Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov (Russian: Владимир Александрович Антонов; born 1975) is a (formerly London-based) Russian convicted fraudster who operated under the guise of a banker, entrepreneur and investor. In 2007 Antonov's personal wealth was estimated at $300 million which ranked him as number 182 among Russian millionaires. In 2019 he was sentenced to a penal colony in relation to a conviction for fraud by a Russian court, and was further convicted for separate instances of fraud by a Latvian court in 2021.