The richest man in the area is Czech businessman Petr Kellner, with $9.3 billion, followed by Ukrainian Rinat Akhmetov, with $7.3 bln, the latter controlling his country’s most important metallurgy company, Metinvest.
Dinu Patriciu’s fortune amounts to $2.5 bln, while Ion Tiriac has $1.2 bln. The “Eastern billionaires” have a cumulated fortune worth $51.5 bln.
