Vladimir Putin: Interesting Facts and Questionable Stunts

The Richest Man In The World

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For a brief period of time, it looked as though the CEO of Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos was the richest man in the world after dethroning Bill Gates. However, according to Bill Browder, the CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, neither of them are the world’s richest men. He notes that the world’s richest man is worth more than both of those two men combined, and that man is Vladimir Putin. Although his exact net worth is unknown, Browder notes that Putin has numerous operations in effect, and has been amassing his fortune over the years. From hunting rats in a communal apartment to the richest man in the world, that’s quite impressive.