Forbes Ukraine magazine has ranked the country’s 100 richest businessmen for the first time since 2016. The rating was headed by Rinat Akhmetov with a capital of 2.8 billion dollars.
In second place in the list of the richest Ukrainians is the owner of the Interpipe group, Viktor Pinchuk, with $1.4 billion, and in third place is the fifth president of Ukraine, the leader of the European Solidarity party, Petro Poroshenko, with $1.4 billion.
Poroshenko returned to the list of dollar billionaires after a five-year absence: in 2014, the American Forbes estimated his fortune at $ 1.3 billion, and in 2015 stopped considering him a billionaire.
Eight people in the rating have an estimated fortune of at least $ 1 billion, including two of them, the co—owners of the Epicenter hypermarket chain, spouses Alexander and Galina Gerega, occupy one line.
Igor Kolomoisky, ex-shareholder of PrivatBank, closes the list of dollar billionaires with $ 1 billion.
The source of wealth of nine businessmen from the rating is IT. The publication placed the capital of the richest of them in the amount of 560 million dollars, Dmitry Zaporozhets, the founder of the GitLab file systematization service, in the 13th position.
In addition, Vlad Yatsenko, co-founder of the Revolut service, ranks 27th in the ranking with $300 million, and Alexey Shevchenko, Maxim Litvin and Dmitry Leader, founders of the Grammarly spell-checking service, from 35th to 37th, respectively. Each of them has an estimated fortune of $250 million.
The ranking of the richest Ukrainians also includes Dmitry Firtash, the owner of Group DF with $ 370 million in the 24th position, the head of Global Spirits alcohol holding, which owns the Khortytsia brand, Evgeny Chernyak with $ 295 million in the 30th position, as well as the owner of MosCityGroup, Russian-Ukrainian businessman Pavel Fuchs with 155 million dollars in the 51st position. Boris Muzalev, co-owner of the Tavria V supermarket chain, received number 100 on the list.
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