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Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich (, ; born 24 October 1966) is a Russian businessman, investor and politician. He is the main owner of the private investment company Millhouse LLC. He is best known outside Russia as the owner of Chelsea Football Club, an English Premier League football team. According to Forbes, Abramovich's net worth in 2015 was US$ 9.1 billion (2015),〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Forbes.com )〕 This makes him the 12th richest person in Russia, and the 137th richest person in the world. ==Business career== Roman Abramovich started his multi-billion-dollar business during his army service.〔(Roman Abramovich started his multi-billion-dollar business during army service ). English pravda.ru. Retrieved 3 December 2010. 〕 After a brief stint in the Soviet Army, he married his first wife, Olga. He first worked as a street-trader and then as a mechanic at a local factory.〔. RT (TV network).ru (3 July 2008).〕 At the peak of perestroika, Abramovich sold imported rubber ducks from his Moscow apartment.〔(Roman Abramovich – Russiapedia Politics and society Prominent Russians ). RT (TV network).〕 He attended the Gubkin Institute of Oil and Gas in Moscow (where he sold retreaded car tyres as a sideline), then traded commodities for Runicom, a Swiss trading company.〔(FRONTLINE/WORLD . Moscow – Rich in Russia . How to Make a Billion Dollars – Roman Abramovich ). PBS. Retrieved 3 December 2010.〕 In 1988, as perestroika opened up opportunities for privatization in the Soviet Union, Abramovich got a chance to legitimize his old business.〔. Leadership Biographies (12 February 2010).〕 He and Olga set up a company making dolls. Within a few years his wealth spread from oil conglomerates to pig farms and he also started investing in other businesses. Abramovich set up and liquidated at least 20 companies during the early 1990s, in sectors as diverse as tyre retreading and bodyguard recruitment.〔(The great Roman empire – Analysis, Opinion ). Independent.ie (1 October 2005). Retrieved 3 December 2010.〕〔Weyer, Martin Vander. (The winner of Russia's free-for-all ), ''The Telegraph'' (UK), 31 October 2004. Retrieved 23 April 2010.〕 From 1992 to 1995, Abramovich founded five companies that conducted resale, produced consumer goods, and acted as intermediaries, eventually specializing in the trading of oil and oil products. However, in 1992, he was arrested and sent to prison in a case of theft of government property: AVEKS-Komi sent a train containing 55 cisterns of diesel fuel, worth 3.8 million roubles, from the Ukhta Oil Refinery; Abramovich met the train in Moscow and resent the shipment to the Kaliningrad military base under a fake agreement, but the fuel arrived in Riga. Abramovich co-operated with the investigation, and the case was closed after the oil production factory was compensated by the diesel's buyer, the Latvian-US company, Chikora International. In 1995, Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky, an associate of President Boris Yeltsin, acquired the controlling interest in the large oil company Sibneft. The deal was within the controversial loans-for-shares program and each partner paid US$100 million for half of the company, below the stake's stock market value of US$150 million at the time, and rapidly turned it up into billions. The fast-rising value of the company led many observers, in hindsight, to suggest that the real cost of the company should have been in the billions of dollars.〔Dominic Midgley and Chris Hutchins ''Abramovich. The billionaire from nowhere'' Harper-Collins, 2005 ISBN 978-0-00-718984-7〕 Abramovich later admitted in court that he paid huge bribes (in billions) to government officials and obtained protection from gangsters to acquire these and other assets (including aluminium assets during the aluminium wars).〔(Chelsea owner admits he paid out billions in bribes – Europe, World News ). Independent.ie (5 July 2008). Retrieved 3 December 2010.〕 Thus the main stages of Abramovich's financial career were January 1989 to May 1991, as chairman of the Comfort Co-op (manufacturer of plastic toys), and May 1991 to May 1993, as director of the ABK small enterprise in Moscow. According to various sources, from 1992 to 1995 Roman Abramovich set up five companies engaged in the production of consumer goods and selling-and-buying. In May 1995, jointly with Boris Berezovsky, he set up the P.K. Trust close joint-stock company. In 1995 and 1996, he established another 10 firms: Mekong close joint-stock company, Centurion-M close joint-stock company, Agrofert limited liability company, Multitrans close joint-stock company, Oilimpex close joint-stock company, Sibreal close joint-stock company, Forneft close joint-stock company, Servet close joint-stock company, Branco close joint-stock company, Vector-A limited liability company, which, again together with Berezovsky, he used to purchase the shares of the Sibneft public company.〔(Хостинг-Центр ). ''The Guardian''-psj.ru. Retrieved 3 December 2010. (in Russian)〕 ''The Guardian'' concludes Abramovich's career as follows:〔Levy, Adrian; Scott-Clark, Cathy. ('He won, Russia lost' ), 8 May 2004. Retrieved 23 April 2010.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roman Abramovich」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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