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Mr. Kellner, 56, who carefully protected his privacy, owned a group of financial, telecommunications, engineering and insurance companies, PPF, with $ 94,000. workers from all over the world.
“We are very sorry to announce that Peter Kellner, the founder and largest shareholder of the PPF Group, was tragically killed in a helicopter crash at the Alaska landfill on Saturday,” PPF spokeswoman Jitka Tkadlecova told AFP.
“The causes of the disaster, which claimed the lives of a total of five people, are being investigated,” he added.
The Czech media had previously reported that Mr. Kellner had flown in a helicopter to ski in the mountains.
According to Forbes magazine, the value of business assets in 2020 amounted to 293 billion. Czech crowns (11.2 billion euros).
Kellner, who began his career selling photocopiers, founded the PPF group in 1991, two years after the collapse of communism in the former Czechoslovakia.
For this group, with a total asset value of $ 44 billion. Home Credit International, the world’s largest non-bank consumer creditor, operates in the Chinese market.
PPF recently acquired media group CME, which owns dozens of televisions in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the assets of Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor in the Balkans.
Kellner’s daughter, Anna Kellnerova, is a two-time Czech junior show jumping champion and aspires to compete at the Tokyo Olympics this summer.
According to J. Tkadlecova, the funeral of P. Kellner will take place in a “narrow circle of the family.”
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