Bloomberg estimated the losses of Russian billionaires since February at $93 billion

Russian billionaires have lost another $46.6 billion in the ten months since the end of February, and the world's 500 richest people as a whole have lost almost $1.4 trillion in a year. Forbes wrote,

Russian billionaires have lost more than $93 billion since the end of February, half of the amount ($46.6 billion) they lost on February 24, the rest ($47 billion) in the following months, writes Bloomberg citing its own calculations.

The assets of billionaires from other countries have also declined, only the first 500 businessmen from the list of the richest people on the planet have lost almost $1.4 trillion in a year. At the same time, only Elon Musk (head of Tesla and SpaceX), Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon), Changpeng Zhao (founder of the Binance crypto exchange) and Mark Zuckerberg (founder of Meta, recognized as extremist and banned in Russia) account for about $ 392 billion in losses.

Bloomberg attributes this dynamic to rising inflation and tightening central bank policies (which affected those who got rich during the COVID-19 pandemic , the agency notes), as well as the fighting in Ukraine and subsequent sanctions . Musk's fortunes were also affected by his own antics in connection with the acquisition and management of Twitter, his assets decreased by $138 billion in a year, writes Bloomberg. In early December, Forbes indicated that he had given way to the richest man in the world to Bernard Arnault.

The Russian billionaire saidthat flew to Africa because of EU sanctions Politics

Russian authorities criticize Western sanctions, and restrictive measures against businessmen are called international banditry. “Never in any part of the world have sanctions led to the fact that those countries against whom they are introduced somehow change their position,” said Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian president.

Since February, the wealth of the 20 richest Ukrainian billionaires has also decreased - from more than $ 40 billion to $ 22.5 billion, the Ukrainian edition of Forbes came to this conclusion. Rinat Akhmetov, the owner of Metinvest and DTEK, remained the wealthiest Ukrainian, but the value of his assets fell from $13.7 billion to $4.4 billion. Former President Petro Poroshenko left the list of billionaires, his fortune decreased from $1.6 billion to $730 million.

 

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