(b. May 1953, Berlin) is a representative of the Liechtenstein based "Crown Finance Foundation" and a director with the Gibraltar based "CTF Holdings" which, in 2013, had $60 billion investments from Mikhail Fridman's Alfa Group and is close to both Petr Aven's Alfa-Bank and Alexey Kuzmichev. His numerous very controversial business interests were revealed in April 2013: he is a director of Ventrelt Holdings, A Common Holdings Limited, Altima Holdings Limited, and A2 Investive Limited, and a manager of Ola Holdings Limited which are all based in Tortola; and a manager of Eco Telecom Limited which is based in Gibraltar. In 2002, "Crown Resources", a company that has Alexey Kuzmichev as its director and is associated with Franz Wolf, Mikhail Fridman, Alfa Group, German Khan, and Alfa-Eco, which became A1 in 2006, chartered a singled walled 26 year-old Bahamian flagged tanker "Prestige" which was laden with 77,000 tons of heavy fuel oil on-loaded at both St. Petersburg, Russia, and Ventspils, Latvia, but sank off the Galician coast of Spain spilling 20,000 tons of its petroleum cargo along the Spanish coast.