Ten Ukrainians have made Forbes’ latest list of billionaires released on March 3, up from eight last year. Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest man, slipped one position from last year to 47th on the 2013 ranking of the richest people on the planet. Still, the steel magnate and Shakhtar Donetsk football club owner whose net worth according to Forbes is $15.4 billion, down from $16 billion, stayed far ahead of his Ukrainian mates.
Topping the
annual Forbes list again was Mexican
Carlos Slim Helu and family, with a net worth of $73 billion, up from $69
billion in 2012. Notably, Americans Bill Gates ($64 billion) and Warren Buffet
($53.5) were ranked 2nd and 4th on the list, respectively.
In contrast
to the Forbes list, Bloomberg
Billionaires assesses Akhmetov’s net worth at a higher $21.4 billion, ranking
him 32nd on its list of the world’s richest persons.
The nearest
Ukrainian to Akhmetov on the Forbes list was Viktor Pinchuk with an estimated
net worth of $3.8 billion placing 353rd. The steel magnate and modern art philanthropist
recently committed half his wealth to charity after joining Giving Pledge, a
project formed by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates.
Rounding
out the Ukrainians on the list, in order of ranking, were:
Ihor
Kolomoyskyy, 50, banker and investor in 613th place with $2.4 billion;
Vadim
Novinsky, 49, mine owner who swapped his Russian citizenship for Ukrainian in 792nd
place with $1.9 billion;
Henadiy,
Boholyubov, 51, banker and investor in 882nd place with $1.7 billion;
Yuriy
Kosiuk, 44, farm holder in 931st place with $1.6 billion;
Petro
Poroshenko, 47, confectionery in 931st place with $1.6 billion;
Kostyantin
Zhevago, 39, banker and mine owner in 974th place with $1.5 billion;
Serhiy Tigipiko,
53, banker and farm holder in 1,175th place with $1.2 billion;
Andrey
Verevskiy, 38, farm holder in 1,342nd place with $1 billion.
Kyiv Post staff writer
Chris Miller can be reached at [email protected].
