Alexander
Alexander Nikitin | |
Born: | 1969 |
Death: | |
Birth Location: | Tallinn |
Father: | xxx Nikitin |
Mother: | yyy Nikitin (maternal name) |
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Education: | Engineering, Tallinn University |
Position: | Businessman (Pipeline, Transport, Arms, Finance) |
Employer: | RPC, RMEB |
Home: | Dubai |
Ties: | Najwa, Viktor |
Alexander was born and raised in Tallinn, Estonia (then USSR) to a Russian sailor and an Estonian mother. He was a 25 year old naval officer when the Soviet Navy scuttled its ships in the Tallinn harbor. During the operation, Alexander led a group of renegade sailors to successfully snatch a ship loaded with military equipment and hid it for several months in a forgotten makeshift German U-Boat base along the Estonia-Latvia border. After repainting and "demilitarizing" the ship, the crew sailed via the Cape of Good Hope to Sri Lanka where they offloaded its cargo. On his way back, Alexander stopped in Dubai for several months where he eventually learned Arabic and met several new clients for his future deals.
Back in Russia, now rich and benefiting from influential OPEC connections, he launched an IPO for a pipeline company which made him an overnight billionaire. His operations profited of several years of steady growth as he became one of Russia's new Oligarch.
When a group of former KGB bureaucrats slowly gained control of Russian politics and economy, he had already moved his financial operations to the Cloud.