SCM Group owner Rinat Akhmetov remains the richest Ukrainian in 2019 according to the Focus magazine, with fortune of $7.2 billion.
According to the list, owner of Interpipe Victor Pinchuk with $2.4 billion and owner of Group DF Dmytro Firtash with $1.7 billion are second and third on the list.
Ex-owners of the Privat Bank Ihor Kolomoisky with $1.1 billion and Hennadiy Boholiubov with $0.9 billion, who were second and third in recent years, fell to the eighth and ninth places respectively.
Owner of Smart-Holding Vadim Novinsky with $1.5 billion climbed from the fifth to fourth position. A shareholder in Ferrexpo Kostiantyn Zhevaho with $0.5 billion fell from the fourth position to the 20th.
Ex-President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, the owner of Roshen, climbed from 12th to the fifth position with $1.3 billion. Owners of Epicenter K Group, Hereha couple with $1.2 billion, climbed from the 10th position to the sixth.
The seventh place on the list is occupied by the owner of Dniprospetsstal, the head of the political council of the Opposition Platform – For Life party Viktor Medvedchuk with a fortune of $1.1 billion, who entered the rating for the first time.
In addition, the owner of Fozzy Group, Volodymyr Kostelman ($0.85 billion), moved up to the 10th place from 13th.