Western ‘theft’ will backfire, Russian tycoon warns

Vladimir Potanin has argued that nations seizing assets only undermine their own investment climates. Vladimir Olegovich Potanin is a Russian billionaire businessman. He acquired his wealth notably through the controversial loans-for-shares program in Russia in the early to mid-1990s. As of August 2022, he was the wealthiest man in Russia and the 38th richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $24.4 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.Wikipedia