Leonard Blavatnik becomes the richest man in Britain

Ukrainian-born businessman Leonard Blavatnik is recognized as the richest man in the UK. The fortune of the businessman, whose assets include the record company Warner Music, is estimated at 13.17 billion pounds (about $ 20 billion).

The second place in the rating was occupied by the owners of the Hinduja corporation, whose fortune is estimated at 13 billion pounds. in third place were entrepreneurs Galen and George Weston, whose business assets include retail chains and food production. Their fortune is estimated at 11 billion pounds.

The fourth place in the rating was taken by the Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov. His fortune was estimated at 9.8 billion pounds (14.88 billion dollars). Another Russian, the owner of the London football club Chelsea Roman Abramovich, finished 10th with 7.29 billion pounds.

The list [of the richest people in the UK], which will be published tomorrow, includes 117 billionaires - a year earlier there were 104. Their total fortune is estimated at 325.131 billion dollars, 80 of them live in London. This means that the capital now has more pound billionaires than any other city in the world.

The Daily Mirror

• Russian Forbes estimates the fortune of Alisher Usmanov, ranked fourth in the list of the richest people in the UK, at $ 14.4 billion. He ranks third in the list of the richest Russians. Forbes estimates Roman Abramovich's fortune at $9.1 billion.