What is Rinat Akhmetov?
{{Infobox person | name = Rinat Akhmetov | other_names = | native_name = {{nobold|Рінат Ахметов}} | native_name_lang = uk | image = Akhmetov Rinat Leonidovich.jpg | caption = Akhmetov in 2008 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1966|09|21}} | birth_place = [[Donetsk]], [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian SSR]], [[Soviet Union]]<br>{{small|(present-day [[Ukraine]])}} | party = [[Opposition Bloc (2019)|Opposition Bloc]] | death_date = | death_place = | known_for = Owner, [[SCM Holdings|System Capital Management Group]]<br> Owner, [[FC Shakhtar Donetsk|Shakhtar Donetsk]] | occupation = Businessman | title = | term = | boards = | spouse = Liliya Nikolaievna Smirnova | children = 2 }} Rinat Akhmetov is a [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]] businessman from [[Donetsk]]. He is Ukraine’s richest man who fully owns [[DTEK]] through his [[System Capital Management]] company. In 2023 his total worth was about US$5.7 billion.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rinat Akhmetov|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/rinat-akhmetov/|access-date=2023-07-31|website=Forbes|language=en}}</ref> He gave his [[Television channel|television channels]], which had routinely backed opposition politicians, to the [[:Category:Government of Ukraine|government]] in 2022. He has given $158 million privately to the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine|war effort]]. He says [[Vladimir Putin]] is a “[[war criminal]]”. He is [[Lawsuit|suing]] Russia in the [[European Court of Human Rights]] for damage to his business empire.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Sheppard|first=David|date=2023-07-30|title=DTEK’s Maxim Timchenko: ‘If we are crushed, technically or financially, then we would lose this war’|work=Financial Times|url=https://www.ft.com/content/7ed09ccf-e9f5-4bcc-acb8-08653e593152|access-date=2023-07-31}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Akhmetov, Rinat}} [[Category:Ukrainian businesspeople]] [[Category:1966 births]] [[Category:People from Donetsk Oblast]]