[1] He is known to be close to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova and her husband Viktor Khristenko.
Along with his partner, Egor Kulkov, Kharitonin listed the firm on the London Stock Exchange in 2008, but then they brought it back into private hands in 2016.
[3] In November 2021, Kharitonin and Kulkov acquired TSS group, an equipment manufacturing firm serving oil producers through Augment Investments.
[1] Kharitonin also owns the Nürburgring race track in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate and is in talks to buy the nearby bankrupt Frankfurt–Hahn Airport.
[6][7] However, Kharitonin allegedly avoided the sanction by relocating his firm Augment Investments, in which he has majority ownership, to Oktyabrsky Island from Cyprus, utilizing the Special Economic Region scheme of Russia.