Alexander Mashkevitch
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| Born | 1954 Frunze, Kirghiz SSR |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Ethnicity | Jewish |
| Occupation | Major shareholder in Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation |
Alexander Mashkevich (Hebrew: אלכסנדר משקביץ; also transliterated Alexandr Mashkevic; Russian: Александр Машкевич), born in 1954, is a businessman and investor. He has major holdings and close political relationships in Kazakhstan. He holds both Kazakh and Israeli citizenship; according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, he usually travels on his Israeli passport and "rarely spends more than a week each month in Kazakhstan."[1]
Mashkevich was born in Frunze, Kyrgyz SSR, Soviet Union, in 1954 to Rakhel Yoffe (born in Belarus) and Anton (born in Lithuania). He is a graduate of Kyrgyz State University where he studied philology. Mashkevich started out an academic career but became a businessman during perestroika. Mashkevich, Patokh Chodiev, and Alijan Ibragimov form "the Trio," a group of Kazakh businessmen who became billionaires.[1] The Trio gained control of the recently privatized chromium, alumina, and gas operations in Kazakhstan (some of the largest ones in the world).[2][3]
With his partners Chodiev and Ibragimov, Mashkevich helped to develop these assets, and is a major shareholder in Eurasian National Resources Corporation (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 Eastern Europe and Africa. In 2009, ENRC generated a $1,462 million profit on sales of $3.8 billion.
ENRC was floated on the London Stock Exchange in December 2007, with a market capitalisation on Admission of approximately £6.8 billion.
Mashkevich currently serves as President of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) one of the five regional branches of World Jewish Congress (WJC). In this capacity, he has visited a number of synagogues around the world and met with many prominent individuals. He also has the ear of some highly placed Israeli government leaders. For instance, in 2002, Mashkevich had a private meeting with then-Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.[4] In apparent consultation with Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, he asked his personal friend Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev to intervene with Iran concerning Israeli soldiers captured by Hizbullah.[4] Also, while in Israel, Mashkevich "several times rather closely cooperated" with Kazakh Ambassador, now Deputy Foreign Minister, Kairat Abdurakhmanov.[5]
Mashkevich is one of the owners of Alferon Management. Based in London, Alferon Management has acquired mining operations in different places: Zambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Kosovo, Russia, and other countries.[citation needed]
As of 2010 he is on the Forbes list of billionaires at #287.
On April 6, 2011, Mashkevitch announced his intention to found a Jewish version of Al-Jazeera that will "represent Israel on an international level, with real information." [6]
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- ^ a b Krichevsky, Lev (18 October 2004). "Wealthy Kazakh businessman looks to make mark on Jewish world" (HTML). www.ncsj.org. Jewish Telegraphic Agency. http://www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/101804JTA_Mashkevich.shtml. Retrieved 2007-02-17.
- ^ "The Steel Maharajah" (HTML). BBC (BBC News). 24 July 2002. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2146757.stm. Retrieved 2009-08-25.
- ^ Kazhegeldin, Akezhan (December 24, 2004). "The end of the "controlled" democracy" (HTML). "Respublika". International Eurasian Institute for Economic and Political Research. http://iicas.org/2004en/publ_30_12_04.htm. Retrieved 2006-05-04.
- ^ a b Galili, Lily (29 October 2002). "A Kazakh Oligarch Trying To Be a Jewish Tycoon" (HTML). www.ncsj.org. Ha'aretz. http://www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/102902Haaretz.shtml. Retrieved 2007-02-17.
- ^ Rozen, Sami (March 9, 2006). "Kazakh Historian Turned Deputy Minister After Stay in Israel" (HTML). www.axisglobe.com. Axis. http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=722. Retrieved 2007-02-17.
- ^ http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?ID=215498&R=R1
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3966384,00.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/mining/8060202/ENRC-billionaire-was-on-sex-yacht-seized-by-Turkey.html http://www.jewishjournal.com/world/article/jewish_official_not_implicated_in_turkish_sex_yacht_spokesman_says_20101011/
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