Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates were
metaphorically sparring for the title of world’s richest individual last
week, but the true leader might actually be Vladimir Putin.
Bill Browder, a US financier, reportedly told senators last week that
the Russian President is richer than both Mr Bezos and Mr Gates
combined.
According to Newsweek, the chief executive officer of Hermitage Capital Management said that he thinks Mr Putin is worth $200bn.
Newsweek said that Mr Browder’s company was once the largest portfolio
investor in Russia and that Mr Browder was a shareholder in Gazprom,
Surgutneftegas and other Russian state-run enterprises in the 1990s.
Around that time Putin reportedly made a deal with Russian businessmen that made him the “richest man in the world”.
Mr Putin’s personal fortune has been the subject of intense debate and speculation.
Newsweek reports that, according to Mr Putin's official asset form – a
mandatory public disclosure for all Russian government officials – he
earns $133,000 a year and has a modest apartment in Moscow.
Last week Mr Bezos briefly became the world’s richest person as a result
of a surge in Amazon’s share price ahead of the e-retail giant’s
quarterly earnings report. Shares later tailed off again, however,
putting Mr Gates back in the top spot. Mr Bezos owns around 17 per cent
of Amazon’s shares.
Both Mr Bezos and Mr Gates are worth more than $90bn according to
Bloomberg data, with the latter occupying the top spot since 2013.
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