Sheriff (company)

Sheriff
Native name
Шериф
Company typeCorporate group
IndustryVarious
Founded24 June 1993 (1993-06-24)
FoundersViktor Gushan
Headquarters,
Area served
Transnistria
Key people
  • Viktor Gushan
  • Dmitry Ogirchuk
OwnerViktor Gushan
Number of employees
13,157[1] (2012)
Websitesheriff.md

Sheriff (Russian: Шериф) is the second-largest company in the unrecognised breakaway state Transnistria, behind Moldova Steel Works. Based in the city of Tiraspol, it was formed in the early 1990s by Viktor Gushan and Ilya Kazmaly, former members of the KGB. Sheriff has grown to include nearly all forms of profitable private business in the unrecognised country, and has even become significantly involved in local politics and sport,[2] with some commentators saying that company loyalists hold most main government positions in the territory. Anatoly Dirun, director of the Tiraspol School of Political Studies, stated that "Viktor Gushan is the person with the most influence here, both in politics and economics."[3][4]

  1. ^ "Экономическая результативность". sheriff.md. Archived from the original on 30 September 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Transnistria 2006: Is Regime Change Underway?". BHHRG online. British Helsinki Human Rights Group. January 2006. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007.
  3. ^ "Crypto and Caviar: The Empire behind Footballing Giant Slayer 'Sheriff'". Balkan Insight. 11 October 2021. Archived from the original on 13 December 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  4. ^ Gershkovich, Evan (27 September 2021). "In Separatist Transnistria, Sheriff Calls the Shots". AFP. Archived from the original on 13 December 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2021 – via The Moscow Times.

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