LONDON – Ukrainian-born billionaire Len Blavatnik has become Britain’s wealthiest man, a “rich list”published annually by The Sunday Times newspaper showed on Sunday, but Queen Elizabeth slipped down the rankings despite her net worth growing.Boosted largely by rising stock markets, the newspaper said the super-rich had doubled their collective wealth since the 2009 economic crisis and that the wealthiest 1,000 people based in Britain were now worth 547 billion pounds ($1.1 trillion), up from 258 billion in 2009, an increase of 112 per cent.The figures are likely to be seized upon by politicians less than two weeks before a close …read more
Source: AsiaOne
