More recently, about six months ago, the British public was disturbed by a very unpleasant event: not far from Buckingham Palace, less than a kilometer from it, in the very center of London, people with no fixed abode, simply speaking homeless people, captured a huge respectable house on four floors. As it became known, this news is closely related to our country, because our compatriot Andrei Goncharenko turned out to be the owner of the occupied luxury building. We will try to find out today who he is, what he does, how he lives, and where he made his fabulous state, apparently. But to begin with, I would like to immediately make a reservation that there is very little information about this person, so everything that will be described below was collected almost bit by bit.
A bit about the shadow business
Shadow businessmen are those who have a huge multi-million dollar fortune, but do not talk about it at all. They cannot be found on Forbes lists, much less read about how they made their fortunes in newspapers or fashion magazines. All that remains to the general public is conjecture and speculation. So, Andrei Goncharenko is a billionaire who is ranked precisely as a shady one, because his name does not appear on the lists of the richest people in the world, but he can easily afford to buy the most expensive real estate in the world.
In principle, he does this: he buys the best houses and mansions in England.
Biography
Andrei Goncharenko is not a secretive person, he is absolutely classified. Little is known about him catastrophically. Of course, a lot is said about his person, but all this information is based only on the assumptions and guesses of the journalists. There is not a single case where Goncharenko himself commented on certain situations relating directly to his personality.
He is always outside the reach of the press, and all his affairs are decided by authorized representatives. But still, some facts about the oligarch Andrei Goncharenko became known.
Public Information
Here is a list of the most famous facts about the Russian businessman.
- The young man managed to get rich in the 90s of the twentieth century. At that time he was engaged in cargo transportation both in Russia and around the world. Another industry that was taken into circulation by Goncharenko is forestry. He was engaged in the purchase and resale of wood.
- At the beginning of 2000, a promising businessman was able to get a vacant place in Gazprom. Andrei Goncharenko worked there for about 11 years, after which he went, as they say, into free swimming. Since then, everything about his person is hidden behind seven seals. Any information that pops up about the richer Russian only concerns scandals or unpleasant situations. True, only his name appears in this stream of rare news, and the businessman himself is not shown. By the way, it’s worth saying that they started talking about Goncharenko at a time when he worked for the well-known Gazprom corporation. Then he was accused of extorting 3 billion rubles, more precisely, of not paying the company, which was a contractor with the gas giant. However, all the applications were withdrawn, and the case was closed for lack of grounds for its consideration.
Marital status of an oligarch
The businessman is married. Sometimes at charity parties announced by him, a young man can be seen with a charming blonde. According to some reliable sources, this beauty is none other than the wife of Andrei Goncharenko.
Marina, which is exactly the name of the Russian chosen one of the oligarch, works in the field of art: collecting famous paintings and patronizing galleries. By the way, in 2012, at a charity evening of Natalia Vodianova's “Naked Hearts, ” the businessman acquired a painting, the total cost of which was about 800 thousand dollars. However, making an advance payment, Goncharenko assured the organizers that he would soon transfer the remainder of the amount, but there was some kind of hitch. The painting is still in limbo, without an owner, because its full value has not been paid.
Profitable investment
Andrey Goncharenko is the owner of the most prestigious real estate located in England. The cost of all his mansions is a fabulous sum of $ 250 million. We will talk about this wealth in more detail, devoting the whole next block of the article to the topic.
Private property of a shadow businessman and their approximate value
British newspapers and television are indignant, claiming that all the most prestigious buildings located within walking distance of Buckingham Palace are being bought up by billionaires, with most of the new owners coming from the Russian Federation.
Our today's hero has in personal use 4 expensive buildings that are located in the heart of the United Kingdom - in the prestigious Belgravia (Hampton). Real estate prices in this part of London are so high that only a select few can afford to buy houses and mansions here. Andrey Goncharenko was able to become the full owner of four buildings here. The approximate value of his property is estimated at 250 million pounds.
Famous mansions bought by the oligarch
Experts say that Andrei Goncharenko simply invested his money in expensive buildings. He did not aim to use the acquired objects as a place of permanent residence. London is simply the most expensive real estate market that never loses ground. Here is a list of shadow oligarch possessions located in the UK:
- In 2012, the Russian oligarch invested his money in a four-story cottage, which previously housed the Cervantes Institute. The amount of the transaction, according to the estimates of some experts in this matter, was just over 15 million pounds. We will discuss this building below, because it is associated with a wide public resonance six months ago.
- The second mansion Goncharenko acquired for 41 million pounds. He is in Hevtod.
- The next building on the shadow businessman’s real estate list is the May Fair building, which has exceeded £ 70 million.
- Closes the list of the most expensive mansion in England, whose approximate cost is estimated by experts at more than 120 million pounds.
Note that all the houses were bought by Goncharenko from 2012 to 2014. Since then, he has not been seen in them, the buildings are empty. Perhaps this is precisely what caused the incident at the beginning of 2017, about which all the media shouted. The episode is associated with a house that was once the institution of Cervantes.
