Julian Crowley
The man with a monopoly on weapons in Russia was once an undercover KGB agent working in a company in Dresden, in the former East Germany, where his neighbor was a then-obscure fellow agent called Vladimir Putin.
Chemezov now holds high-ranking positions in a number of companies, including a post on the board of directors at aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi (whose total assets reached $859.826 million in 2009).
He is also the Director General at Rosoboronexport, the state-owned company which produces 90 percent of Russia’s annual weapons exports. Guess it’s not what you know, but who you know.
