Archive:Miroslav Mišković

Miroslav Mišković (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирослав Мишковић) (born July 5, 1945 in Kruševac, Serbia) is a Serbian businessman, the owner of the Delta Holding company, considered to be the richest person in Serbia, with his wealth estimated at approximately $1.4 billion, as of 2005, according to the list of 100 wealthiest persons of the post-communist countries, made by Polish magazine Wprost.[1] Mišković holds 30th place of this list, but is on the second place among the tycoons outside former Soviet Union, behind Jan Kulczyk from Poland.

Mišković is born in Kruševac, where he had graduated, before moving to Belgrade, where he gained his faculty diploma in economy in 1971. Afterwards, he has worked in Jugobanka and Trajal in Kruševac until 1977, when he moved to Župa Chemical Industries, where he became financial director in 1984 and the chief executive of the company in 1987, and he had remained on this position until 1990, when he became a vicepresident of the Serbian government, but has remained on this position for only six months. Meanwhile, Mišković has founded Delta M company (Delta M being a sort of abbreviation of his initials - double M), a company that became very successfull in the following years, during Yugoslav wars and under the regime of Slobodan Milošević. Soon afterwards, he has founded Delta Bank (sold to Banca Intesa in 2004), that was to become the first part of Mišković's extremely successfull Delta Holding corporation that works in agribusiness, retail, distribution, financial brokerage, real estate development and insurance.

Mišković was kidnapped April 9, 2001, but was released the next day, as the ransom money (estimated at about 7,000,000 German marks at the time) was payed 18 hours later. Mišković's connection to Slobodan Milošević was never obvious, except for the fact that he was a vice-president of the Government. After the overthrow of Milošević's regime, Mišković was linked to Dušan Mihajlović, the minister of police at the time and the other leaders of Democratic opposition of Serbia. Mišković is today considered to be an important political figure with high influence on the leading politicians in Serbia.

External links

Mišković's biography at B92.net (in Serbian) Mišković's biography at Serbian Business Club.co.yu (in Serbian) biography at Vreme.com (in Serbian) Template:Serbia-bio-stub Template:Business-stub