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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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