Four Armenian Businessman Included in World’s Billionaires List

Four Armenian businessmen have been included in the 30th List of World’s Billionaires released by Forbes magazine, writes 168.am.

The Armenian billionaire with the highest ranking in the list of the world’s billionaires is owner of Krasnodar football club Sergei Galitsky (Harutyunian), who is in 219th place with $5.7 billion dollars. Owner of Tashir Group Samuel Garabedian is in 549th place with $3.1 billion dollars, Argentine-Armenian businessman Eduardo Eurnekian is in 810th place with $2.2 billion dollars, and director of Rosgosstrakh insurance company Danil Khachaturov is in 1,275th place with $1.4 billion dollars.

Former owner of Microsoft Bill Gates has been recognized as the world’s richest person in the Forbes List with $75 billion dollars, followed by founder of Zara Company Amancio Ortega with $67 billion, Warren Buffet with $60.8 billion, Mexican businessman Carlos Slim Helu with $50 billion, owner of Amazon Jeff Bezos with $45.2 billion, founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg with $44.6 billion, Larry Ellison with $43.6 billion, Michael Bloomberg with $40 billion, Charles Koch with $39.6 billion and David Koch with $39.6 billion.

According to Forbes, there are 1,810 billionaires, which is 16 less than last year.