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  1. External_Tangelo on

    1. Kazakh banks and fintech empire

    2. Georgian state capture, real estate empire, agro products empire, supermarkets and more. Formerly Gazprom, pharmacies, metals, and other businesses in Russia 

    3. MagtiCom and Shevardnadze family wealth

    4. MagtiCom, Liberty Bank, Georgian Cement, Rustavi Steel. Formerly Imedi TV

    5. CocaCola and McDonalds franchises

    6. Aversi

    7. Silknet, Silk Road Group (real estate empire)

    8. PSP, former MP for both GD and UNM

    9. Telasi, Tbilisi Energy

    10. Gorgia

  2. magical-cat-here on

    I guess Bidzina wil sue Forbes out of envy to remove Mikheil Lomtadze to put self on 1st position.

  3. AncientGuess2434 on

    Mikheil Lomtadze doesn’t own any assets in Georgia, he’s just a Georgian citizen. Technically, Bidzina is the richest person in Georgia.

  4. nick_defiler on

    I used to work with Gia Gorgoshadze (not in Gorgia), and I get why some former Gorgia employees might dislike him. But from my own experience, the guy is a man’s man.
    During COVID, when I was completely broke, he helped me bury my grandmother. He also forgave a lot of my screw ups including me bringing in some former friends who ended up stealing diesel from a company vehicle and wrecking it.
    We were involved in agribusiness together, and honestly, he wasn’t even focused on profit. We were experimenting with ecological solutions for wheat, and he’s one of the people behind preserving Georgian wheat varieties like Doli wheat and Tsiteli Doli wheat, which are protected by UNESCO. No credit taken for that either we were planting them across large areas, like 400 hectares.
    I also saw him help a guy in Nigoza who was being pressured by business rackets to sell his almond orchard for half its value. Instead of taking advantage, he brought in lawyers and helped the guy keep his land.
    So yeah, I have a lot of personal respect for him. From what I’ve seen, a lot of the rumors don’t match reality. Not saying he’s perfect, but the picture people paint feels off.
    Also, Gorgia isn’t even his main income he’s got factories in Turkey and a larger hypermarket chain in Europe.