Samvel Karapetyan
REAL TIME NET WORTH — as of 4/26/17
$3.9 B
Samvel Karapetyan heads the Tashir Group, a real estate firm that owns 33 shopping centers, six office complexes, and 10 hotels across Russia and Armenia. Born in Armenia, he moved to Kaluga, near Moscow, in the 1990s. His companies operate in 25 regions of Russia, but recently he has focused on launching new projects in the Moscow area. Karapetyan’s older brother, Karen, is a well-known Armenian politician and served as a top official in Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan’s administration.
In March 2013 Samvel Karapetyan became known as the wealthiest ethnic Armenian in the world when he overtook Kirk Kerkorian in wealth. Kirkorian is an Armenian-American businessman. As in May 2015 Karapetyan had an estimated net worth of US$5.3 billion according to Forbes, a staggering US$1.3 billion more than what was estimated only three months before that in February 2015 when his wealth was estimated at US$4 billion. The drastic increase in net worth made Karapetyan the 29th richest person in Russia, and also put him in the 353rd slot of the World Billionaires list.
Source:
1. forbes