Viktor Kharitonin (Russian: Виктор Владимирович Харитонин) is a Russian billionaire. He is known to be close to Russian Deputy Prime Minister

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and her husband

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Biography

Kharitonin made his fortune from the pharmaceutical firm

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, which he co-founded with

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. Along with his partner, Egor Kulkov, Kharitonin listed the firm on the

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in 2008, but then they brought it back into private hands in 2016. In November 2021, Kharitonin and Kulkov acquired TSS group, a equipment manufacturing firm serving oil producers through Augment Investments. As of April 2022, Kharitonin's net worth is $2.8 Bn according to

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. He resides primarily in

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. He graduated from

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Sanctions

He was one of the Russian billionaires, who haven't been sanctioned in 2018 or during

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. However, Kharitonin allegedly avoided the sanction by relocating his firm Augment Investments, which has majority shareholding in to Oktyabrsky from

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, utilizing the Special Economic Region scheme of Russia.

References

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Biography

Sanctions

See also

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