Roman Romanov (born 1976) is a Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

n businessman of Russian origin as well as the chairman of Scottish Premier League

Scottish Premier League

The Scottish Premier League , also known as the SPL , is a professional league competition for association football clubs in Scotland...

 football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club Hearts

Heart of Midlothian F.C.

Heart of Midlothian Football Club are a Scottish professional football club based in Gorgie, in the west of Edinburgh. They currently play in the Scottish Premier League and are one of the two principal clubs in the city, the other being Hibernian...

. Romanov is the son of Hearts' majority shareholder Vladimir Romanov

Vladimir Romanov

Vladimir Nikolayevich Romanov ; born 1947 in Tver Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR) is an ethnic Russian businessman who also holds Lithuanian citizenship following that country's independence from the Soviet Union. He is chairman of UBIG Investments which is the majority shareholder in Scottish Premier...

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Romanov joined Hearts as a non-executive director

Non-executive director

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 on 1 February 2005, after his father acquired a controlling interest in the company. Following the departures of George Foulkes

George Foulkes, Baron Foulkes of Cumnock

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 and Phil Anderton

Phil Anderton

-Scottish Rugby Union:Anderton is currently the Chief Executive Offiver of Al Jazira Club in Abu Dhabi. He was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of the Scottish Rugby Union in February 2004, after several years of successful marketing within the SRU....

 on 31 October 2005, he was appointed as chairman and interim chief executive. Hearts announced at the time that Romanov would assume the title of chief executive "on a temporary basis... pending a further appointment". As of April 2009 no further appointment to that position has been made, although Campbell Ogilvie

Campbell Ogilvie

Campbell Ogilvie is the first vice-president of the Scottish Football Association and the managing director of Scottish Premier League football club Heart of Midlothian.In 1978, Ogilvie was hired as general secretary at the Rangers F.C...

 has since been promoted to the position of managing director, with responsibility for day-to-day operations of the club.

Like his father, Romanov has accused the Scottish football authorities of conspiring against Hearts. He stated at the club's annual general meeting

Annual general meeting

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 in April 2008 that the Scottish Premier League

Scottish Premier League

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 was a "fixed

Match fixing

In organised sports, match fixing, game fixing, race fixing, or sports fixing occurs as a match is played to a completely or partially pre-determined result, violating the rules of the game and often the law. Where the sporting competition in question is a race then the incident is referred to as...

" league and that referees had "screwed" Hearts frequently during the 2007–08 season.