SystemBlueBob 0 Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Russia's hard-up oligarchs have seen their collective fortunes shrink to a paltry $148bn (£100bn), Forbes Russia said today in its colourful annual survey of the country's crisis-battered 100 richest people.The number of Russian billionaires has slumped from 110 last year to 32, while their assets – valued at $520bn in 2008 – have dropped by 70%, according to the magazine's latest survey. Russia's richest man, according to Forbes, is party-loving 43-year-old bachelor Mikhail Prokhorov. He sold his stake in the mining company Norilsk Nickel just before the crisis struck. His fortune is put at $9.5bn. In second place is Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea FC, whose net worth fell heavily from $24.3bn in 2008 to $8.5bn. But the biggest, most significant loser is Oleg Deripaska, who last year was Russia's richest man. Deripaska is now worth $3.5bn, according to Forbes, down from $28.6bn. He has struggled to repay multibillion loans from western banks used to expand his aluminium and building empire. "The decrease in their combined wealth has been spectacular," Forbes Russia's editor-in-chief Maxim Kashulinksy told the Guardian today. "Last year you needed $1.1bn to get on the list. Now it's $400m."http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/ap...-oligarch-slump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLion. 21,491 Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Oh no! He's only got $8.5 billion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SystemBlueBob 0 Posted April 18, 2009 Author Share Posted April 18, 2009 Oh no! He's only got $8.5 billion Hey, I told him I would pitch in a $10 or so to help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kez 2,727 Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Wish i only had $8.5 billion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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