Vadim Moshkovich

Vadim Moshkovich was born in 1967 in Moscow

Vadim Moshkovich was born in Moscow in 1967 to a Jewish family. He studied at mathematical school No. 57 in Moscow. In 1992 he graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation.

He entered agriculture in 1995 by importing sugar, and from 1997 to 2003 he bought sugar processing plants. In 2004 he set up Rusagro Group, whose holding company listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2011 and raised about $300 million. He holds 75% of the company.

He also controls the development company Masshtab, which works in New Moscow. In 2013 he gave 307 hectares of land to the City of Moscow for a government center. He funded Letovo School for gifted children and sits on several boards of trustees, including that of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow.

He represented the Belgorod Region in the Federation Council, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, and sat on its Committee on Economic Policy. The European Union placed sanctions on him in 2022. In 2025 he was arrested in Russia on suspicion of large-scale fraud.