Forbes Asia - June 2018

Forbes Life BILLIONAIRES

82 | FORBES ASIA JUNE 2018

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The

Oligarchs

Score Big

AT LEAST 15 Russian billionaires found a way to get in

on the World Cup, which begins in their homeland on

June 14. hey either received contracts—just 6 of them

collected nearly $7 billion to construct or repair facilities

and transportation infrastructure—or invested money to

do things like run ticketing systems and provide internet

availability in stadiums. As the dollar igures from these

4 billionaires alone indicate, in Russia, the same old cro-

nies are getting richer yet again.

GENNADY

TIMCHENKO

NET WORTH: $16 BIL

An engineering-

and-construction

firm owned by

Timchenko, a close

ally of Vladimir

Putin, received

$530 million for

two 45,000-seat

stadiums.

VIKTOR

VEKSELBERG

$13.5 BIL

Vekselberg, who

reportedly had

ties to a firm that

paid Donald Trump

lawyer Michael

Cohen, spent $560

million to renovate

airports in four

cities.

ARKADY

ROTENBERG

$2.7 BIL

No one landed a

bigger payday: The

Putin pal got over

$4 billion for a 425-

mile highway—that

won’t be finished in

time—and just over

$1 billion to renovate

three airports.

ARAS

AGALAROV

$1.7 BIL

Agalarov, who once

planned to build

a Trump Tower in

Russia, received

$580 million to

erect two stadiums.

PLENTY OF COUNTRY HOMES claim to have a storybook

setting, but one 18th-century English manor comes with a library

full of literary legacy. Legend has it Robin Hood irst met Friar

Tuck behind Fountain Dale House, this 12-bedroom, 8-bathroom

property in Nottinghamshire, England, now listed for about $2.4

million. In addition to acquiring 10 merry acres near Sherwood

Forest, the new owner will get a 6,000-square-foot main house and

2,300-square-foot guesthouse, both listed on the U.K.’s registry of

historic buildings. Robin Hood isn’t the only literary hero connect-

ed to the residence: Sir Walter Scott wrote parts of Ivanhoe here,

and Washington Irving, author of e Legend of Sleepy Hollow,

mentioned Fountain Dale in his Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey.

Robin Hood’s Hideout

SURREAL ESTATE

BY SAMANTHA SHARF

BY ANGEL AU-YEUNG,

BASED ON REPORTING BY SERGEY

TITOV FOR FORBES RUSSIA