Nikolai Tsvetkov (born 1960) is a
Russian oligarch, the founder and president of
Nikoil Financial. , with a wealth of $1.8 billion, he was the world's
397th-richest person.
He is a graduate of the
Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy. As an army officer, he served in Tambov, Moscow, and Russia's far east and fought in Afghanistan. Tsvetkov attained the rank of lieutenant colonel, before he retired, founding the brokerage firm Brokinvest. His obscure company became the investment and financial adviser to
Lukoil
The PJSC Lukoil Oil Company ( stylized as LUKOIL or ЛУКОЙЛ in Cyrillic script) is a Russian multinational energy corporation headquartered in Moscow, specializing in the business of extraction, production, transport, and sale of petrol ...
(then a state-controlled concern) by offering a co-ownership to its president
Vagit Alekperov,
and profited immensely from the voucher privatization scheme of Russia's state-owned companies in the mid-1990s.
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Living people
1959 births
Russian billionaires
Soviet Army officers
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