According to New Voice research, today there are only two billionaires left in Ukraine, while a year ago, according to the publication, there were nine billionaires. “Strana.ua”.
The first place in the ranking was taken by businessman Rinat Akhmetov, whose fortune is estimated at $ 6.59 billion. It was noted that its income decreased by 43 percent compared to 2022. In second place is entrepreneur Victor Pinchuk, with a fortune of $1.72 billion, a decrease of 34%.
Petro and Alexey Poroshenko took the third place with a fortune of $954 million. “The situation in which there are only two billionaires in Ukraine has not been observed since at least 2006, when the list of the richest businessmen began to be analyzed and published,” the report states.
Kyiv Shevchenkovsky District Court in October rejected A petition was submitted from the defense of Ukrainian businessman Igor Kolomoisky to change the preventive measure and detain him. On September 2, 2023, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) charged Kolomoisky with fraud and legalization of property obtained through crime. On the same day, the Kiev Shevchenkovsky District Court detained the entrepreneur for 60 days with the possibility of paying bail in the amount of 509 million hryvnia (more than 1.3 billion Russian rubles), but Kolomoisky refused to pay multimillion-dollar bail.
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Source: Gazeta
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