Background
Shalva Chigirinsky was born in 1950 in Kutaisi.
Shalva Chigirinsky was born in 1950 in Kutaisi.
He graduated from the Moscow Medical Academy.
He is now divorced and has six children. In 1990s in became a major shareholder of Sibir Energy, a London-listed Russian oil company. In 2009, the company sued Shalva Chigirinsky for at least United States$325 million for a failed bid to sell his real estate assets to the company.
He faces several other lawsuits in different jurisdictions.
His stake in the company was taken over by Sberbank, pledged as loan collateral. There is an investigation concerning alleged tax evasion by Chigirinsky.