." The "Trio" comprises Ibragimov and his business partners,

Alexander Mashkevich Alexander Antonovich Mashkevich ( he, אלכסנדר משקביץ; also transliterated Alexandr Mashkevic; russian: Александр Антонович Машкевич; born 23 February 1954) is an Israeli-Kazakh businessman and investor who ha ...

and

Patokh Chodiev Patokh Chodiev (russian: Фа́ттох Каюмович Шо́диев; ''Fáttoh Kayúmovich Shódiev''; born 15 April 1953) is a Belgian-Uzbek oligarch. He enriched himself in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, as he, Alexand ...

, active in the mining, oil & gas, and banking sectors in Kazakhstan. At the time of his death Ibragimov had dropped off of

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’ list of world billionaires. With his partners Chodiev and Mashkevich, Ibragimov was a major shareholder in

Eurasian National Resources Corporation Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation PLC (ENRC) was a public, Kazakhstan/Central African-focused, multinational leading diversified natural resources company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It had activities in integrated mining, proc ...

(ENRC), now one of the world's leading natural resources groups. ENRC, based in London, operates a number of metals assets in Kazakhstan and Africa, having acquired numerous mining operations in

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and

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. In 2009, ENRC generated a $1,462 million profit on sales of $13.8 billion. ENRC was floated on the

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in December 2007, with a market capitalisation on Admission of approximately £60.8 billion.

Assets

According to ''Forbes'' magazine in March 2019, Alidzhan Ibragimov's personal fortune was estimated at $2.3 billion. In 2007, he made $800 million in profit from his businesses. "In 418th place is 58-year-old Alijan Ibragimov with a fortune of $2.8 billion" in 2012, according to Forbes magazine. As of October 2020, the value of Alidzhan Ibragimov's assets was $900 million, making him the fourth-richest person in the Republic of Kazakhstan according to Forbes. He died from

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in Belgium on 3 February 2021, at age 67.

References

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