According to the news of Forbes, the incredible rise of Gautam Adani continues. The Indian businessman became the richest Asian billionaire in history (in dollar terms) in April 2022 and continues to climb.
Indian businessman Guatam Adani, who is shown as the richest person in India and Asia, managed to reach a fortune of 100 billion dollars. This number is; 59-year-old Adani, who operates in fields such as ports, mining and energy, succeeded in putting Adani in the "Billionaires Index" prepared by Bloomberg, which includes the ten richest people in the world.
Adani's wealth declined to $5.8 billion in March 2020 due to the pandemic. The wealth of the famous businessman on April 2, 2021 was 57.1 billion dollars. The fact that Adani has reached $100 billion this year also reveals that the wealth has increased approximately 16 times in the last two years.
As of April 2022, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is at the top of Bloomberg's list of the world's richest people with $273 billion. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos follows Musk with 178 billion dollars and French businessman Bernard Arnault with 148 billion dollars.
10 richest people in the world
- Elon Musk (USA) – $273 billion
- Jeff Bezos (USA) – $178 billion
- Bernard Arnault (France) – $148 billion
- Bill Gates (USA) – $133 billion
- Warren Buffet (USA) – $127 billion
- Larry Page (USA) – $125 billion
- Sergey Brin (USA) – $119 billion
- Steve Ballmer (USA) – $108 billion
- Larry Ellison (USA) – $103 billion
- Gautam Adani (India) – $100 billion
Finally, it should be noted that Mukesh Ambani, who is the richest person in India after Guatam Adani, ranks 11th on the list. Ambani, 64, who owns $99 billion, could soon be in the top 10.
The son of a textile merchant, Adani dropped out of university and founded a commodity export firm in 1988. He became a billionaire in 2008 and debuted on the Forbes charts with an estimated fortune of $9.3 billion.
In 2020, it acquired a 74% stake in Mumbai International Airport, India's second busiest airport.
Adani, who was kidnapped for ransom nearly 20 years ago, became one of the people taken hostage in the 2008 terrorist attack at the Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai, in which 166 people died.
In India, the opposition is criticizing that Adani has increased his wealth thanks to his closeness with the far-right Prime Minister Modi.