VOL. 56 ISSUE 6 FEBRUARY 12, 2019 P77
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V Agusta went through an
enormous shift late last year,
and is now under the con-
trol of young Russian investor, Timur
Sardarov. In our two-part interview,
Alan Cathcart sat down with him for a
chat about what lies ahead for MV.
MV Agusta is now Russian-owned
after it was revealed on November
2, 2018, that London-based Russian
investor Timur Sardarov, 36, had
topped up his initial investment made
two years earlier in the historic Italian
trophy brand with another injection of
capital sufficient to give him overall
control of the company.
Moscow-born Sardarov moved
to England in 2003, and with two
children recently born there, London
remains his home. His oligarch father
Roman is one of the 500 richest men
in Russia, his fortune derived from the
Comstar Energy Group, one of the
country's largest oil and natural gas
companies.
Timur Sardarov founded a UK-
based private jet airline business in
2005, which he sold in 2013 in order
to concentrate on his capital venture
business Black Ocean Investment,
which he founded in 2006 in conjunc-
tion with British partner Oliver Ripley.
In 2016 he met Giovanni Casti-
glioni, and as an MV Agusta owner al-
ready with a Dragster RR amongst his
other bikes, including three Harleys
(a Sportster, a Softail, and a Fat Boy),
and a Ducati Diavel, the two hit it off,
BY ALAN CATHCART
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MV AGUSTA
MV Agusta's
Russian Relaunch
