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Usmanov, Abramovich in U.K. Rich Listâ€™s Top Three

29 April 2012 04:10 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Russian businessmen Alisher Usmanov and Roman Abramovich have made it into the top three of Sunday Times Rich List of U.K.â€™s wealthiest people, APA reports referring BBC.

The richest person on the list, published on Sunday, is steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, 61, with the wealth estimated at 12.7 billion pounds (about $20.6 billion). This is his seventh consecutive title, though he lost 27 percent of his wealth since last year because of a drop in the share price of their steel producing business.

â€œAnother person who has made money from the metal industry, Arsenal shareholder Alisher Usmanov, is second with 12.3 billion pounds (over $20 billion), while Chelsea owner and oil baron Roman Abramovich is third with 9.5 billion pounds ($15.4 billion), despite being 800 million pounds ($1.3 billion) down on last year,â€ BBC said.

The richest woman on the list is Miss UK Kirsty Bertarelli, ranked sixth. She shares a fortune of 7.4 billion pounds (about $12 billion) with her husband, Swiss entrepreneur Ernesto Bertarelli.

The combined worth of the country’s 1,000 wealthiest people is 414 billion pounds (almost $673.5 billion), up 4.7 percent in the past 12 months. The number of billionaires has risen from 73 to 77.

The list is compiled by Sunday Times annually on the basis of open-access information and own sources.