Patokh Chodiev

Patokh Chodiev is an Uzbek-born Belgian businessman, born in 1953, who co-founded the Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC), a major mining and natural resources company. Together with partners Alexander Machkevich and Alijan Ibragimov, he built the business from natural resource investments in Kazakhstan in the mid-1990s, taking ENRC public on the London Stock Exchange in 2007; the group later became the Eurasian Resources Group (ERG). His net worth has been estimated at around $1.8 billion.