The richest Ukrainian Rinat Akhmetov lost 570 positions in the ranking of billionaires worldwide, which US Forbes annually publishes, - says Levyi Bereg.
Owner of SCM Group's assets have been estimated in the amount of $ 2.3 billion (last year it was $ 6.7 billion) which allowed him to have 771st position in the ranking (used to have 201st).
A few years ago,Akhmetov’s wealth reached $ 16 billion and he was the richest businessman in Eastern Europe.
The owner of Interpipe Victor Pinchuk’s wealth also reduced substantially, he got 1476th position, he used to have 1250th. Hid assets fell by $ 300 million to 1.2 billion for the year. Owners of Privat group Igor Kolomoisky and Gennadiy Bogolyubov managed to preserve their capital at the level of $ 1.3 billion each, they take 1367th position in the ranking.
Owner of the MHP Yuriy Kosyuk also has position in the ranking (1694 position, $ 1 billion).
There are no more Ukrainians in the Forbes ranking.
The top positions in the ranking are taken by Microsoft founder Bill Gates ($ 75 billion), the founder of the retail chain Zara Amancio Ortega (67 billion dollars) and the investor Warren Buffett (60.8 billion dollars).
Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg is on the 6th place with a fortune of $ 44.6 billion. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are on the 12th and 13th with a capital of 35.2 and 34.4 billion respectively.