Boris Romanovich Rotenberg the Soviet Union. In 1992, he became a professional judo trainer in Helsinki. In 1998, he returned to St. Petersburg. In 2001, he and his brother founded the SMP bank, which operates in 40 Russian cities with over 100 branches, more than half of them in the Moscow area. SMP oversees the operation of more than 900 ATM-machines. Based on his friendship with Vladimir Putin, his company became closely aligned with Gazprom. Mr. Rotenberg is a member of the St. Petersburg Connection, a powerful energy lobby under the leadership of Mr. Putin. He was involved in 20 construction projects for
Igor Rotenberg station. At the end of 2016, TPS Real Estate managed 12 shopping center with a total area of over 2 million square meters. In 2016, Igor Rotenberg was at the center of a controversy surrounding , a company he half-owns, and alleged discrepancies in its contracts with the federal road agency, Rosavtodor. Operated by RT Invest, the Platon toll system electronically tracks and charges tolls to trucks over 12 tons on Russian Federal roads. With a 25% ownership by Rotenberg and using satellite tracking data, ScanEx (), a subsidiary of RT Invest, is developing an electronic map of the of