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   Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov (born 9/9/1953) is an Uzbek–Russian businessman   
   and oligarch. By 2022, Usmanov had an estimated net worth of $19.5 billion and   
   was among the world's 100 wealthiest people.   
      
   Usmanov made his wealth after the collapse of the Soviet Union, through metal   
   and mining operations, and investments. He is the majority shareholder of   
   Metalloinvest, a Russian industrial conglomerate, which consolidated in 2006   
   JSC Metalloinvest's    
   assets (Mikhailovsky GOK and Ural Steel) with those of Gazmetall JSC   
   (Lebedinsky GOK and the Oskol Electrometallurgical Plant).   
      
   He owns the Kommersant publishing house. He is also a co-owner of Russia's   
   second-largest mobile telephone operator, MegaFon, and owner of Udokan copper   
   which develops one of the largest copper deposits in the world. Usmanov   
   eventually teamed up with    
   Yuri Milner and became the largest investor of Digital Sky Technologies   
   ("DST"). On 16 Sept 2010, Digital Sky Technologies (DST) changed its name to   
   "Mail.ru Group". He also holds shares of a number of international technology   
   companies. He was the    
   president of the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime, the international   
   governing body of the sport of fencing, from 2008-2022.   
      
   On 28 Feb 2022, in reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the   
   European Union blacklisted Usmanov, imposing an EU-wide travel ban on him and   
   freezing all his assets. On 3 March, the United States imposed similar   
   sanctions on him, with some    
   exceptions for his companies. Usmanov was named in the Official Journal of the   
   European Union, the publication of record of the EU, as a "pro-Kremlin   
   oligarch with particularly close ties to Putin [who is] one of Putin's   
   favorite oligarchs."   
      
   He spent six years in a Soviet prison in the 80s on charges of fraud and   
   embezzlement, but his conviction was later overturned. In 2000, he was   
   eventually rehabilitated by the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan, which ruled that   
   the case against him was trumped    
   up and no crime had been committed.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisher_Usmanov   
      
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