{{Short description|Kazakh-Russian entrepreneur and poet (born 1958)}} {{family name hatnote|Safarbekovich|Gutseriev|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Mikhail Gutseriev | image = Gutseriev Mikhail 1.jpg | caption = Gutseriev in 2005 | native_name = {{nobold|Михаил Гуцериев}} | native_name_lang = ru | birth_name = Mikail (Mikhail) Safarbekovich Gutseriev | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1958|03|09}} | birth_place = [[Akmolinsk]], [[Kazakh SSR]], [[Soviet Union]] | occupation = Businessman<br />poet<br />lyricist | citizenship = [[Russian citizenship law|Russian]] | alma_mater = [[Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas]]<br />[[Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation]] | known_for = chairman of the board of directors PJSC [[Russneft]], owner | spouse = | website = | awards = {{plainlist | * [[File:Orden of Friendship.png|25px]] [[Order of Friendship]] * [[File:SU Order of the Badge of Honour ribbon.svg|25px]] [[Order of the Badge of Honour]] }} }} '''Mikail''' ('''Mikhail''') '''Safarbekovich Gutseriev'''{{efn|{{langx|ru|Михаи́л Сафарбе́кович Гуцери́ев}}, {{langx|inh|Гуцаранаькъан Сафарбика Микаьил|Gutsaranäqhan Safarbika Mikäil}}.}} (born 9 March 1958) is a Russian billionaire businessperson of [[Ingush people|Ingush]] descent.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Poems of Mikhail Gutseriev published in famous Nash Sovremennik periodical |url=https://russneft.ru/eng/pressabout/?id=201848 |access-date=2022-03-17 |website=russneft.ru}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=2013-09-27 |title=Russian tycoon Gutseriyev reclaims all of oil firm Russneft |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russneft-sberbank-stake-idUKBRE98Q0DW20130927 |access-date=2022-03-06}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Kramer |first=Andrew E. |date=2007-07-30 |title=Mikhail Gutseriev, the owner of Russneft, accuses Putin of forcing a sale |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/30/business/worldbusiness/30iht-ruble.4.6903032.html |access-date=2022-03-06 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Gutseriev earned his fortune after the collapse of the Soviet Union.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reznik |first=Irina |date=2017-05-04 |title=Once a Fugitive, This Billionaire Aims to Be Russia's Jeff Bezos |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-04/once-a-fugitive-this-billionaire-aims-to-be-russia-s-jeff-bezos |access-date=2022-03-31 |website=www.bloomberg.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Reznik |first=Irina |title=Once a Fugitive, This Billionaire Aims to Be Russia's Jeff Bezos |url=https://www.bloombergquint.com/markets/once-a-fugitive-this-billionaire-aims-to-be-russia-s-jeff-bezos |access-date=2022-03-31 |website=BloombergQuint |date=4 May 2017 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0"/><ref name=":1"/>
He is the former owner of Russneft, one of Russia's largest oil companies.<ref name=":1" /> Since 2002, he has been the permanent participant of the [[Forbes]] annual ranking of 200 richest Russians, where, as of 2023, he has taken 34th place with $3.5 billion.<ref name="forbes-profile">{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.ru/profile/mihail-gutseriev|title=Михаил Гуцериев и брат|website=Forbes.ru}}</ref><ref name="rating">{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.ru/rating/426935-200-bogateyshih-biznesmenov-rossii-2021-reyting-forbes|title=200 богатейших российских бизнесменов. Рейтинг Forbes|publisher=Forbes Россия|date=2021-04-22|access-date=2021-07-01}}</ref><ref name="family">{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.ru/milliardery-photogallery/407493-10-bogateyshih-semeynyh-klanov-rossii-2020?photo=2|title=10 богатейших семейных кланов России — 2020|publisher=Forbes Россия|date=2020-08-25|access-date=2021-07-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/mikhail-gutseriev/|title=Mikhail Gutseriev|website=Forbes|access-date=27 July 2019}}</ref><ref>[https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32021R0997&from=EN COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION 2021/997 of 21 June 2021 implementing Article 8a(1) of Regulation (EC) No 765/2006 concerning restrictive measures in respect of Belarus] - [[Official Journal of the European Union]], 21 June 2021</ref> He fled Russia in 2007 after being charged with tax evasion.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wingfield |first=Brian |title=The World's Richest Tax Cheats |url=https://www.forbes.com/2008/07/09/taxes-wealthy-irs-biz-beltway-cx_bw_0709taxcheats.html |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.forbes.ru/milliardery/487934-110-rossijskih-milliarderov-rejting-forbes-2023 |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=Forbes |language=ru |title=110 российских миллиардеров. Рейтинг Forbes — 2023 }}</ref> In 2010, he came back to Russia after the charges were withdrawn.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2013-09-27 |title=Russian tycoon Gutseriyev reclaims all of oil firm Russneft |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russneft-sberbank-stake-idUKBRE98Q0DW20130927 |access-date=2022-03-24}}</ref>
== Biography == Gutseriev was born on 9 March 1958 in a large [[Ingush people|Ingush]] family in [[Astana|Akmolinsk]]. His family was repressed and exiled to [[Kazakhstan]]. His father, Safarbek Gutseriev, worked as a senior investigator for especially important cases in the Akmolinsk regional directorate of the [[NKVD]]; he was arrested in 1948 and released six months after [[Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin|Joseph Stalin's death]].<ref name="meduza-family">{{cite web |language=ru |url=https://meduza.io/feature/2017/02/08/samyy-poetichnyy-milliarder |title=Самый поэтичный миллиардер. Как Михаил Гуцериев потерял все, вернул свой бизнес и стал главным эстрадным поэтом страны |trans-title=The most poetic billionaire: how Mikhail Gutseriev lost everything, regained his business and became the country's main pop lyricist |author=Zhegulyov, Ilya |website=Meduza |date=8 February 2017 |access-date=27 April 2026}}</ref> His mother was Marem Yakubovna Akhilgova.<ref name="rg-family">{{cite web |language=ru |url=https://rg.ru/2022/01/23/svidetel-osvobozhdeniia-zalozhnikov-alihan-amirhanov-raskryl-tajny-specoperacij.html |title=Свидетель освобождения заложников Алихан Амирханов раскрыл тайны спецопераций |trans-title=Witness to the release of hostages Alikhan Amirkhanov revealed secrets of special operations |author=Dashkov, Igor |website=Rossiyskaya Gazeta |date=23 January 2022 |access-date=27 April 2026}}</ref> Among his brothers are [[Khamzat Gutseriev]], a former law-enforcement official and member of the [[Federation Council (Russia)|Federation Council]], and businessman {{ill|Sait-Salam Gutseriev|ru|Гуцериев, Саит-Салам Сафарбекович}}.<ref name="forbes-family">{{cite web |language=ru |url=https://www.forbes.ru/forbes/issue/2014-09/265621-10-bogateishikh-semei-rossii |title=10 богатейших семей России |trans-title=The 10 richest families in Russia |website=Forbes.ru |date=2 September 2014 |access-date=26 April 2026}}</ref><ref name="vedomosti-family">{{cite web |language=ru |url=https://www.vedomosti.ru/business/galleries/2025/04/10/1103267-predprinimatelstvo-v-krovi |title=Предпринимательство в крови: известные бизнесмены among brothers and sisters |website=Vedomosti |date=10 April 2025 |access-date=26 April 2026}}</ref>
He finished high school No. 23 in [[Grozny]], [[Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic|Checheno-Ingush ASSR]]. The school, completely destroyed during the [[First Chechen War]], was rebuilt in 2005 with Gutseriev's financial support.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vedomosti.ru/newspaper/articles/2007/08/21/on-vsegda-byl-beloj-voronoj|title="Он всегда был белой вороной"|website=Ведомости|date=21 August 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mkset.ru/news/person/1674/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110418120419/http://mkset.ru/news/person/1674/|url-status=dead|title=Сергей Черников: "Страну никто не переделает, кроме нас"|archivedate=18 April 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.russneft.ru/april2004/news_9466.stm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130720215551/http://russneft.ru/april2004/news_9466.stm|url-status=dead|title=«РуссНефть» в 2004 году вложит в социальную сферу Чечни $ 12 млн.|archivedate=20 July 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rosinvest.com/news/120011/|title=archive.ph|website=archive.ph|access-date=18 January 2023|archive-date=11 September 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120911095426/http://www.rosinvest.com/news/120011/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
From 1982, Gutseriev worked as a process engineer, later on – as a senior process engineer of Grozny Production Association at the [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|RSFSR]] Ministry of Local Industry, Grozny. He became CEO of the Association.<ref>С. Кредов. [https://archive.today/20120710081914/http://dokisom.ru/146/119 Мечтаю о новом Самотлоре]</ref> In 1991, Gutseriev was elected Chairman of Businessmen Association of Checheno-Ingush ASSR.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}
In 1992, when [[Dzhokhar Dudayev]] took power, Gutseriev had to leave his business and moved to Moscow, where he founded industrial and financial company "BIN" (Bank of Investments and Innovations), uniting industrial, trading and financial enterprises. In 1993 he founded and headed the Joint Stock Commercial Bank BIN.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}
1994 marked Gutseriev's development of the free economic zone for residents, the first one in the post Soviet countries, called the Zone of economic well-being [[Ingushetia]] (ZEWI). On 19 June 1994 the Government of the Russian Federation issued Resolution No. 740 on establishing ZEWI and appointed Gutseriev as the head of its Financial sector.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}
ZEWI received the legal right to return taxes paid to the federal budget back to the budget of the republic. According to the Federal Tax Service of Ingushetia, for the period from 1994 to 1997 that sum amounted to 1 billion 388 million denominated rubles. The financial corporation "BIN", being the official agent of the government of Ingushetia, was engaged in the registration of enterprises in the zone of economic favor. All financial flows of the Ingushetia free economic zone were accumulated on the accounts of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Ingushetia and were controlled by the federal and republican tax authorities. ZEWI existed until 3 July 1997.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}
However, in August 1997, in order to complete the construction of ZEWI facilities Gutseriev created the Center for Entrepreneurship Development (CED). During the operation of the CED, large infrastructure facilities were put into operation, in particular, water supply networks for settlements in Ingushetia, external engineering networks for a gas turbine power plant, sections of gas pipelines and roads that were important for the economic infrastructure of Ingushetia. In addition, thanks to the efforts of the CED, the construction of a number of residential buildings and the government complex in Magas were completed, and other social and industrial facilities were built. The main investor of the CED was Mikhail Gutseriev.<ref>Распоряжение Правительства Российской Федерации от 25 ноября 1994 г. № 1848–р.</ref>
=== Education ===
In 1981, Mikhail Gutseriev graduated from the Dzhambul Technological Institute of Light and Food Industry with a degree in "Leather and Fur Technology". In 1995 he graduated from [[Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation|Finance Academy under the Government of Russian Federation]], majoring in "Finance and Credits", [[Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas]], majoring in "Methods and Technology of Oil and Gas Engineering", St. Petersburg University of Law, majoring in "Civil Law" and Post graduate course at St. Petersburg University of Law, having received master's degree in "Criminal Procedural Law". Eventually he pursued Doctoral studies at the [[Plekhanov Russian University of Economics]], majoring in "Free Economic Zones". In 1996 he defended his PhD thesis on "Criminality in major cities: State of affairs and prevention problems on the materials of Moscow and Saint-Petersburg in Saint-Petersburg Law University, PhD in Law.<ref name="вед_10_11">{{Cite web|url=https://lenta.ru/lib/14163202/|title=Гуцериев, Михаил Владелец и президент компании "РуссНефть"|website=lenta.ru}}</ref>
=== State Duma === In 1995 he was elected as deputy to the [[State Duma]], where he took up the post of Deputy chairman.<ref>[http://www.panorama.ru/fs/gd2ruk.shtml Государственная Дума второго созыва. Руководство Государственной Думы] // База данных "Панорама"</ref> Due to his position, he sold a 100% stake of AKB [[B&Nbank|B&N]] (BIN) and thus exited from the equity of the bank. In 1996 Mikhail Gutseriev initiated, developed and proposed for consideration of the State Duma a regulation on establishing a "Center for International Business", a standard offshore zone for non-residents. The State Duma approved the Federal Law on the "Center for International Business" (No. 16-FZ), with the major provisions compiling with general regulations of the laws on international businesses. The president approved the Law on 30 January 1996. The Law was effective for 1 year and international non-residents started their registration. The economic crisis of 1998, a strong decline in the Ruble exchange rate, and further default made the government suspend the effect of the law which has been in a "sleeping mode" so far.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}
In 1999 for the second time Gutseriev was elected a [[State Duma]] Deputy for the Third Convocation of the [[Federal Assembly (Russia)|Federal Assembly]]. However, on 14 January 2000, Gutseriev was elected as the President of [[Slavneft]] at the extraordinary meeting of shareholders of the company and had to turn down the Deputy's mandate.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}
Gutseriev is the author of a [[monograph]] and an array of research publications on free economic [[free economic zone]]s and [[Offshoring|offshore]] business issues in Russia.<ref name="вед_06_10">[http://www.radiomayak.ru/doc.html?id=33856&cid=42 Биография Михаила Гуцериева]{{Dead link|date=November 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>
=== Getting back into business === On 27 February 2001, Gutseriev was elected the Vice President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/officer-profile/RNFT.MM/937155|title=NK Russneft' PAO (RNFT.MM) People|website=Reuters|access-date=27 July 2019|archive-date=27 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190727092021/https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/officer-profile/RNFT.MM/937155|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2002 the stocks of [[Slavneft]] were sold to Sibneft Consortium (now Gazpromneft) and Tyumen Oil Company for US$1.86 bn, and Gutseriev established and became a head of OJSC NK "RussNeft" in 2002. The stocks of Slavneft were sold at knockdown prices.<ref name=":0" />
In September 2002, Gutseriev founded and ran [[RussNeft]], the oil and gas company.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}
=== RussNeft case === In 2006 he was accused of [[tax evasion]], forcing him to sell RussNeft at a fraction of its value, before fleeing to London, due to fears of persecution and legal repercussions in Russia.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Zhdannikov|first=Dmitry|title=How one Russian oligarch beat the financial crisis and made a fortune|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-mikhail-gutseriyev-fortune-2016-4|access-date=2021-03-12|website=Business Insider}}</ref>
In the end of July 2007 Gutseriev in an open letter announced that authorities made an unprecedented pressure on him, and he was forced to sell [[RussNeft]] to the [[Basic Element (company)|Basic Element]] holding, owned by loyal to the [[Kremlin]] [[Oleg Deripaska]]. Gutseriev stepped down as a President of [[RussNeft]] and announced his suspension of entrepreneurial activity (apart from [[RussNeft]] he owned Russian coal and many other companies) and his decision to move on to scientific endeavor.<ref>[https://archive.today/20130504134028/http://www.vedomosti.ru/newspaper/article.shtml?2007/07/31/130171 ''Ирина Резник''. Гуцериев уходит в науку] // Ведомости, № 140 (1914), 31 July 2007</ref><ref>[https://www.vz.ru/economy/2007/7/31/97821.html ''Петр Канаев''. Гуцериев научит] // Взгляд, 31 July 2007</ref>
On 28 August 2007 The Tverskoy court of Moscow issued [[arrest warrant]] in absentia for Gutseriev, meeting the request of the Investigative Committee under the [[Ministry of Internal Affairs (Russia)|Ministry of Internal Affairs]]. Russia issues an international arrest warrant for Gutseriev.<ref>[http://www.rian.ru/society/20070828/75377164.html Сообщение РИА Новости]</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/29/business/worldbusiness/29iht-ruble.1.7298400.html|title=Russia issues warrant for former head of Russneft oil company|last=Kramer|first=Andrew E.|date=29 August 2007|work=The New York Times|access-date=27 July 2019|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> At that moment Gutseriev had already been in London, having got US$3 billion from Oleg Deripaska from the RussNeft sale.<ref>[http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=799392&NodesID=6 ''Максим Федоров, Елена Киселева, Денис Ребров, Игорь Орлов''. Утечка нефтекапитала] // Коммерсант, № 155 (3731), 29 августа 2007</ref>
On 16 October 2007 Gutseriev applied for [[political asylum]] to the Border and Immigration Agency of the [[Home Office]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.mail.ru/incident/1464146/|title=Гуцериев просит политического убежища в Великобритании|access-date=27 July 2011|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120716025638/http://news.mail.ru/incident/1464146/|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 July 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://echo.msk.ru/news/403473.html|title=Политическое убежище в Великобритании просит бывший глава Русснефти Михаил Гуцериев|access-date=27 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210092529/http://echo.msk.ru/news/403473.html|url-status=live|archive-date=10 December 2014}}</ref> but this information was officially refuted.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gazeta.ru/news/lenta/2007/12/10/n_1151015.shtml|title=Посол: Гуцериев не просил убежища в Британии|access-date=27 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306044748/http://www.gazeta.ru/news/lenta/2007/12/10/n_1151015.shtml|url-status=live|archive-date=6 March 2012}}</ref>
Near the end of October 2010, the Investigative Committee varied the preventive measure for Gutseriev from arrest in absentia on undertaking not to leave his usual place of residence.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120907145957/http://www.rbcdaily.ru/2009/10/28/focus/438763 Гуцериев вышел из-под ареста: опальному бизнесмену изменили меру пресечения] // РБК daily, 28 октября 2009</ref>
In January 2010 Gutseriev regained his control over the 100% of the oil company. By the mid-April 2010 all the charges against Gutseriev were dropped, the criminal cases were dismissed. In April 2010 it was announced that Gutseriev has sold 49% of the company to Joint-Stock Financial Corporation [[Sistema]] and 2% more to [[Sberbank of Russia]].<ref name="вед_04_10">[http://www.vedomosti.ru/newspaper/article/2010/04/26/232404 ''Ирина Резник, Екатерина Дербилова''. Гуцериев сделал дело] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110309075621/http://www.vedomosti.ru/newspaper/article/2010/04/26/232404 |date=9 March 2011 }} // Ведомости, № 74 (2592), 26 апреля 2010</ref>
On 7 May 2010, Gutseriev came back to Russia in order to visit the tombs of his parents and son.<ref>[https://www.gazeta.ru/news/lastnews/2010/05/07/n_1492087.shtml Гуцериев прилетел в Ингушетию] // Газета. Ru, 7 мая 2010</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://echo.msk.ru/news/677923-echo.html|title=Бывший глава компании "Русснефть" Михаил Гуцериев сегодня прилетел в Ингушетию}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://svpressa.ru/society/news/24980/|title=Гуцериев, оказавшись в России, первым делом посетил могилы родни|date=7 May 2010|website=svpressa.ru}}</ref>
In the summer of 2013 Mikhail Gutseriev once again became the sole owner of JSC [[RussNeft]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2218541|title="Русснефть" разделили цивилизованно|date=24 June 2013|website=www.kommersant.ru}}</ref>
In February 2015, bearing in mind massive expansion of the business of the two of his major oil companies JSC [[RussNeft]] and JSC Neftisa, he became the chairman of the board of directors both companies, having focused on the strategic management of his assets.<ref>[http://ria.ru/economy/20150223/1049191092.html Владелец «Русснефти» Гуцериев возглавил совет директоров компании | РИА Новости<!-- The title was added by a bot -->]</ref>
After the European Union introduced sanctions against Gutseriev in 2021, he resigned from the board of directors of RussNeft, and sold control in Neftisa to his younger brother Sait-Salam.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.interfax.ru/business/774509|title=Гуцериеву нашли замену в СД "Русснефти"|language=ru|date=2021-06-29|publisher=Interfax}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4910175|title="Нефтису" поделили по-братски|language=ru|date=2021-07-22|publisher=Kommersant}}</ref>
=== Activities for the release of victims of kidnapping and hostage-taking === {{BLP one source|section|date=March 2022}} Between 1996 and 2006, Gutseriev played a key role in helping the Russian special services to release a large number of hostages kidnapped in the North Caucasus by various criminal groups.<ref name="rg-2022-01-23">Дашков И. [https://rg.ru/2022/01/23/svidetel-osvobozhdeniia-zalozhnikov-alihan-amirhanov-raskryl-tajny-specoperacij.html Один в поле. Воин]. // «[[Российская газета]]», № 14(8662), 23 января 2022.</ref><ref name="ria-2022-01">[https://ria.ru/20220123/gutseriev-1769166173.html Гуцериев никогда не платил террористам за заложников, заявил экс-депутат]. // «[[РИА-Новости]]», 23 января 2022.</ref><ref>Прокопенков А. [https://www.mk.ru/politics/2022/01/24/spasibo-gucerievu-za-muzhestvo-za-otvagu-za-to-chto-on-pomog-lyudyam.html «Спасибо Гуцериеву за мужество, за отвагу, за то, что он помог людям»]. // «[[Московский комсомолец|МК]]», 24.01.2022.</ref><ref name="kp-2022">[https://www.kp.ru/online/news/4601626/ Экс-глава МВД Степашин рассказал о том, как Михаил Гуцериев помогал освобождать заложников]. // «[[Комсомольская правда]]», 24 января 2022.</ref><ref name="trud-2022">[https://www.trud.ru/article/25-01-2022/1411902_eks-glava_mvd_stepashin_rasskazal_kak_vmeste_s_gutserievym_oni_osvobozhdali_poxischennyx_na_kavkaze.html Экс-глава МВД Степашин рассказал, как вместе с Гуцериевым они освобождали похищенных на Кавказе]. // «[[Труд (газета)|Труд]]», 25 января 2022.</ref><ref name="ng-2022">[https://www.ng.ru/news/730456.html «Он здорово помог людям»: Сергей Степашин рассказал о роли Михаила Гуцериева в спасении заложников]. // «[[Независимая газета]]», 24.01.2022.</ref><ref name="vek-2022">Наумов Д. [https://wek.ru/spasibo-emu-za-otvagu-yeks-glava-mvd-stepashin-rasskazal-ob-uchastii-mixaila-gucerieva-v-spasenii-zalozhnikov-na-kavkaze «Спасибо ему за отвагу»: экс-глава МВД Степашин рассказал об участии Михаила Гуцериева в спасении заложников на Кавказе]. // Газета «Век», 25 января 2022.</ref> Thus, according to the memoirs of A. Kh. Amirkhanov, M. S. Gutseriev, being at that time the Vice-Speaker of the State Duma, "was the principal liaison in all negotiations and all special operations for the release of hostages." In particular, thanks to Gutseriev's activities, the following people were rescued from captivity: Slovak construction person Imrich Rigo (kidnapped on 10 October 1996, released on 14 February 1997), director of the Swiss firm Seibert-Stinnes Robert Hill (kidnapped on 2 February 1997, released on 2 July 1997) and director of a brick factory from Serbia Milan Evtic (kidnapped in December 1997). Gutseriev also "played a decisive role" in the release of Stanislav Taslitsky, the head of the construction of a water pipeline in Ingushetia, and the banker Viktor Morgun, from the captivity.<ref name="rg-2022-01-23" />
On 1 May 1998, Valentin Vlasov, the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Government of the Russian Federation in the Chechen Republic, was captured by a group of Chechen militants on the Rostov-Baku highway.<ref name="бакуев">{{cite web|language=ru|url=http://www.infox.ru/accident/crime/2009/02/11/V_Chechne_obnarugili_print.phtml|title=В Чечне обнаружили тела двух солдат|author=Шляхтин Р.|date=2009-02-11|publisher=[[Infox]]|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111162956/http://www.infox.ru/accident/crime/2009/02/11/V_Chechne_obnarugili_print.phtml|archivedate=2012-01-11|url-status=live|accessdate=2011-04-25}}</ref><ref name="рыбкин">{{cite web|language=ru|url=http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/beseda/12369.phtml|title=Эхо Москвы: Иван Рыбкин|author=|date=1998-11-13|publisher=[[Эхо Москвы]]|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729135425/http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/beseda/12369.html|archivedate=2014-07-29|url-status=dead|accessdate=2011-04-25}}</ref><ref name="масхадов">{{cite web|language=ru|url=http://www.yabloko.ru/win/Forums/Archive/356.html|title=Ельцин и Масхадов союзники?|author=Бальбуров Д.|date=1998-05-05|publisher=[[Московские новости]]|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080109130208/http://www.yabloko.ru/win/Forums/Archive/356.html|archivedate=2008-01-09|accessdate=2011-04-25|url-status=dead}}</ref> Being aware of his successful experience of the hostages release, officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia appealed to Gutseriev to help organize the negotiation process. According to the memoirs of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998-1999) and the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation (1999) Sergey Stepashin, the negotiation process was led by Gutseriev, thanks to whom it was possible to determine the location of Vlasov. Thanks to a special operation conducted under the leadership of Deputy Interior Minister V. Rushailo, on 13 November 1998, V. Vlasov was released. According to Stepashin, Gutseriev refused a state award for this special operation.<ref name="rg-2022-01-23" />
On 29 January 1998, in Vladikavkaz, a French citizen, representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Vincent Cochetel, was kidnapped. From Moscow, the operation to liberate Cochetel was led by Interior Minister S. Stepashin, and the negotiations and all contacts were conducted by Gutseriev. On 12 December 1998, Vincent Cochetel was released as a result of a special operation carried out by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation with the participation of RF Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs [[Vladimir Rushailo]] and Mikhail Gutseriev. For this operation, Stepashin was awarded the Order of the Commander of the Legion of Honor by French President Jacques Chirac. According to S. Stepashin, "this award is our joint one with Mikhail Gutseriev, although, as I have already said, he treated the orders quite philosophically".<ref name="rg-2022-01-23" />
In addition, it is known about the participation of M. Gutseriev in organizing the release from captivity of the captain of the Russian Armed Forces Vitaly Korotin, major of the North Caucasian RUBOP of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Vitaly Khapov and five employees of the regiment of the patrol and guard service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Gutseriev also took part in the successful release of five women who were fraudulently lured to Chechnya and abducted. Besides, Gutseriev was among those who rescued from captivity Ilez Deniev, a religious figure and the son of Sheikh Deni Arsanov.<ref name="rg-2022-01-23" />
In early 1999, S. Stepashin asked Gutseriev to help rescue the servants of the Russian Orthodox Church, Peter Makarov and Sergei Potapov. They were released in May of the same year along with five Russian servicemen.<ref name="rg-2022-01-23" />
In 1999, during the assault of Grozny by the armed forces, Gutseriev managed to agree with war lords upon the evacuation of about 90 people living in a nursing home in the Staropromyslovsky district of the capital of the Chechen Republic.<ref name="rg-2022-01-23" />
On 4 October 1999, Dmitry Balburov, a journalist of the Moscow News, was kidnapped in Chechnya. Gutseriev took part in his release. On 1 September 2004, terrorists took hostages at school No. 1 in Beslan. In the evening of the same day, the operational headquarters organized to rescue the hostages decided to involve Gutseriev in the negotiation process. On the morning of 2 September 2004, Gutseriev came into contact with terrorists and began negotiations. He obtained a number of concessions from the terrorists, namely to accept supplies of drinking water for children, to evacuate the bodies of the hostages they killed and to release 26 people (24 children were taken out from the school). During the negotiations Gutseriev offered himself as a hostage, asking to release the children, but the terrorists refused. According to the memoirs of A. Kh. Amirkhanov, after Beslan, Basayev said that Gutseriev "deceived the mujahideen in Beslan, telling them that there would definitely not be an assault, and persuaded them to let the Ministry of Emergency Situations car with special forces near the building. […] We will make him choke on his own blood and feel all its bitterness." Many of the hostages were not rescued. Nevertheless, according to the conclusion of the commission for evaluation of the operational headquarters actions, "the involvement of reputable members of the Ingush diaspora Gutseriev and Aushev in the negotiations was a timely measure, adequate to the current situation".<ref name="rg-2022-01-23" />
In 2006, at the request of the authorities, Gutseriev was again involved in the negotiation process and helped to release a member of the Ingush parliament, Magomed Chakhkiev.<ref name="rg-2022-01-23" />
For many years of work on the release of kidnapping and hostage-taking victims, Gutseriev was repeatedly offered various state orders and medals, but he always refused them with the words: "I just fulfilled my civic duty. And on human grief, I won't hang a medal on my chest".<ref name="rg-2022-01-23" />
=== SAFMAR === Gutseriev is the biggest owner of the commercial real estate on [[Tverskaya Street]] in Moscow.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vedomosti.ru/library/library-investigation/news/5944711/hozyaeva_tverskoj|title=Кто владеет самой дорогой улицей России|author=Ринат Сагдиев, Ольга Петрова|date=13 November 2012|publisher=Ведомости|access-date=25 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126074110/http://www.vedomosti.ru/library/library-investigation/news/5944711/hozyaeva_tverskoj|url-status=live|archive-date=26 January 2013}}</ref>
Development of industrial companies owned by Gutseriev allowed purchasing new assets leading to business great diversification. With the pursue of efficient management of the assets portfolio, the businessman established AO Safmar Group, a managing company. Gutseriev became a head of the Group's Board who defines the development strategy of the holding. Within the period from 2015 to 2020 Safmar was joined by large electronic retailers M.Video and Eldorado,<ref>{{Cite news |date=2017-04-28 |title=BRIEF-Russia's Safmar group completes acquisition of M.video |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/brief-russias-safmar-group-completes-acq-idUSL8N1I06RU |access-date=2022-08-07}}</ref> coal mining enterprises Kuzbasskaya Toplivnaya Company,<ref>{{Cite web |title="Сафмар" может стать единственным владельцем Кузбасской топливной компании |url=https://www.vedomosti.ru/business/articles/2019/11/07/815710-safmar |access-date=2022-08-07 |website=Ведомости |date=7 November 2019 |language=ru}}</ref> Krasnoyarskrayugol, etc., oil companies (Sladkovsko-Zarechnoye located in Orenburg region<ref>{{Cite web |title="Коммерсантъ" узнал о крупной сделке "Нефтисы" на российском рынке |url=https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/58d884ef9a79479218d06c60 |access-date=2022-08-07 |website=РБК |date=27 March 2017 |language=ru}}</ref>), refineries (Afipsky Refinery<ref>{{Cite news |date=2019-04-29 |title=Russian tycoon Gutseriyev to take control of Afipsky oil refinery -sources |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/russia-sberbank-refinery-idUSL5N22B2C7 |access-date=2022-08-07}}</ref>), a number of construction and development holdings (A101), major logistics operators (MLP, etc.), non-government pension funds, leasing and insurance companies.
=== Business in Belarus, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan === {{BLP unreferenced section|date=March 2022}} Gutseriev has been implementing business projects in Belarus since 2000, when he was appointed by the governments of Russia and Belarus as president of [[Slavneft]], the Russian and Belarusian state oil and gas company. Lead my him, Slavneft upgraded Mozyr Oil Refinery, which became part of the company. After Slavneft became private and was sold to TNK-BP and Sibneft, Gutseriev resigned from the position of president of Slavneft. In 2005 in order to increase export opportunities, RussNeft, established by Gutseriev, built an oil loading railway terminal in Bryansk region to deliver raw materials to Belarus, Ukraine, the Baltic States and Eastern Europe.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}
In 2011, Gutseriev's Slavkali company signed an investment agreement with the government of Belarus, according to which $2 billion was to be invested in the construction of Nezhinsky MPP at a potassium site near the city of Lyuban, 150 km from Minsk. The agreement also provides commitments to invest $250 million into social and economic infrastructure projects of Belarus, some of which, worth $180 million, have already been implemented: the Renaissance hotel, managed by the American company Marriott, the office center, business aviation terminal in major airport and Krasnoselskoye recreation estate for personal needs and recreation of employees.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}
In July 2017, the construction of the plant started.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}
In January and February 2020, during another "oil conflict" between Minsk and Moscow, Gutseriev's oil companies were the only companies which, before signing contracts with major suppliers, ensured the sale of Russian oil to Belarus. At the same time, the volume of supplies was about 500 thous. tons per month, which accounted for 25% of the total volume of oil supplies to Belarus. At the same time, in order to maintain the balance of oil products and the needs of the population, in addition to Gutseriev's companies, oil was supplied to Belarus by the Azerbaijani state company SOCAR, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia Saudi Aramco, and mining companies in Norway. US Secretary of State [[Michael Pompeo]] at a meeting with President of Belarus A. Lukashenko said that the United States is ready to fully meet the country's needs in raw materials.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}
Gutseriev built an elite private gymnasium in [[Drazdy]] ([[Minsk]]), which [[Nikolai Lukashenko]] graduated from in 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.occrp.org/ru/daily/18704-2024-05-08-15-01-49|title=«Бюро»: Все действующие частные школы Беларуси имеют связи во власти|work=[[OCCRP]]|date=2024-05-08|language=ru}}</ref>
Gutseriev is the owner of GCM Global Energy Inc., the British company, which produces oil in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}
=== Media === In 2010 Gutseriev became the key player in the broadcasting market of the [[Russian Federation]], owning a total of eight Media and Radio stations.<ref name="РБК02">Сергей Соболев. [http://daily.rbc.ru/special/technology_and_media/02/07/2015/559283559a794747fc352c2a Денежный эфир: сколько зарабатывают радиостанции в России] "[[РБК (медиахолдинг)|РБК]]". 2 July 2015</ref><ref name="К231">''Павел Белавин''. [https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2368699 Михаил Гуцериев хочет поговорить] // Газета "Коммерсантъ" № 231 от 14 December 2013, стр. 3</ref>
In June 2012 he acquired broadcasting stations "Просто Радио" (Moscow, 94 FM) and "Dobriye Pesni" (Moscow, 94.4 FM) from [[Alexander Lebedev]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lenta.ru/news/2012/06/27/gutseriev/|title=Гуцериев купил у Лебедева две радиостанции|website=Lenta.RU}}</ref> In January 2013 it became known that 75% of the shares of Krutoy Media Holding (Love Radio, Radio Dacha and Taxi FM) were purchased by Gutseriev while the remaining 25% were kept by [[Igor Krutoy]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dp.ru/a/2013/01/30/Strukturi_Mihaila_Gucerie|title=Структуры Михаила Гуцериева приобрели радиостанции Krutoy Media|website=dp.ru}}</ref><ref name="К231" /> In November 2013 he acquired Finam FM Broadcasting station (Moscow, 99.6 FM),<ref>[http://www.rbcdaily.ru/2012/10/29/media/562949985020686 Михаил Гуцериев запустил две радиостанции: «Весна FM» и «Восток FM»]</ref> which together with"Vostok FM" and "Vesna FM" formed Izyum Holding.<ref name="РБК02" /> In January 2017 Mikhail Gutseriev became an owner of Bridge Media Group, one of the largest television holdings of the country that includes number of the popular music channels.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Анна Афанасьева, Елизавета Макарова |date=18 January 2017 |title=Михаил Гуцериев включился в телевизор |url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3194984 |edition=Газета "Коммерсантъ" |issue=8 |pages=7}}</ref>
===Production=== Mikhail Gutseriev is a producer for different shows, TV programs and music videos. They include The Thousand and One Nights or Territory of Love, A New Year’s Tale New Year’s musicals on NTV Channel, Sing in Your Soul talent show, Victoria Russian National Music Award, Chanson of the Year Award, Big Love classical music concert, New Music pop music show, Radio Dacha Songs show, Stars of the East, Big Love Show, Razgulay Show, Velvet Chanson, Night of Happy Hopes charitable Christmas shows, Winter Show. He also acted as a producer for Ani Lorak DIVA show, The Wight Swan and Anna Karenina films, REKA FEST festivals and BRIDGE TV NEED FOR FEST in Turkey, produced Russian national football team hymn, Grammy Award exhibition in Russia and other projects.<ref>{{Cite web|language=ru|url=https://versia.ru/mixail-safarbekovich-guceriev|title=Михаил Сафарбекович Гуцериев - Михаил Сафарбекович Гуцериев|website=versia.ru|access-date=2023-06-04}}</ref>
Mikhail Gutseriev Production Center received an award from RU.TV Channel as the best production center of the year. In 2022 TopHit Music Award named Mikhail Gutseriev Production Center Record Label of the Year.<ref>{{Cite web|language=ru|url=https://ugra.mk.ru/articles/2014/06/06/prodyuserskiy-centr-goda-prestizhnuyu-premiyu-telekanala-rutv-poluchil-prodyuserskiy-centr-poeta-mikhaila-gucerieva-.html|title=«Продюсерский центр года»: престижную премию телеканала RU.TV получил "Продюсерский центр поэта Михаила Гуцериева"|website=ugra.mk.ru|date=2014-06-06|access-date=2023-06-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|language=ru-RU|url=https://gutserievmedia.ru/awards/5761/|title=ДРУГИЕ НАГРАДЫ|website=Продюсерский центр поэта Михаила Гуцериева|date=2023-05-23|access-date=2023-06-04}}</ref>
== Sanctions == On June 21, 2021, Mikhail Gutseriev was added to the European Union sanctions list, with the explanation that he "benefits from and supports the Lukashenko regime." The sanctions were imposed in response to the suppression of protests in Belarus and the incident involving the forced landing of a Boeing 737 in Minsk. The measures include a ban on entry into EU countries and the freezing of personal assets within the EU.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-06-22 |title=Михаил Гуцериев стал жертвой режима. |url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4867915 |website=Коммерсантъ}}</ref> By early 2022, all of Gutseriev’s European bank accounts and assets had been frozen. The sanctions allow for the blocking of any business in which Gutseriev holds more than 50% ownership or has the right to make decisions unilaterally. EU legislation considers not only formal ownership but also actual control.
Following his inclusion in the EU blacklist, Gutseriev stepped down from the board of directors of ''RussNeft'', which he had chaired.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-06-24 |title=Гуцериев решил покинуть совет директоров «РуссНефти» |url=https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2021/06/24/gutseriev-reshil-pokinut-sovet-direktorov-russnefti}}</ref> On July 6, 2021, Albania, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, North Macedonia, and Montenegro joined the EU’s June sanctions package.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-07-06 |title=Declaration by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union on the alignment of certain third countries with the Council Decision (CFSP) 2021/1002 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Belarus |url=https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2021/07/06/declaration-by-the-high-representative-on-behalf-of-the-eu-on-the-alignment-of-certain-countries-concerning-restrictive-measures-in-view-of-the-situation-in-belarus/ |website=Совет Европейского союза}}</ref>
On July 7, 2021, Switzerland announced its alignment with the EU sanctions list.<ref>{{Cite news |date= |title=Швейцария присоединилась к персональным санкциям ЕС против Белоруссии. |url=https://ria.ru/20210707/shveytsariya-1740280271.html |work=РИА Новости}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Shields, Michael; Liffey, Kevin.: . Liffey, Kevin: Swiss widen sanctions list against Belarus |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/swiss-widen-sanctions-list-against-belarus-2021-07-07/ |work=Reuters}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |title=Sanctions program: Belarus: Verordnung vom 11. Dezember 2020 über Massnahmen gegenüber Belarus (SR 946.231.116.9), Anhang 1 Origin: EU Sanctions: Art. 2 Abs. 1 (Finanzsanktionen) und Art. 3 Abs. 1 (Ein- und Durchreiseverbot) |url=https://www.seco.admin.ch/dam/seco/de/dokumente/Aussenwirtschaft/Wirtschaftsbeziehungen/Exportkontrollen/Sanktionen/Verordnungen/Belarus/belarus_2021-07-07.pdf.download.pdf/Belarus_2021-07-07.pdf |journal=Belarus}}</ref> On August 9, 2021, the United Kingdom imposed sanctions against Gutseriev.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Британия ввела новый пакет санкций против белорусских властей. |url=https://www.rosbalt.ru/world/2021/08/09/1915203.html |work=Росбалт}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Великобритания, США и Канада ввели новые ограничения против Беларуси. Под британские санкции попал и бизнесмен Михаил Гуцериев. |url=https://meduza.io/news/2021/08/09/velikobritaniya-vvela-sanktsii-protiv-belarusi-pod-nih-popal-i-rossiyskiy-biznesmen-mihail-gutseriev |work=Meduza}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Financial Sanctions Notice |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1009568/Notice_Belarus_090821.pdf |website=Казначейство Её Величества}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=ЕС, США, Британия и Канада ввели санкции против Беларуси из-за миграционного кризиса. |url=https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2021/12/02/es-ssha-britaniia-i-kanada-vveli-sanktsii-protiv-belarusi-iz-za-migratsionnogo-krizisa-news |work=Новая газета}}</ref>
On April 19, 2022, in the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Gutseriev was sanctioned by Canada as one of the “associates of the Russian regime” for his “complicity in Russia’s unjustified invasion of Ukraine”.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sanctions – Russian invasion of Ukraine |url=https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/issues_development-enjeux_developpement/response_conflict-reponse_conflits/crisis-crises/ukraine-sanctions.aspx?lang=eng |website=Министерство международных дел Канады}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Канада ввела санкции против Набиуллиной, Тихоновой и Воронцовой. |url=https://www.forbes.ru/society/463049-kanada-vvela-sankcii-protiv-nabiullinoj-tihonovoj-i-voroncovoj |website=Forbes}}</ref>
On October 19, 2022, he was included in Ukraine’s sanctions list for “supporting actions and policies that undermine and threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty, and independence of Ukraine, as well as its stability and security”.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ГУЦЕРИЕВ Михаил Сафарбекович - биография, досье, активы. |url=https://sanctions.nazk.gov.ua/ru/sanction-person/3910/ |website=Война и санкции.}}</ref> On similar grounds, he was also sanctioned by Australia, Switzerland, and New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mikhail Safarbekovich GUTSERIEV |url=https://www.opensanctions.org/entities/Q1346607/ |website=OpenSanctions.}}</ref>
In April 2022, due to the imposed sanctions, Cyprus revoked the “golden passports” of Gutseriev and his family members, stripping them of Cypriot citizenship.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Кипр отозвал «золотые паспорта» у четырех российских олигархов. |url=https://www.moscowtimes.nl/2022/04/14/kipr-otozval-zolotie-pasporta-u-21-rossiiskogo-oligarha-a19571 |work=Русская служба The Moscow Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Кипр лишит гражданства Дерипаску, Берёзкина и Кесаева. |url=https://www.svoboda.org/a/kipr-lishit-grazhdanstva-deripasku-beryozkina-i-kesaeva/31814222.html |work=Радио Свобода.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Опубликован список почти 80 инвесторов, которых лишили гражданства Кипра. Среди них — семь российских миллиардеров. |url=https://meduza.io/news/2024/11/27/opublikovan-spisok-pochti-80-investorov-kotoryh-lishili-grazhdanstva-kipra-sredi-nih-sem-rossiyskih-milliarderov |work=Meduza.}}</ref>
On September 6, 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union dismissed lawsuits filed by Gutseriev and several other Russian businessmen seeking removal from the EU sanctions list.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Суд ЕС подтвердил санкции против Гуцериева и других россиян. |url=https://www.dw.com/ru/sud-es-ostavil-v-sile-sankcii-protiv-gucerieva-i-rada-drugih-rossian/a-66730858 |work=Deutsche Welle}}</ref>
On November 16, 2023, Mikhail Gutseriev filed a new lawsuit challenging the rulings of the General Court of the European Union regarding the sanctions imposed on him.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Пумпянский, Гуцериев, Тимченко обжаловали решение евросуда оставить против них санкции ЕС. |url=https://tass.ru/ekonomika/19350241 |work=TACC}}</ref>
In November 2024, Gutseriev, along with several other Russian oligarchs, was formally stripped of Cypriot citizenship (“golden passport”).<ref>{{Cite news |title=Кабинет министров Кипра лишил российских олигархов «золотых паспортов» |url=https://iarex.ru/news/142204.html |work=Информационное агенство}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=«В числе лишенцев оказались Олег Дерипаска, Алексей Кузьмичёв, Михаил Гуцериев, Михаил Юревич…» |url=https://stolica-s.su/archives/434270}}</ref>
On May 8, 2025, the EU Court rejected Gutseriev’s appeal against the decision to keep him on the Belarus sanctions list.<ref>{{Cite web |title=JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Sixth Chamber) |url=https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=299096&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1}}</ref>
== Personal life == Gutseriev is married and has two sons (Chingiz, Said) and a daughter (Sofya).<ref>https://russneft.ru/i/document/file_path_429.pdf {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref><ref>http://www.pdfbubble.com/mikhail/y9vqrdk6_mikhail_gutseriyev.pdf {{Dead link|date=March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tadviser.com/index.php/Person:Gutseriev_Mikhail_Safarbekovich|title = Mikhail Gutseriev resigned as President of Russneft}}</ref> His elder son Chingiz died from a [[brain hemorrhage]] after crashing his [[Ferrari]] in 2007.<ref name="Kramer">{{Cite news |last=Kramer |first=Andrew E. |date=2007-08-29 |title=Russia issues warrant for former head of Russneft oil company |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/29/business/worldbusiness/29iht-ruble.1.7298400.html |access-date=2022-03-06 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20171214183220/https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-russia-russneft-death/son-of-russian-billionaire-dies-in-car-crash-idUKL248728020070824 Son of Russian billionaire dies in car crash], uk.reuters.com, 24 August 2007</ref><ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/aug/30/russia.lukeharding From Russia with $3 billion. Another Putin opponent may have fled to London]. ''The Guardian'', Thursday 30 August 2007.</ref> Gutseriev's other son, [[Said Gutseriev|Said]], is a businessperson. In 2016, Said held a wedding that reportedly cost $1 billion.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-10-05 |title=Pandora Papers: The secret owners of UK property worth billions |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58792393 |access-date=2022-03-06}}</ref>
The younger brother of Mikhail, Sait-Salam (born 1959) is a businessman. Mikhail transferred his Rossneft stake to Sait-Salam when he was placed under sanctions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Russian billionaire Mikhail Gutseriev transferred RussNeft stake to his brother prior to sanctions |url=https://meduza.io/en/news/2021/08/11/russian-billionaire-mikhail-gutseriev-transferred-russneft-stake-to-his-brother-prior-to-sanctions |access-date=2022-03-06 |website=Meduza |language=en}}</ref>
Gutseriev is involved in poetry writing and song writing.<ref name="вед_07_11">{{Cite web|url=https://www.vedomosti.ru/newspaper/articles/2010/05/19/biznes-po-urovnyu-razvitiya-operezhaet-pravoohranitelnuyu-i-sudebnuyu-sistemy|title="Бизнес по уровню развития опережает правоохранительную и судебную системы"|website=Ведомости|date=19 May 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://literaclub.ru/authors/mikhail-gutseriev.html|title=Гуцериев Михаил Сафарбекович — Стихи, проза, литература в видео. Это новый взгляд на литературу}}</ref>
In 2020 during the pandemic Gutseriev offered Moscow authorities the use of his hotels to fight the coronavirus.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Миллиардер Гуцериев предложил использовать свои гостиницы для борьбы с коронавирусом |url=https://www.forbes.ru/newsroom/milliardery/395969-milliarder-guceriev-predlozhil-ispolzovat-svoi-gostinicy-dlya-borby-s |access-date=2021-02-18 |website=Forbes.ru |date=25 March 2020 |language=ru}}</ref>
In 2022, a joint investigation by the [[Belarusian Investigative Center]], [[Transparency International]] and [[The Guardian]] found several properties in London owned by Said Gutseriev, Mikhail's son. Previously, the property owned by Said was [[List of people named in the Pandora Papers|mentioned]] in the [[Pandora Papers]]. Representatives of the family told reporters that Said has no business ties with his father and that Mikhail has nothing to do with these assets, while at the same time, a significant part of these properties were purchased when Said was still studying and not involved in business.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/24/the-sanctioned-oligarchs-son-and-a-160m-london-property-empire|title=The sanctioned oligarch's son and a £160m London property empire|date=May 24, 2022|accessdate=April 23, 2024|publisher=[[The Guardian]]|author=Jasper Jolly|language=en}}</ref>
== See also == *[[List of Russian billionaires]]
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== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20151016135702/http://www.russneft.ru/eng/about/president/ Official Biography] * [http://www.russneft.ru/eng/ NK Russneft] * [https://www.vedomosti.ru/newspaper/article.shtml?2007/07/30/130109 Article by Gutseriev explaining reasons for leaving Russneft] {{in lang|ru}} {{Privatization in Russia}} {{Authority control}}
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