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RISING STAR ON THE RUN
Michael Dell’s $19.1 Once ranked the 50th most
billion personal powerful person in the world,
fortune makes him a Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar also
force to be reckoned belongs to another prominent list:
with—but it was Interpol’s most wanted. The leader
his company’s $67 of Indian organised crime network
billion acquisition of D-Company is believed to have ties
EMC, announced in to al Qaeda and has been linked to
October, that helped terrorist attacks, including 1993 and
the tech titan make 2008 bombings in Mumbai.
his debut this year at
No. 59 on our list.
BASTA, EL CHAPO!
Joaquin Guzmán Loera once
controlled the billion-dollar Sinaloa
drug-trafficking cartel and ranked as
high as No. 41 on our list. Currently
on the run, ‘El Chapo’ escaped a MEA CULPA, CARL
maximum security Mexican prison in
July but is presumed to be injured. Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn
With police closing in, he doesn’t yet strikes fear into the hearts of Wall
warrant a return to the list. Street power players and, in October,
made politicians quake when he
launched a $150 million super PAC to
promote tax reform. Considering that
he also has a $21.7 billion personal
fortune, he probably should have
joined these ranks sooner. Julian assange: JOHn sTillWell / aFP / geTTy images; Hillary ClinTOn: Daniel aCker / BlOOmBerg; miCHael Dell: simOn DaWsOn / BlOOmBerg; JOaquin guzman lOera: susana gOnzalez / BlOOmBerg; DaWOOD-iBraHim-kaskar: aP; Carl iCaHn: geTTy images;
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