Under a March 5 post from Dubai, in which Tinkov discusses the path to success in business, user vsmblsleeee asked what the banker thought about the military operation launched by Israel and the United States in Iran.
“Why should I think about this? I think that Putin has crap himself in Ukraine,” Tinkov replied.
In response to a similar request from user aleksandrpetrov1987 for a comment on Iran, the banker mentioned Russia.
“I can talk about Russian, Telegram has been turned off for you“, the businessman recalled.
Context
Forbes Russia in 2023 estimated Tinkov’s fortune at $4.7 billion. He ranked 32nd in the ranking of the richest Russians.
On February 28, 2022, four days after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Tinkov published an anti-war post on social networks. He became the third among Russian dollar billionaires to speak out against the war. Previously, Oleg Deripaska and Mikhail Fridman did this.
At the end of March, in response to Russia's attack on Ukraine, the UK imposed sanctions against Tinkov. In addition, Australia and Ukraine imposed sanctions against Tinkov. In 2023, financial restrictions were lifted from the businessman.
Radio Liberty reported that Tinkov has been living outside the Russian Federation for a long time. Since 1996, in addition to Russian, he had US citizenship, which he renounced in 2013; now the businessman is a citizen of Cyprus. Tinkov renounced Russian citizenship in October 2022.
