About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/a67be76f677428691d6c78960f84e664385bf08393ab805ae1bb9262     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:NewsArticle, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

AttributesValues
rdf:type
schema:articleBody
  • Russian billionaire Oleg Tinkov, arrested in London on tax fraud charges, said he plans to dedicate himself to charity work including fighting leukemia, with which he was diagnosed last year. "To be honest, I no longer have the motivation to do business. I'm done; I'm retired," Tinkov, who founded the online bank Tinkoff, was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying on the Clubhouse audio-chat app Sunday. Speaking to an audience of five thousand listeners, the maximum allowed on the platform, the 53-year-old businessman said he wants to remain a shareholder in Tinkoff and a "sort of visionary". He added that he has not been actively involved in the bank's business operations for "five years already". The announcement bookended an eventful year for Tinkov, who revealed he was diagnosed with leukemia in March 2020 shortly after he was arrested in London on charges of tax evasion in the United States. Released on bail, the billionaire is still undergoing treatment for the blood cancer in London, where extradition hearings are underway. On Sunday, Tinkov said that he had "nearly died twice" but now has an "80 percent" chance of survival. He said the Tinkov family is setting up a charitable foundation for blood cancer research. "I am dedicating a huge amount of my money to it... I would like to fundamentally change the hematology and blood cancer system in Russia," Tinkov said. The billionaire noted that he plans to work with centres for bone marrow transplants, a procedure that he underwent last July. Founded in 2006, Tinkoff bank became one of the most successful fintech businesses in Russia, raising over $1 billion after going public on the London Stock Exchange in 2013. It is the third largest bank in Russia behind state-backed giants Sberbank and VTB. In 2020, the Tinkov family reduced their voting rights in the bank to 35 percent after selling a 5.3 percent stake in its parent company for $325 million. They said that up to $200 million of the proceeds will be used to launch Tinkov's leukemia fund. apo-acl/emg/wdb
schema:headline
  • Arrested Russian banker to devote himself to charity work
schema:mentions
schema:author
schema:datePublished
http://data.cimple...sPoliticalLeaning
http://data.cimple...logy#hasSentiment
http://data.cimple...readability_score
http://data.cimple...tology#hasEmotion
Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 5 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software