bill gates has topped the 28th annual world billionaires list of forbes released on 3rd march 2014.
who has topped the 28th annual world billionaires list of forbes released on 3rd march 2014?
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in 2018, there was a record of 2,208 people on the list, that included 259 newcomers mostly from china and the u.s.; there were 63 people under 40 and it had a record number of 256 women. the average net worth of the list came in at , up from 2017. added together, the total net worth for 2018's billionaires was , up from in 2017. , microsoft founder bill gates had topped the list 18 of the past 24 years, while amazon founder jeff bezos is ranked at the top for the first time and he became the first centibillionaire included in the ranking. additionally, mark zuckerberg is currently the only person in the top 10 billionaires list who is under the age of 50, and the only one in the top 20 billionaires list who is under the age of 40.
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on january 29, 2018, milner’s name was included in the united states treasury department’s “report to congress pursuant to section 241 of the countering america’s adversaries through sanctions act of 2017 regarding senior foreign political figures and oligarchs in the russian federation and russian parastatal entities” (caatsa), a list of 96 individuals of russian heritage who “have an estimated net worth of $1 billion or more.” although it was widely, and incorrectly, reported in the media that those on the list “may be subject to sanctions,” the caatsa report itself made clear that it “in no way should be interpreted to impose sanctions on those individuals or entities”. it also specified that inclusion in the report “does not constitute the determination by any agency that any of those individuals or entities meet the criteria for designation under any sanctions program,” and in no way indicates that “the u.s. government has information about the individual’s involvement in malign activities.” shortly after the list was released, it was reported that the treasury department had simply copied it from the forbes’ 2017 “world billionaires” list: people on the forbes list who had russian heritage and a net worth of $1 billion or more had been indiscriminately included in the caatsa report. in its response to a lawsuit asserting that the compilation of the list was “arbitrary, capricious, and contrary to law,” the treasury department has confirmed that it is “not challenging” the allegation that it had “simply republished” the forbes billionaires list.
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