According to Forbes, as of April 2021, his fortune is estimated at $1,600 million in 2020, making him the 60th richest businessperson in Russia.
Alexander is a large commercial real estate developer and owns KR Properties and the Karat cheese factory in Moscow.
[2] Mass media allege him of being a major corporate raider, getting hold of plots of land by using complicated juridical schemes within land-use conflicts.
[3] Novye Izvestia newspaper 2021 published a report disclosing schemes involving land where the Russian business centre of the Swedish Ikea company has resided for decades.
[10] In 2021 Klyachin's company Gleden Invest signed a memorandum with the state corporation VEB on cooperation within a wide pool of tourism cluster development projects in Siberia, the Far East and the North Caucasus.
[15] In 2021 Klyachin has been appointed board chairman of Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center.