Yuri Shefler
ACTUAL TIME TOTAL ASSETS– since 5/8/17
$ 1.75 B.
Yuri Shefler has S.P.I. Team, which generates as well as alcohol under 380 in 160 nations. The firm is signed up in Luxembourg yet its major manufacturing facilities remain in Latvia. Its finest recognized brand is Stolichnaya vodka, which Shefler purchased from state-owned VVO Soyuzplodoimport for $285,000 in 1997. Soyuzplodoimport later on chose it desired the brand back and also taken legal action against. Russia’s High court ruled the sale unlawful in 2001, prohibiting Shefler from marketing the vodka inside its boundaries. He was additionally prosecuted for misappropriation of hallmarks. He left Russia the following year however that really did not quit the Russian federal government from remaining to him. In 2008, he was positioned on an Interpol listing. In 2014, the Netherlands, Luxembourg as well as Belgium signed up with Russia in prohibiting sales of Stolichnaya. In the meantime, the difficulties have not harmed company a lot, inning accordance with . Shefler, at the same time, divides his time in between Terrific Britain, Switzerland as well as any place his luxury yacht Serene, among the biggest worldwide, takes him.
Yury Shefler serves as Chairman of the Board at Soyuzplodimport Joint-Stock Company (a/k/a S.P.I. Group). Mr. Shefler served as a Member of the Council at Latvijas Balzams AS until April 2006. Mr. Shefler was the driving force behind the establishment of the SPI Group. He left the Russian army in September 1987. He started a business career which has included running one of Moscow`s leading shopping malls and heading Vnukovo Airlines. In 1997 he bought a company that became the heart of what has grown into SPI today. He studied at the Russian Academy of Economy