Yury Lopatinsky, also known as Lopatynskyy (as recorded in several Commercial Registers of Companies) is Ukrainian-born American (and more recently also a Brit), who made his initial wealth comprising of millions of dollars (at the time when he was merely surviving on his modest salary) back in 1998 while living in Moscow and employed by Creditanstalt, a subsidiary of Bank Austria (subsequently acquired by Raiffeisen Bank). The very sizeable amount of money gained in 1998 came about without making any investment at all, but rather by defrauding Russia Growth Fund, in which world chess champion, Grandmaster Gary Kasparov, was an investor.
