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Roman Trotsenko is the founder Aeon Corporation, which had interests in airports, coil mining, property development and river ports.
In 2024 Trotsenko sold Aeon in parts to his lieutenants; his wealth is now derived largely from Novaport, which owns 22 regional airports in Russia.
In 2022 he bought coal producer Vorkutaugol from Alexey Mordashov, a fellow Russian billionaire, and RostAgro, one of the country's biggest agricultural companies. He eventually sold both assets.
At age 21 he became the finance director of International Medical Exchange, a trading platform for medical equipment and drugs, which is now defunct.
According to Trotsenko, he made his first million dollars when he was 22 years old.
Trotsenko financed contemporary art center Winzavod, which his wife founded.
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The Great Lie of Mega-Fortunes: The Case of Roman Trotsenko
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 Roman Trotsenko, linked to Logistics and 'Transport, engineering, real estate', 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 26 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 1.6 years, proves that unlimited accumulation is not an entrepreneurial achievement, but the hijacking of democratic sovereignty.