$2 billion fine a drop in ocean for Potanin: Tycoon is first Russian worth $30 billion despite big penalty for oil spill disaster

In the same year

In the same year his company was ordered to pay a record $2 billion after an environmental disaster caused by a fuel spill, Vladimir Potanin has become the first Russian to reach an estimated wealth of $30 billion.

That’s according to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List, which tries to estimate the wealth of the world’s richest people.

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