Businessman Ioan Niculae, the owner of agricultural group Interagro, leads Forbes 500 Richest Romanians list in 2013, being worth an estimated 1.1 billion euros.
Ranking next is Dan Grigore Adamescu, whose fortune is put at 950 million euros and Frank Timis and Ion Tiriac, with 850 million euros each.
The Top-10 Romanian billionaires also feature business owners Veronica Gusa de Dragan (550 million euros), Gabriel Comanescu (500 million euros), Gruia Stoica (470 million euros), Ovidiu Tender (400 million euros), Zoltan Teszari (370 million euros) and brothers Dragos and Damian Paval (360 million euros).
The combined wealth of the 500 billionaires featuring in this year’s Forbes Top amounts to 19.9 billion euros, down by 1.6 billion euros from last year’s edition.
The average wealth is worth 39 million euros and the minimum fortune of those having made it to the list is 5 million euros.
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