Victor Baturin: biography and personal life

Victor Baturin, one of the most famous entrepreneurs of modern Russia, was able to make a brilliant career. He was one of the leaders of the aerospace industry, held a post in the government of Kalmykia, and currently manages about half of the shares of Inteko. However, not all so simple. Victor Baturin was involved in a number of scandals, and his controversial biography is filled with truly amazing facts, which have been described many times in the yellow press. Who is Baturin really? An honest entrepreneur, a fraudster or a man who managed to use the kinship with the wife of the mayor of Moscow?

Start of activity: Inteko

In 1983, Viktor Baturin graduated from the Moscow Institute of Management and immediately got a job at the Sukhoi plant.

1991 was a turning point in the fate of the young man: he took the director position of Inteko, and at the same time his sister, Elena Baturina, played a wedding with Yuri Luzhkov, the future head of the capital. It's no wonder that Inteko company specialized in the production of plastic products, because Luzhkov himself was one of the leaders of the Research Institute of Plastics.

Viktor Baturin himself explains the success of Inteko with a high level of professionalism and quality of products, but journalists have repeatedly pointed out that municipal orders received by the company are too profitable. After the opening, the company acquired its own production, which was created on the basis of the Moscow oil refinery, which, unsurprisingly, under the patronage of the government of Moscow.

Scandal in the Chess Town

Despite all the suspicions, Victor Baturin's career went uphill. In the late 90's, he decided to engage in construction business, acting as a contractor in the construction of the Kalmyk City of Chess. The city, according to the plan of the government, was intended for conducting competitions among grandmasters. However, soon there were accusations that the budget funds allocated for the construction of the City of Chess, are not being spent exactly as they should. Nevertheless, Victor Baturin was lucky again, and instead of getting to the dock, he took up his post in the Kalmyk government. However, the official Viktor Baturin did not stay long: just under one year.

Inteko-Agro

Since 2003, Viktor Baturin and his sister have headed the company Inteko-Agro, which has acquired a lot of land in the Belgorod region. At first things went wrong, but already in 2005, charges began again: law enforcement officials claimed that the company bought up land at a too low cost and subsequently engaged in their resale. However, journalists managed to get to the bottom of the truth: it turned out that the company's activities prevented local authorities from developing one of the local mines.

There were those who really wanted to "remove" unnecessary rivals: in 2003, a number of attempts were made on the lives of the managers of Intec-Agro. The Baturins were frightened for real, and Elena even turned to Vladimir Putin for support, but he did not render any significant assistance to her.

Parting with her sister

In 2006, Elena and Victor decided to "break up": the business was divided into two parts. Victor himself claimed that he left completely voluntarily, however, according to Elena's version, it was decided to remove it from cases due to excessive scandal and conflict, as well as a tendency to appropriate the company's own money. Later, Viktor Baturin himself expressed a third point of view: he told reporters that he was fired illegally.

To restore justice, in 2006 Baturin sued Inteko, demanding to restore it at work and pay 6 billion rubles, which were due to him for his vacation, which he did not use for a whole fifteen years. It is not surprising that the court decided to reject the request.

In 2007, Elena Baturina decided to take a retaliatory move and filed four lawsuits against her brother, demanding that she return some of the companies owned by Victor, as well as compensate damage of 300 million rubles. The judicial debate ended in nothing, and the relatives decided to conclude a peace treaty, the details of which were never published.

Personal life

Victor Baturin was married three times, has four children: two daughters and two sons. And the second marriage of a businessman, more precisely, the divorce, which he ended, was the cause of this scandal. The second wife of Baturin was Yana Rudkovskaya, who claimed $ 5 million in compensation. Annoyed by the sum totaled, Baturin showed carelessness and made very harsh statements about Yana, Dima Bilan, and Evgeni Plushenko. Three offended stars filed suits in court, demanding one and a half million for moral damage, but a decision was made to pay only 50,000 rubles.

Victor Baturin and Yana Rudkovskaya could not share not only money, but also two children. Victor wanted Yana not to have the right to see her sons, but Rudkovskaya was not going to retreat and achieved her own at the cost of incredible efforts. In his interviews, the successful producer claims that the reason that the former spouse forbade her to see her children was solely revenge for wounded male pride.

However, Baturin was not grieving for long: after the divorce he married once again on a model named Ilona. In 2009, the girl gave birth to a daughter from her husband.

For which they put Viktor Baturin

Five years ago, Viktor Baturin once again was in the field of view of law enforcement. He was accused of fraud with real estate. In 2011, Victor was found guilty of all the listed offenses. He was sentenced to three years' imprisonment in custody, and also ordered to pay a fine. Soon a new charge came, this time in a fake promissory notes company Inteko to huge sums. Finally, in 2013, received seven years in prison for his illegal economic activities, one of the most odious personalities of Russia - Viktor Baturin. Where is the entrepreneur now? I think in prison.

Instead of an afterword

Of course, the fate of Victor Baturin can not be called trivial. We can say that this man decided to achieve everything and to be on top of the world, while possessing quite a good start-up capital: not every one can boast of kinship with the richest woman in Russia. However, as is often the case, excessive greed, conflict, and a tendency to scandal. Maybe Baturin can earn money and use any situation for himself, but, unfortunately, he could not solve conflicts peacefully almost never.