4 Armenian businessmen included in FORBES’ 30th annual ranking of the world’s billionaires

YEREVAN, MARCH 1, ARMENPRESS. 4 Armenian businessmen were included in FORBES’ 30thannual ranking of the world’s billionaires. As “Armenpress” reports, citing Forbes official website, the ownerandfounder of FC KrasnodarSergey Galitsky (Arutyunyan) ranked 219th place with 5.7 billion dollars capacity. Theownerof“Tashir” GroupSamvel Karapetyan occupies the 549th place. Argentinian-Armenianbusinessman Eduardo Eurnekian is the 810th with 2.2 billion dollars and CEOofRosgosstrakh insurance company Danil Khachaturov ranks the 1275th in the rankings with 1.4 billion dollars capacity.

Bill Gates (No. 1)was once again on top as the world’s richest person on FORBES’ 30thannual ranking of the world’s billionaires in the Mar. 21, 2016 issue ofForbesmagazine; the technology guru has topped the list for 17 of the last 22 years, with a current net worth of $75 billion, down from $79.2 billion in 2015. Spanish clothing retailerAmancio Ortega (No. 2)(best known for the Zara fashion chain), up two spots, increased his net worth $2.5 billion for a total of $67 billion.Warren Buffett (No. 3)remained in the third spot, despite having his net worth drop $11.9 billion to $60.8 billion. Telecom mogulCarlos Slim Helu (No. 4)dropped two spots, and his net worth decreased to $50 billion from $77.1 billion last year. Amazon’sJeff Bezos (No. 5)moved up to the fifth from the fifteenth spot last year; his net worth increased to $45.2 billion.

According to Forbes, 1,810 billionaires (down from 1,826 in 2015) made the list, with an average net worth of $3.58 billion (down $280 million from $3.86 billion in 2015).