Khotin, Alexey Yuryevich

Alexey Khotin was born on May 21, 1974 in Minsk ( Belarusian SSR ). In 1991 he graduated from the Minsk Suvorov Military School , in 1997 - from the G.V. Plekhanov Russian University of Economics .

Alexey Khotin does business with his father, Yuri Khotin. Alexey Khotin is married, he has two children ^[2] .

Alexey Khotin has the title of master of sports in swimming . He sponsors several sports organizations ^[3] , such as the International Sambo Federation , the All-Russian Federation of Practical Shooting , the Dynamo Futsal Club and the Night Hockey League .

The newspaper Vedomosti , which conducted research on Khotin’s businesses, notes that the success of the Khotin family’s business is facilitated by their many connections at the highest levels of Russian power. The newspaper also indicates that the Khotinykh business relies heavily on credit money, and that members of the Khotinykh family refuse to communicate with the press ^[4] .

Khotin and his father own, according to the press, about 30 shopping and office centers in Moscow with a total area of ​​1.8 million m² ^[5] - for example, the Moscow hotel on Manezhnaya Square, the Filion shopping center near Bagrationovskaya metro station . He also took part in the acquisition by Sergei Podlisetskiy of the Gorbushkin Dvor shopping center ^{[6] [7]} .

In 2013, Khotin and his father took the 6th place in the Forbes rating of Kings of Russian Real Estate. ^[5] At the end of 2018, the Integrated Investments company, owned by the Khotin family, took ninth place in the Kings of Russian Real Estate ranking, earning $ 285 million over the course of a year on leasing retail and office space ^[8] .

Since 1996, Khotin has operated several industrial enterprises producing military equipment, chemical raw materials, consumer goods, and food products.

From 2001 to 2003, Khotin served as vice president of the Moscow Association of Chemical Complex Organizations ^[3] .

According to Forbes, Khotin in the 2010s bought at least 10 oil companies that produced about 2.5 million tons of oil in 2016 ^[9] - for example, in 2011 Khotin acquired a large stake in , He also manages the Dulisma oil company ^[10] , owns a stake in Kuwait Energy.

Khotin owned more than half of Ugra Bank through the Cypriot-Swiss company Radamant Financial ^[11] . In 2017, the Central Bank revoked a license from the bank. Later, the Deposit Insurance Agency will declare that 98% (about 240 billion rubles) of all loans issued by the bank were used to finance the business of its owner Alexei Khotin in the field of real estate and oil production ^[12] . Immediately after the recall, borrowers associated with the businessman stopped paying on loans, as a result, as of April 2019, 99.9% of the total debt was not serviced ^[13] .

In April 2019, Ugra Bank sued the Dulisma oil company for bankruptcy ^[14] .

On April 19, 2019, he was detained by officers of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the framework of a criminal case involving the theft of funds from Yugra Bank in the amount of 7.5 billion ^[15] . The businessman was sent under house arrest together with the chairman of the bank Dmitry Shilyaev and the president of the credit organization Alexei Nefedov ^[16] .