The Baltic Course No. 23

Skele’s Empire: from rise to fall

The next Latvian economic history’s review (previous one was published in the BC-22) is devoted to privatization history of the group of companies with an attractive name Ave Lat. The group has been dominating in a very important country’s economic sector during 1990s. It was the period when the foodstuff sector in the country has been closely connected to Mr. A. Skele, a millionaire himself and three times being Latvian prime minister. It is quite complicated to find strictly documented evidences about Mr. Skele’s direct connections to Ave Lat Grupa, though he himself regards his role in it as quite significant.

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