Once the meeting last week between the US and Russian Negotiation of the US, a member of Moscow’s Delegation of a Crown Charce Mohammed Mohammed Bin Salman.
It is Kirill Dmitriev, the Russian Leadership leader of Russia, described smiling and chatting with the Kingdom leader.
An educated US-educated Goldman Sachs Banker, with no formal diplomatic role in time, Ditsriev cuts an unexpected Russian member members of Roigning Minister Sergei Lavrov.
But it is not Dmitrieev’s official role as built Russia in the Gulf and his long-term relations with the Crown Prince as a role to go to talks, the US team says.
Dmmitriev remains both entered in the international financial world and a regular of Halls of Kremlin. He works well with sovereign funds in the middle of the east. He was reported, in the past, talking with the main players around Donald Trump.
“We’ve experienced from someone in Russiawhom you know. Kirill, “Steve Witkoff, a member of the US delegation, told Trump’s son Kusher Kusher in Riyadh’s negotiations in Riyadh.” That’s a lot of parts that are engineered by his highest mohammed bin Salman . ”
He did not specify that it was Dmitriev. The head of the Sovereign Funds in Russia in Russia Vladimir Putin And Trump with organizing talks and not comment on any role he can play with effort. “The important role here is the presidents and their goodness, I say, not equal instructions,” says Dmitriev.
Witkoff said securities from Saudi Arabian’s side then brought his own Russian trip in the early February and the release of the US Detainee Mark Fogel. “They assured us that it was true, with real reality of Kirill and what he said could happen,” Witkoff said.
On Sunday, Ditmiev has formally appointed Putin’s special envoy for investing and economic recovery with foreign countries.
Dmitriev, 49, leading Russian Direct Pwestment Fund since its construction in 2011 as a vehicle for attracting International Investment in Russia. At RDIF geared in its first years to investment from the US, he was well placed to lead Kremlin’s new $ 10bn fund.
Born in Kyiv but educated to Stanford and Harvard Business School in the US, with McKinsey Stints and Goldman Equity in Moscow, a branch of US government funds in Russia.
But Russia’s annexing annex in 2014 and a large penalty – including state company developments before funding – led the more interest. Many billions of Wall Street and famous asset managers have moved away from RDIF Advisory.
Focus is moved to other markets, and Dmitriev has always shown the Moscow dealings with the Gulf, including participation in Russian negotiations to balance the oil supplies through Opec +.
Politics and talking requires hand-in-hand, a former RDIF employee said, and “to track Saudi, he is always one”.
“He made an important function as an intermediary of various players in the Gulf Monarchies,” Carnegie experts Alexandra Prokopenko. “He knows the Sheikhs, he knows who has money and what is interest.”
Of 2022, in the launch of Russia its full measure Promoting UkraineThe Adyat’s Easyat funds with more than two-thirds of all the proceedings of foreign Russian governments, according to global swf analysis.
But the structure of the RDIF deals, which the DMUMiveV reports in Putin, never fully performed the public. The fund says it brings more than $ 26bn amount of economic investment in Russia, but “we only know Rdif’s actions from Rdif’s own words of Rdif” the investment strategy is not transparent, and RDIF invests active Pr. ”
An employee of one of the Gulf funds working with RDIF in the past that these investment bankers are professionals and the deals are strong. Dmitriev is also associated with Moscow working behind the scenes to secure Michael Calvey’s release, a large US investor in Russia, from catching after his arrest in Russia.
The business of the Gulf of the Gulf of Ditseriv also leading contacts with Trump’s Circle, according to the US’s special advice that Robert Mueller’s Russian report selected the 2016 election.
Dmitriev examined his contacts with the United Arab Emirates, a country that invested in RDIF, to establish a connection to the first Trump administration, reported by Mueller. The US special advice has not concluded that these contacts brought any unlawful.
Asked when contacts contacts the main players around Trump contributed to the meeting this month of Riyahiv, Dmitriev said no one else commented.
“Everything I can say is that if you look, I have always favored US-Russian development,” says the phone, saying through the phone from Riyadh.
Dmitriev told the financial period that negotiations were building a separate track to run with political negotiations to focus on business deals. “Within the delegation of Russia, I am responsible for economic investment projects and investment bridges,” he said. “Both sides are interested in finding joint economic projects.”
Dmitriev told us Riyadh of $ 324bn lost to US companies as a result of withdrawal from the Russian market.
However, the KSE Institute, a un-antical center of Kyiv School of Economics, says US companies have $ 52bn of Russian assets before the full-scale invussion in 2022.
The RDIF says the numbers “based on the announced mails-off of Russian properties and assessing the foregon fair market made by the asset”.
Wealth funds bosses have a very long time with Putin’s family. His wife Natalia Popova, remained Deputy Director of InnoPractor, the Technology foundation of Yekaterina Tikhonova, Putin’s child. Dmitriev is also on board with a primary petrochemicals company where the Tikhonova has been a senior executive.
Rdif staff said that while building his network abroad, at home Dmitriev is “a more difficult manager” and a perfectionist “.
“All horrors you will find in books in detail the lives of Wall Street, we have all,” said a man, asking to remain unknown to their former employers. “People are burned… Life is strong.” Dmitriev and RDIF do not comment on the work culture.
Putin entrusted his Sovereign Leader of the Force Fund with many key projects, including CORD-19 pandemic, if the biologists of Coronmaavirus and Chief of Coronavirus in Russia.
Dmitriev is very proud of the sputnik vaccine he has inocated themselves. He also asked the staff to see the scientists behind the Russian vaccine ahead for the Nobel Prize, the two people said.
On Monday, Dmitrieve launched an X Account to mark his new paper as a special Envoy of the negotiation team. “Russia is open,” he said, in the new US-Russian business business.
Antoine Gara’s further report in Miami