In the annual rating of the richest Russian heirs, according to Forbes, a new participant got – Olga Litvinenko, the daughter of the rector of the Mining University, scientific adviser Vladimir Putin and a minority shareholder of Phosagro Vladimir Litvinenko.
Forbes placed the girl in 16th place. According to the compilers of the rating, the fortune that Olga Litvinenko could theoretically inherit from her father exceeds $ 3 billion. Litvinenko himself is on the 40th line of the list of the richest Russians according to the business publication.
“It is not clear whether she will receive anything. Back in 2011, Olga quarreled with her father and left Russia, he then turned to the Investigative Committee with a statement about her abduction, ”Forbes notes. The daughter of Olga Litvinenko stayed with her grandfather, since then her mother has repeatedly tried to return her. <Read more about this story in Olga's interview with The Insider>.
Abroad, Olga publicly criticized the Russian authorities, attended the Free Russia Forum in Lithuania, and also announced that Mikhail Khodorkovsky had joined Open Russia.
The rise of Litvinenko's own career began with a Ph.D. thesis, which, according to his daughter, he assembled for Vladimir Putin in the late 1990s from pieces of other people's texts. He then secured degrees for several more members of the Russian elite—Viktor Zubkov, Igor Sechin, Rem, and Yury Vyakhirev—all of whom suddenly became specialists in mineralogy. Thanks to this, and also with the help of the billionaire Vyacheslav Kantor, whom Swiss intelligence considers connected with the Russian special services and the underworld, Litvinenko became a dollar billionaire and, according to the former Yukos lawyer, one of the beneficiaries of the defeat of the empire of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. According to his own daughter, Litvinenko became the richest rector of Russia, not least due to fraud with land and luxury real estate. Read more about it here .