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TH E WORLDÕ S BILLIONA IR E S

UKRAINE UNITED
FC SHAKHTAR DONETSK
GDP: $108.8 BIL KIEV RINAT AKHMETOV
POPULATION: 42 MIL 5 *
BILLIONAIRES: 7 (+1 VS. 2017) KINGDOM
TOTAL NET WORTH: $13.2 BIL DONETSK
(+$2.6 BIL VS. 2017) DNEPROPETROVSK
GDP: $2.6 TRIL
POPULATION: 66 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 54 (–1 VS. 2017)*
TOTAL NET WORTH: $203.7 BIL (+$39.3 BIL VS. 2017)*
WEALTH
TOP SECTORS ORIGIN
RINAT Rinat Akhmetov  12
AKHMETOV $5.5 BIL #334 STEEL, COAL FINANCE & INVESTMENTS 9% 6%
Kostyantin Zhevago  8
RICHEST: In December, a $1.6 BIL #1477 MINING 85%
court in Cyprus reportedly or- FASHION & RETAIL
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dered $820 million of Akhme- Yuriy Kosiuk  DIVERSIFIED
$1.5 BIL #1561 AGRICULTURE
tov’s assets frozen as part of 7
an ongoing legal dispute with Victor Pinchuk  REAL ESTATE INHERITED & GROWING
INHERITED
Raga Establishment, a Cyprus- $1.4 BIL #1650 STEEL PIPES, 5 SELF-MADE
DIVERSIFIED
based holding company. Akh- MANUFACTURING

metov’s investment firm SCM Henadiy Boholyubov 
acquired Ukraine’s largest $1.2 BIL #1867 BANKING,
INVESTMENTS
landline operator, Ukrtelecom,
from Raga in 2013. Raga re- Ihor Kolomoyskyy 
$1 BIL #2124 BANKING,
portedly accused SCM of not INVESTMENTS
making its full payment. SCM
disagrees with the ruling and Vadim Novinsky  Hinduja family 
$1 BIL #2124 STEEL
is contesting it. $19.5 BIL #55 DIVERSIFIED

James Ratcliffe 
$16.4 BIL #78 CHEMICALS
Richard Desmond
David & Simon Reuben 
UNITED ARAB $15.5 BIL #88 INVESTMENTS, NEWSMAKER: The tabloid tycoon an- -
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nounced plans in February to sell his
EMIRATES Michael Platt  media portfolio, including Star, OK!
$6.9 BIL #237 HEDGE FUNDS
and the Daily Express, to publish-
Ian & Richard Livingstone  er Trinity Mirror for about $177 mil-
GDP: $378.7 BIL $6.4 BIL #265 REAL ESTATE lion. Desmond dropped out of school
POPULATION: 9 MIL Bruno Schroder & family  at age 14 to become a drummer. He
BILLIONAIRES: 7 (+2 VS. 2017) DUBAI $6.2 BIL #281 BANKING started his first magazine, Interna-

TOTAL NET WORTH: $24 BIL 5 David & Frederick Barclay  tional Musician & Recording World, in
(–$3.3 BIL VS. 2017) $5.8 BIL #305 MEDIA, RETAIL 1974 and later owned dozens of adult
entertainment publications, such as
James Dyson 
$5.6 BIL #321 VACUUMS Asian Babes and Penthouse, in the U.K.
ABU DHABI

Laurence Graff & family 
Abdulla bin Ahmad Al $5.6 BIL #321 DIAMOND JEWELRY
Ghurair & family 
$5.9 BIL #296 DIVERSIFIED Andrew Currie 
$5.5 BIL #334 CHEMICALS
Majid Al Futtaim & family 
$4.6 BIL #456 REAL ESTATE, John Reece 
RETAIL $5.5 BIL #334 CHEMICALS
Hussain Sajwani  Richard Branson 
$4.1 BIL #527 REAL ESTATE $5 BIL #388 VIRGIN
Abdulla Al Futtaim  Denise Coates 
$3.3 BIL #703 AUTO DEALERS, $5 BIL #388 ONLINE GAMBLING
INVESTMENTS
Joe Lewis 
Saeed Bin Butti Al Qebaisi ★ $5 BIL #388 INVESTMENTS
$2.7 BIL #887 HOSPITALS, Philip & Cristina Green 
INVESTMENTS $4.8 BIL #422 RETAIL
Saif Al Ghurair & family  Clive Calder 
$1.9 BIL #1284 DIVERSIFIED $4.7 BIL #441 RECORD LABEL
Khalifa Bin Butti Al Muhairi ★
$1.5 BIL #1561 HOSPITALS,
INVESTMENTS
Laurence Graff
NEWSMAKER: High-end jeweler Graff acquired the 1,109-carat

Lesedi La Rona—the second-largest gem-quality diamond ever
Saeed Bin Butti Al Qebaisi found—in September, four months after he bought its 374-
NEWCOMER: The investor makes his debut on the list following a surge in the share price of NMC carat sibling. An older deal made even bigger waves. Forbes

Health, which bills itself as the UAE’s largest private health care provider. The London-listed firm confirmed in January that Donald Trump, who bought Mela-

runs hospitals and clinics in a dozen countries in the Middle East, Europe and Latin America. Bin nia’s 12-carat engagement ring from Graff in 2004, fibbed when

Butti Al Qebaisi owns about 18% of NMC Health, plus stakes in foreign exchange firms Travelex he publicly boasted he received a $1 million discount. Graff says Trump was “a
and UAE Exchange. pleasure to do business with” but was given “no favors.”
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*Includes Guernsey. 1 Guernsey citizen.
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