| Bidzina Ivanishvili ბიძინა ივანიშვილი |
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| 10th Prime Minister of Georgia | |
| In office 25 October 2012 – 20 November 2013 |
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| President | Mikheil Saakashvili Giorgi Margvelashvili |
| Preceded by | Vano Merabishvili |
| Succeeded by | Irakli Garibashvili |
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| Born | 18 February 1956 Chorvila, Soviet Union (now Georgia) |
| Political party | Georgian Dream (2012-2013) |
| Spouse(s) | Ekaterine Khvedelidze |
| Children | Uta Bera Gvantsa Tsotne |
| Alma mater | Tbilisi State University Moscow State University of Railway Engineering |
| Religion | Georgian Orthodoxy |
| Net worth |  US$5.2 Billion (2015 Forbes) |
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Bidzina Ivanishvili (Georgian: ბიძინა ივანიშვილი, also known as Boris Ivanishvili; born 18 February 1956) is a Georgian businessman and politician who was Prime Minister of Georgia from 25 October 2012 to 20 November 2013. He founded and led the Georgian Dream coalition, which won the 2012 parliamentary election.[1] After the 2013 presidential election, he voluntarily resigned both his government and party positions, naming his long-time associate Irakli Gharibashvili as his successor.
In March 2010, Ivanishvili was granted French citizenship. In October 2011, he was deprived of his Georgian citizenship “according to Article 32 of the Georgian Law on Citizenship”, shortly after he had announced his intention to form a political party to challenge Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.
In March 2012, Ivanishvili was ranked at number 153 in Forbes magazine’s annual list of the world’s billionaires with an estimated worth of $6.4 billion, making him Georgia’s richest person.
- Georgia’s richest man Bidzina Ivanishvili made his money in metals and banking in Russia then cashed out and moved back home in 2003.
- Ivanishvili was elected prime minister of Georgia in October 2012.
- Thirteen months later he stepped down after his party won the presidential elections, saying he’d fulfilled his task.
- He entrusted about $1 billion to Credit Suisse but more than $100 million of that sum was apparently stolen by the bank’s manager Patrice Lescaudron.
- Lescaudron was found guilty in February 2018 and sentenced to five years in prison.
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