Lubov Chernukhin
Lubov Chernukhin (née Golubeva; born November 1972) is a former investment banker born in the USSR. She is the largest female political donor in British history having donated over £2 million to the Conservative Party. Biography. Chernukhin left the USSR for the USA as a teenager. She was educated on the U.S. East Coast, receiving a master’s degree from the NYU Stern School of Business. Chernukhin moved to the UK in 1999. Her career as an investment banker has included roles at several major international banks, including America's JP Morgan and Holland's ABN Amro . Aside from her philanthropic work, Chernukhin acts as a VC Investor and is listed as a director of UK property firm Capital Construction And Development Ltd. In 2007, she married Vladimir Chernukhin, former deputy minister of finance in Mikhail Kasyanov’s government and former chairman of Russian state development corporation Vnesheconombank. In 2004, Vladimir was forced to flee to the UK from Russia after President Putin dismissed Prime Minister Kasyanov and began campaign of harassment against his associates. During 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis, in reaction to 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Chernukhin publicly condemned "all Russian military aggression in Ukraine  and urged for the strongest possible sanctions against Putin's regime and its enablers". British Conservative Party. Chernukhin is a member of the Conservative Party's Advisory Board for significant donors. In a February 2022 investigation "The Times" alleged that Chernukhin had repeatedly lobbied government ministers "against raising the tax burden on high net-worth individuals" and sent ministers research from Ernst and Young "on the importance of the ultra-rich for the overall economy" while a member of the Advisory Board. The majority of Chernukhin's donations to the Conservative Party came after her husband was given $8  million by Russian billionaire and Vladimir Putin ally Suleyman Kerimov through an offshore company in 2016. Kerimov's involvement with the Chernukhin was revealed in the FinCEN files leak.