Tamaz Valeryanovich Somkhishvili (Russian: Тамаз Сомхишвили; June 22, 1957, Tbilisi, Georgian SSR) is a Georgian and Russian businessman. In 1990s, he was the general director of the Russian companies Lukoil, Lukoil Markets and Rosneftexport. Somkhishvili is also a part of Pandora Papers invetigation. He is one of the richest people in Georgia. He is accused of organizing criminal schemes in Kyiv and Odesa related to the confiscation of land from municipal ownership. In the end of 2022, it was revealed through several journalist investigations that Somkhishvili's company in Georgia is a contractor for the Russian Ministry of Defense, repairing and modernizing Russian combat aircraft used against Ukraine.
