Two weeks after he made a major “logistical” breakthrough in Bloomberg’s billionaire rankings, when he ranked third in the ranking, the place of the French billionaire Bernard Arnault, chairman of the board of directors of the world’s first LVMH group in luxury clothes, the Indian Gautam Adani, owner of the Israeli port of Haifa, returned, And he made a new breakthrough that surpassed Jeff Besos, the famous founder of Amazon for international trade on the Internet, and took second place in his place, making him third in the list that the American Elon Musk still leads.
It was reported from Gautam Adani in “Bloomberg” yesterday, that the fortune of the founder of Adani Group, which operates the largest port in India, swelled from 137 billion dollars two weeks ago, and on September 16 this year it became 153.7 billion, and that the married and the father of two sons has great luck, in 1988 he was kidnapped by a gang to obtain He was given a ransom, but his kidnappers released him without her. It was also in 2008 inside the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai, when the hotel was subjected to a terrorist attack, in which the attackers killed 31 people and wounded dozens, and among the survivors was Adani, who is now 60 years old.
The activities of the “Adani Group”, whose board of directors he chairs and bears his name, is distributed between seaports, airports, renewable energy and coal in India and Australia in particular, and it bought in 2020 74% of the shares of the largest “Mumbai” airport in India, and has been active since May It has made the past in the concrete sector after it acquired the Swiss concrete giant “Holkim” in India, for 10 billion and 500 million dollars.
A month ago, his group won a tender to operate the Haifa port until 2054 in cooperation with the Israeli company “Gadot”, with a share of 70% for his group for one billion and 800 million dollars, so they considered him the port’s owner. He also began to be active in the media field, since he bought 3 weeks ago 29% of the private television station NDTV in India.
As for the wealth of the world’s richest, Elon Musk, founder of Tesla for the production of electric cars, as well as SpaceX for space services and its accessories, Bloomberg reported that it is 264 billion, while Jeff Bezos’ fortune is 150 billion dollars.