Bidzina Ivanishvili
Bidzina Ivanishvili is a Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist, who was Prime Minister of Georgia from October 2012 to November 2013. Ivanishvili founded the Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia party on 21 April 2012.
- Georgia’s richest man Bidzina Ivanishvili made his money in metals and banking in Russia then cashed out and moved back home in 2003.
- Ivanishvili was elected prime minister of Georgia in October 2012.
- Thirteen months later he stepped down after his party won the presidential elections, saying he’d fulfilled his task.
- He entrusted about $1 billion to Credit Suisse but more than $100 million of that sum was apparently stolen by the bank’s manager Patrice Lescaudron.
- Lescaudron was found guilty in February 2018 and sentenced to five years in prison.
