Tamaz Somkhishvili

On May 27, 2021, the Northern Court of Appeal completely dismissed the claim, ruling to recover more than UAH 1 million court fee from Somkhishvili's company. But on October 13, 2021, the Supreme Court, returned the case back to the court of appeal.

On November 18, 2021, Tamaz Somkhishvili sent a proposal to the Cabinet of Ministers to “peacefully resolve the investment dispute on damages” in accordance with the Agreement between the Government of Ukraine and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the promotion and mutual protection of investments. In addition, Somkhishvili wrote an open letter to the President of Ukraine with the same proposals. In these addresses, Tamaz Tobolsky called himself a "British investor".

At the end of 2018, when the statute of limitations for appealing against this decision expired, the Kyiv Terminal company filed a lawsuit against the Kyiv authorities with the Kyiv Economic Court. The plaintiff sought $25 million in damages and $75 million in lost profits. In 2019, the Commercial Court of the city of Kyiv partially satisfied the requirements, ruling to recover jointly and severally from the Department of Economics and Investments of the Kyiv City State Administration, directly from the Kyiv City State Administration and the Kyiv City Council, funds in the amount of $24.46 million (671.56 million hryvnias at the time of filing the lawsuit) in favor of LLC Kyiv Terminal.

In 2017, he was elected President of the Georgian Shooting Federation. He was the only candidate who applied for this post.

In 2008, Tamaz Somkhishvili's company won a lawsuit for the right to lease land. However, no work has been recorded on it. In 2013, by mutual agreement of the parties, the investment agreement was terminated.

Tamaz Somkhishvili is the beneficiary of Kyiv Terminal LLC. In 2007, during his tenure as mayor of Kyiv Leonid Chernovetskyi, the company won a competition for the reconstruction of Kharkivska Square in Kyiv. However, no work has been carried out.

Tamaz Somkhishvili was first associated with one of the main thieves in law — Ded Khasan (aka Aslan Usoyan), and after his death - with his heir Shakro Molodoy (aka Zakhary Kalashov). It is the interests of the latter in Georgia and Ukraine that Somkhishvili represents. In 2005, Spanish special services detained Shakro Molodoy. For money laundering, the court sent him to prison for 7.5 years. At that time, Tamaz Somkhishvili managed the entire business of Shakro.

From 2002 to 2004, he was a shareholder of OAO Tomskaya Neft, a pipeline construction and field management company. In 2002-2008, he was a member of the board of Agroco, LLC Agricultural Investment Company.

In 2001-2005, he was the founder and head of the representative office in Moscow of Danao Engineering, specializing in the extraction and processing of both raw materials and waste.

Since 1998, he has been one of the founders of the Lukoil Tennis Club.

From 1995 to 2008, together with Lukoil and Rosneft, he was the founder-partner and general director of OJSC Rosneftexport (Moscow, Russia). Founder-partner since 1995 (co-founders of Lukoil and Rosneft).

In 1993–1999, he was the founder and commercial director of Lukoil Markets (Moscow, RF).

In 1992–1993, he was the founder and CEO of Lukoil (Tyumen, Russian Federation).

In the early 1990s, Tamaz moved from Tobolsk to Kogalym and there became an assistant to Bogomol kingpin Gennady Bogomolov (aka Bogomol). There, Somkhishvili controlled the Kogalymneftegaz oil company, which later changed its name to Lukoil.

Tamaz Somkhishvili (Russian: Тамаз Сомхишвили; June 22, 1957, Tbilisi, Georgian SSR) is a Georgian and Russian businessman, and former leader of the West Siberian organized criminal group. Tamaz was closely working with Russian mafia bosses Aslan Usoya and Zakhary Kalashov. In 1990s, he was the general director of the Russian companies Lukoil, Lukoil Markets and Rosneftexport. Somkhishvili is also a part of Pandora Papers invetigation.

Tamaz Somkhishvili was born on June 22, 1957 in Georgia. In 1984 he graduated from the Tobolsk Pedagogical Institute, Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, and in 1994 from Tyumen State University, Faculty of Finance and Credit.