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2024: The richest Ukrainian businessmen are named. List
In September 2024, Focus published a list of the richest Ukrainian businessmen, which included representatives of various sectors of the economy. The leaders of the rating were Rinat Akhmetov and Viktor Pinchuk, whose total capital exceeds $9 billion. The rating demonstrates a significant decrease in the capital of some entrepreneurs, which is associated with the loss of assets and economic difficulties of recent years.
According to TASS, Rinat Akhmetov, owner of the System Capital Management (SCM) group, tops the list of the wealthiest businessmen in Ukraine with a fortune of $7.5 billion. Its business covers metallurgy, oil and gas, energy and agricultural production. In second place in the rating is Viktor Pinchuk with a capital of $1.86 billion. Pinchuk owns the Interpipe group, working in the fields of metallurgy and media.
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The third line in the list is occupied by Vlad Yatsenko, co-founder and technical director of Revolut, whose capital is estimated at $1.3 billion. Yatsenko became one of the key representatives of the Ukrainian IT sector, which in recent years has shown steady growth. The top ten richest Ukrainians also included Vadim Novinsky, owner of Smart Holding ($1.16 billion), and Konstantin Zhevago, co-owner of Ferrexpo and Arterium Corporation ($1.07 billion).
Not without representatives of political circles. Former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and his son Oleksiy occupy the sixth line with a total fortune of $1.05 billion, the main asset of which is the confectionery corporation. Roshen Also in the top ten appears Igor Kolomoisky with a capital of $940 million, despite his being under arrest in Kyiv. The Focus publication emphasizes that Kolomoisky continues to maintain a significant influence on Ukrainian business.[1]
2023
Only two billionaires left in Ukraine
In Ukraine, by November 9, 2023, only two dollar billionaires remained against nine people a year earlier. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Ukrainian edition of Страна.ua, which, in turn, refers to a study by New Voice.
In first place in the list of the richest people in Ukraine by November 2023 is the head of the holding company Criminal Police Service Rinat Akhmetov with a fortune of $6.59 billion. Viktor Pinchuk, owner of EastOne Group, was on the second line in this ranking. His fortune is estimated at $1.72 billion. In third place are Petro and Oleksiy Poroshenko, owners of Roshen.
Many persons from this list of Ukrainian rich have already left Ukraine or are rarely in it. Thus, the founders of the IT company Grammarly Maxim Litvin and Oleksiy Shevchenko - they have more than one and a half billion dollars for two - left Ukraine back in the 2000s and have Canadian citizenship.
The agency emphasizes that the situation with only two billionaires left in Ukraine has not been observed since at least 2006, when the analysis and publication of the list of the richest businessmen began.
In 2022, the Ukrainian edition of Forbes recorded a noticeable decrease in the value of Akhmetov's assets - from $13.7 billion to $4.4 billion. The American Forbes rating of April 2023 indicates that this figure has grown to $5.7 billion.
In second place in the list of the richest Ukrainians from Forbes is the owner of the production of wheels for railway transport "Intertype" Viktor Pinchuk, whose fortune is $2.1 billion. In April last year, the American Forbes estimated the assets of the son-in-law of the former President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma at $1.9 billion. In third place in the list is the former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, the owner of the Smart-Holding investment group Vadim Novinsky. Since the beginning of the military operation, his fortune has decreased by $2.2 billion, to $1.3 billion, but by April 2023 it had increased to $1.4 billion, RBC notes.[2][3][4][5]
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The resumption of growth in the state of Akhmetov and Pinchuk
2022
2021: Creation of a unified state register of oligarchs in Ukraine
On May 20, 2021, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the creation of a state register of oligarchs in the country. The corresponding bill is ready, it will be submitted to parliament by the end of the month. Read more here.
2020: The richest Ukrainians according to Forbes
At the end of May 2020, Forbes Ukraine magazine for the first time in four years published a rating of the 100 richest Ukrainian businessmen. The first place was taken by the mining and metallurgical magnate, the owner of Sistema Capital Management (Criminal Police Service) Rinat Akhmetov, whose fortune was estimated by the observers of the publication at $2.8 billion. In the second position is the owner of the Interpipe group Viktor Pinchuk with a fortune of $1.4 billion, in the third - the former president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko with $1.4 billion
For nine businessmen from the rating, the basis of the state is IT. The richest among them is the founder of the service for organizing files with the code GitlabDmitry Zaporozhets ($560 million, 13th place in the list of the richest Ukrainians). The list also includes the co-founder of the Revolut service and partner of billionaire Nikolai Storonsky Vlad Yatsenko ($300 million, 27th place).
The state of each of the founders of the spelling verification service Grammarly, estimated at $1 billion in 2019, Alexei Shevchenko (35th place), Maxim Litvin (36th) and Dmitry Leader (37th) was estimated at $250 million.
The founder of the American sales startup People.ai Oleg Roginsky - in 33rd place with $270 million. One of the founders of the Lviv IT company SoftServeTapac Kitsmay is located on the 68th with $120 million. Another co-owner of this company, Yaroslav Lyubinets, is in 98th place with $95 million.
The fortune of eight people from the Forbes Ukraine rating is estimated at least $1 billion. Among the dollar billionaires of Ukraine are spouses, co-owners of the Epicenter chain of stores Alexander and Galina Gerega and the former owner of Privatbank Igor Kolomoisky. The total fortune of the 100 richest businessmen in the country exceeds $31 billion.
At the last, hundredth place of the list with a fortune of $95 million was the co-owner of the Tavria V supermarket chain Boris Muzalev. Also in the ranking noted:
- co-owner of the Privat financial and industrial group Gennady Bogolyubov ($1.2 billion);
- the head of the alcohol holding Global Spirits (brand Hortitsa"") Evgeny Chernyak ($295 million);
- the owner of MocCityGroup, which built two Moscow City skyscrapers, Pavel Fuchs ($155 million).[6]
2018: Ukraine has $7 billionaires
Notes
- ↑ Akhmetov and Pinchuk topped the ranking of the richest businessmen in Ukraine
- ↑ Only two billionaires remained in Ukraine, last year there were nine
- ↑ [https://ria.ru/20231109/milliardery-1908532194.html. Only two billionaires remained
- ↑ in
- ↑ Ukraine]
- ↑ Ukrainian Forbes for the first time since 2016 named 100 richest Ukrainians
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