Biography & Early Wealth Journey

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Previously, we reported that a year after marrying Katerina, Kirill was able to buy a 17% stake in Sibur from a friend of his father-in-law. Kirill took a loan out to make the stock purchase. Sibur was valued at $10 billion. Once Kirill's purchase went through, he was revealed to be the second-largest shareholder, with a 21% stake in Sibur. Now it appears he actually only spent $100 on that stake.

The $100 deal came to light in leaked emails. That wasn't the only bonus Kirill got for marrying Katerina. The couple got a $5.4 million mansion in Biarritz as well as a home near Moscow, which cost them $8 million to renovate.

Primary Income Streams & Multi-Million Contracts

Katerina and Kirill divorced in 2018, when he began an affair with a Russian socialite who lives in London. Shamalov's affair with Zhanna Volkova was revealed in 2017, when a photo of her showed her dancing intimately with a mystery man at a Valentine's Day party. Volkova took the precaution of partially obscuring Shamalov's face with an emoji, but what could be seen looked identical to Shamalov.