A native of the Soviet Union led the list of the richest people in the UK – Bulletin

The American businessman Leonard Blavatnik, who owns a record company Warner Music and shares in the “Rusal”, topped the list of the richest people in the UK. This is evidenced by an annual ranking, published on Saturday in the electronic version of the newspaper Sunday Times.

head of state investment company Access Industries is estimated at 13.17 billion pounds ($ 19.91 billion). Last year Blavatnik, who was born in Odessa, located on the fourth place ranking, while its revenues were lower by 3.17 million pounds ($ 4.79 billion).

The second line of the list are brothers Hinduya holding conglomerate Hinduja Group, whose fortune is estimated at 13 billion pounds ($ 19.65 billion). Three leaders close the Galen and George Weston, managing retail empire in London, which includes a chain store Selfridges and Primark. Their wealth has increased by 3.7 billion pounds ($ 5.59 billion) to 11 billion pounds ($ 16.63 billion).

Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov, with 9.8 billion pounds ($ 14.81 billion) this year was on the fourth place ranking. In turn, the owner of the London football club “Chelsea” Roman Abramovich, whose fortune has decreased by 1.23 billion pounds ($ 1.86 billion) to 7.29 billion pounds ($ 11.02 billion), took tenth place in the list.