In Russia, the richest businessman of the country in the Forbes rating was changed. He was the chairman of the Board of Directors of PJSC Severstal Alexey Mordashov with a state of 29.1 billion dollars.
He overtook the largest shareholder of Nickel Vladimir Potanin, who last year was leading in the list. His capital is estimated at 27 billion dollars. In third place was the beneficiary of NLMK Vladimir Lisin (26.2 billion dollars).
In the top ten, Vagit Alekperov, Leonid Michelson, Gennady Timchenko, Alisher Usmanov, Andrei Melnichenko, Pavel Durov and Suleiman Karimov. There are 13 new names in the ranking – these are entrepreneurs who never fall into the list. The total state of newbies is $ 29.6 billion, the richest of them is the former Ministry of Communications Minister of Russia Denis Sverdlov (10.6 billion dollars).
He became a dollar billionaire after placing the securities exchange of his company Arrival. The company is engaged in the production of electric transport. The company’s cost estimated at $ 13.6 billion. Edition Financial Times called this placement the largest in the history of British startups.
Sverdlov founded the company in 2015. Arrival plans to build 31 plants for the production of electrical transport.