According to the Forbes magazine, the richest Armenian businessman in the 2016 list of the world’s billionaires is Russian Armenia Samvel Karapetyan, whose net worth is $3.1 billion, and he is ranked 549th in this list.
“Samvel Karapetyan heads the Tashir Group, a real estate firm that owns 33 shopping centers, 4 office complexes, and 8 hotels across Russia,” Forbes reports. “In 2015 the group collected $610 million in revenue from leased space. Karapetyan made big acquisitions during the financial crisis and continues to buy property. (…) His companies operate in 25 regions of Russia, but recently he has focused on launching new projects in the Moscow area, with plans to invest $800 million to build 4.3 million square feet of residential, retail and office space. (…) In 2015, Tashir bought 36,000 kilometers of power grids in Karapetyan’s home country [Armenia] from Inter RAO Armenian Electric Grids.”
Argentinean Armenian businessman Eduardo Eurnekian’s net worth is $2.2 billion, and he is ranked 810th in the latest Forbes list.
“Today, he and partners have a portfolio of more than 50 airports in multiple countries with annual revenues of approximately $2 billion,” Forbes reports. “He bought assets through his Corporacion America, a holding company that owns more than 260,000 acres [approx. 105,000 hectares] of land dedicated to crops, cattle and vineyards. It also owns an infrastructure development company, a chip factory called Unitech Blue, a biodiesel production facility, and land in Armenia used for fruit production and wine. Eurnekian has been investing in oil and gas in Argentina.”
Russian Armenian businessman Danil Khachaturov’s net worth is $1.46 billion, and he is ranked 1,275th in the latest Forbes list.
“Between 2001 and 2003, he and his partners spent $60 million buying 75% of then-insolvent Rosgosstrakh from the government,” Forbes reports. “In 2010, they bought the remaining 25%. The only retail insurance company in the Soviet Union, Rosgosstrakh is still Russia’s largest insurance company, with $2.4 billion in revenue. In May 2015, the Bank of Russia suspended the insurer’s license for 13 days after receiving 2,300 complaints from clients.”
