Leonid Dodojonovich Reiman is a Russian businessman and government official, former Minister of Communications and Information Technologies of the Russian Federation. Leonid Reiman has been numerously rated most influential person in Russian telecom business with personal wealth over $1 bln., according to Finance magazine.
Biography
Leonid Reiman was born on 12 July 1957 in Leningrad, his father, Dodojon Tadjiyev, is Tajik and his mother, Ekaterina Reiman, is an Estonian German.
Career
In 1979, Leonid Reiman graduated from the M.A. Bonch-Bruevich Leningrad Institute of Communications Technology.
1979-1983, engineer and then section chief at the Leningrad city international telephone station.
1985-1999, Reiman occupied leading positions in the Leningrad City Telephone Network / in 1993 renamed to St. Petersburg City Telephone Network ;
1988-1999, Deputy Chief of the LGTS/PTS for development; LGTS/PTS Chief Engineer, Director for International Relations, Director for Investitions and International Relations, First Deputy Director-General of Open JSC PTS.
Early 1990s Reiman meets attorney Jeffrey Galmond who becomes an investment assistant to Reiman.
In 1994 he joined the Board of Directors of the JSC Telecominvest.
Lyudmila Putina represents OAO Telecominvest from 1998-1999 in Moscow after her husband the former deputy mayor of St PetersburgVladimir Putin moved from St Petersburg to Moscow in 1997 and later became the Director of the successor to the KGB, the Federal Security Service in July 1998.
Leonid Reiman was appointed Minister of Communications and Information Technologies of the Russian Federation on 20 May 2004, where he served until 12 May 2008.
May 2008 - August 2010 – Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation, Secretary for Presidential Council of Information Society Development
March 2011 - Chairman of the supervisory board of Mandriva
On 25 July 2000, Leonid Reiman issued the order No 130 "Concerning the introduction of technical means ensuring investigative activity in phone, mobile, wireless communication and radio paging networks" stating that the FSB was no longer required to provide telecommunications and Internet companies documentation on targets of interest prior to accessing information. During the early 2004 tax dispute in Russia by Gossvyaznadzor about VimpelCom OJSC and its wholly owned subsidiary Impulse Design Bureau OJSC, Leonid Reiman, as the Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications, stated that it is unclear how taxes are paid by the companies but requested that the two should merge. Megafon increased its market share in the key Moscow region while VimpelCom was held back from expanding into that region awaiting the courts to decide the tax issue. Alfa Group, which has a significant share in Vimpel, was involved in a dispute over ownership of Leonid Rozhetskin's LV Finance former 25% stake in MegaFon with IPOC International Growth Fund during VimpelCom's tax issue with the Russian government. In 2004 the British businessman Anthony Georgiou claimed in a court affidavit lodged in a British Virgin Islands court that in 1992 Reiman had received a bribe of about a million US dollars from him. During a Bermuda government supported audit of IPOC International Growth Fund Ltd's KPMG investigation in 2005, the top official has been named in a number of legal actions as Leonid Reiman, Russia’s telecommunications minister. Mr Reiman has denied the claims. In 2006, the beneficial owner of the IPOC International Growth Fund is Leonid Reiman according to a Zurich ruling by the International Chamber of Commerce. In late 2013, Finnish officials with the National Bureau of Investigation or Keskusrikospoliisi implicated Reiman in a money laundering scheme with Sekom's founder, Andrei Titov, where $11 million were transferred through Sekom to Cyprus Albany Investment and then to the Bermuda IPOC International Growth Fund.
*3rd class - for outstanding contribution to the development of modern information technologies and the creation of the domestic telecommunications network
*4th class - for great contribution to the development of the telecommunications industry of the country and many years of fruitful work
