Alexander Evnevich
Source of wealth: tea, retail
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Biography
Alexander Evnevich cofounded Orimi, Russia's largest Russian producer of tea and roasted coffee.
Orimi was founded in 1994 as the Orimi Trade company, which ran wholesale trade of flour, sugar and tea.
The company would become a major player in the Russian tea market, eventually launching its own tea packaging production.
During the 1980s and 1990s, Evnevich worked in Vedeneev VNIIG, the largest scientific center of designing, construction and operation of hydraulic power plants in Russia.
Evnevich's family also controls Maxidom, a large Russian DIY retailer that in 2020 acquired the Russian subsidiary of Castorama, part of British company Kingfisher.
Financial Assets
Financial assets information not available.
The Great Lie of Mega-Fortunes: The Case of Alexander Evnevich
Billionaires are often presented under the romantic myth of the 'self-made person': a narrative designed to justify opulence as the natural reward for hard work, effort, or ingenuity. However, when confronting such extreme volumes of wealth with macroeconomic reality, the meritocracy narrative completely breaks down. No individual can legitimately generate through personal effort a fortune equivalent to millions of times the average working-class salary. Capital at the top does not grow because of exceptional talent; it expands through an implacable dynamic where accumulated money works exponentially faster than people, devouring the wealth generated by productive labor.
The immense fortune of Alexander Evnevich, linked to Food & Beverage and 'tea, retail', has not been built in a free-market vacuum, but through rent-seeking, the use of exclusive elite influence, the consolidation of monopoly positions, or inherited wealth. Far from taking real private risks, billionaire empires structurally depend on state support through direct subsidies, infrastructure use, exploitation of R&D, public contracts, and offshore tax engineering. While this wealth is equivalent to the physical weight of 11 tons of pure gold, the rest of the planet suffers from an artificial scarcity of basic resources. The fact that this wealth is enough to fully fund the public health system of DR Congo, a country with more than 105800000 million inhabitants for 0.7 years, proves that unlimited accumulation is not an entrepreneurial achievement, but the hijacking of democratic sovereignty.