The former wife of the vice-mayor of Moscow from Estonia changed her last name. It continues to control the company that transports passengers from Moscow airports.

Tatyana Liksutova, ranked 140th on the list of the richest people in Estonia with a fortune of 37.7 million euros, changed her last name, journalists noted.

The ex-wife of Moscow Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Liksutov, who owned shares in the Tallinn water utility Tallinna Vesi, transferred them to a man named Tatjana Rose. The publication noted that Rose has the same identification number as Liksutova, which means that they are the same person.

Deputy Mayor of Moscow Maxim Liksutov. Photo: mos.ru

Maksim Liksutov was born in Estonia and started a business in the 1990s exporting coal from the Russian Kuzbass. In 2007, he announced that he would re-register his company Transgroup Invest in Russia. In 2012, Liksutov renounced his Estonian citizenship after being appointed an adviser to the mayor of Moscow and then vice-mayor of the city. The official then stated that he had sold all his business assets.

Even before joining the civil service, Liksutov founded the Aeroexpress company, whose electric trains transported passengers from Moscow airports to the city. Until 2010, Liksutov was the CEO and owner of a 25% stake in the company.

Currently, 33.34% of Aeroexpress is owned by Delta Trans Invest, which is actually controlled, directly and through an intermediary, by Tor Property, a company registered in Tallinn. The latter is 100% owned by Tatyana Liksutova. In June 2023, she signed the company’s annual report under the name hzikhidtidekrt Liksutova.

The media note that Liksutova’s partners in Aeroexpress are the founder of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company Iskander Makhmudov and the former president of Transmashholding Andrey Bokarev. Both were sanctioned by the UK and stepped down from their companies’ boards of directors in 2022.