Leonid Rozhetskin Леонид Рожецкин |
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Born |
Leningrad, Soviet Union |
August 4, 1966
Disappeared | March 16, 2008 (aged 41) Jūrmala, Latvia |
Status | Found |
Died | 2012 (June or July) |
Body discovered | Latvian Forest |
Nationality | Russian, American |
Citizenship | U.S. |
Education | Harvard Law School |
Alma mater | Columbia University |
Occupation | Lawyer, financier |
Years active | 1990-2008 |
Net worth | "Several hundred million dollars" |
Spouse(s) | Natalya Belova |
Children | 1 son |
Leonid Borisovich Rozhetskin (Russian: Леонид Борисович Рожецкин, born August 4, 1966; disappeared March 16, 2008) was a financier and lawyer who went missing under suspicious circumstances after disappearing from his villa in Jūrmala, Latvia. In 2013, remains found nearby the year before were confirmed to be Rozhetskin's.
Rozhetskin was born in 1966 to a Jewish family in Leningrad, Soviet Union; he and his mother Elvira emigrated to the United States in 1980, where he became a U.S. citizen. Rozhetskin was a "brilliant student", winning scholarships to Columbia University, where he graduated with distinction. In 1990, Rozhetskin graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School.
Rozhetskin received a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from Harvard University, for teaching Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates during the 1989-90 academic year.
Rozhetskin began his legal career as a law clerk for Judge Stephen V. Wilson, a federal judge in Los Angeles, California; he then joined the law firm White & Case.
At the age of 26, Rozhetskin returned to Russia, first as a lawyer at White & Case’s Moscow office, and then as the head of his own law firm, representing clients such as the International Finance Corporation (a division of the World Bank), Credit Suisse, Morgan Grenfell and The Moscow Times.