Originally Syndicated on April 19, 2023 @ 11:01 am
Elena Alexandrovna Likhach is a socialite and the wife of the Solntsevo authority from the dashing nineties, and now a well-known politician and successful businessman Andrei Skoch.
What is known about the wife of one of the richest people in Russia according to Forbes magazine, whose net worth is estimated at $6.3 billion?
Beautiful, bright and smiling. 49-year-old (or 47-year-old, according to some sources) Elena Likhach is from the Brest region. There is very little information from her biography, because behind her husband she is like behind a stone wall. After all, her husband Andrei Skoch is far from being an ordinary person, but more on that later. It is known that previously Likhach was already married and had one daughter from her first marriage. Now she is a mother of many children.
Elena Alexandrovna is a frequenter of social events not only in Russia itself, but also abroad. So, for example, regular parties that she throws in a luxurious country mansion in Sardinia are especially popular in the media.
She loves to defile in expensive elegant dresses along the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival, where she always arrives on her own luxury yacht. By the way, she parks her ship near the trendy Eden-Roc Hotel, where Hollywood stars like to stay.
Elena makes friends with famous ladies. For example, a socialite often sees his wife Flavio Briatore, the famous film actress Nicole Kidman, etc.
For her frequent travels around the world, a glamorous lady uses a personal A-320 aircraft. This is an exclusive liner, because inside the cabin it is simply strewn with precious stones. Such a gift to his beloved wife from her husband for the birth of heirs. By the way, this is not the only present of its kind. There were also diadems with diamonds and other luxurious gifts. This is not a bouquet of roses with balloons under the maternity hospital. Ordinary people never dreamed of such a thing.
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What is known about the husband of Elena Likhach
Andrey Skoch, 56, is from a village in the Moscow region. He is a politician with many years of experience, a State Duma deputy from United Russia. In addition to his political career, Andrey Vladimirovich is a successful entrepreneur. A.V.Skoch is a co-owner of the closed joint-stock company Gazmetall and Metallinvest. In addition, the entrepreneur heads the expert council in the field of metallurgy and mining.
According to the information resource “Declarator”, the declared income of Andrei Vladimirovich over the past year amounted to more than 608 million rubles. He also owns real estate, with a total area of almost 2.5 thousand square meters and one car.
But the entire business and other property is recorded on his father Vladimir Skoch and daughter Varvara.
According to the well-known Forbes publication, Andrey Skoch is a dollar billionaire. Journalists estimated his fortune this year at 6.3 billion dollars.
About sanctions and business
Andrey Skoch is under the sanctions of many countries: the EU, the United States of America, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Ukraine, Japan.
But Elena Alexandrovna herself has so far managed to avoid getting into these sanctions lists.
It is worth noting that some sites indicate that this couple is divorced, but…
Analysts also note that Elena Likhach owns assets that may come from an illegal profitable source.
She is the ex-co-owner of AV Holding LLC. She owned 75% of the company.
Now these 75% belong to the husband’s father, pensioner Vladimir Nikitovich Skoch.
The status capital of this limited liability company is 984 million rubles. Over the past year, the organization received revenue in the amount of 2.5 billion rubles. It has more than tripled in a year. The profit amounted to 1.8 billion, and the value of the total assets of AV Holding LLC is 8.4 billion rubles.
The couple have a luxurious family 99-meter yacht “Madame Gu”. There is even an enclosed helicopter hangar. How do you like this vehicle? Forbes magazine estimated its cost at 135 lam bucks.
This is not all the property and business of this couple …
What is known about the past of Andrei Skoch: is Elena Likhach’s husband a crime boss?
It turns out that Andrei Skoch has something to hide. He is the former leader of the Solntsevo OPG. He even had his own nickname “Scotch”.
Although in the media he categorically denies his connection with the criminal world and is trying in every possible way to clean up the Internet from any mention of his scandalous past from the dashing nineties. He is also referred to as Usmanov’s “purse man.
Here is one of the rare photographs proving the involvement of A.V. Skoch in the Solntsevo United Criminal Group.
According to the publication “Wikikompromat”, Andrey Skoch has been working a lot over the past years to clean up the negative in the information space that connects him with the Solntsevo organized criminal group. The FSB called Scotch one of the leaders of this group. And the counterintelligence officers claimed that he, along with the brothers Kvetny and Baranovsky, headed the organized criminal group, which was engaged in the criminal arms smuggling business in the 90s.
You can talk about the inglorious criminal past of Elena Likhach’s husband for a very long time, but this is not about today.
As you can see, in such a difficult time for the country, the wife of crime boss Elena Likhach lives very, very comfortably.
To be continued.
