He built a dinosaur theme park and planned to construct a new Titanic. But a move into politics appears to have sunk eccentric Australian billionaire Clive Palmer, writes Trevor Marshallsea. A powerful juggernaut of enormous ambition, thought to be unstoppable until striking an unforeseen obstacle. The words could describe the...
At 19 years old, Alexandra Andresen is the world’s youngest billionaire with a fortune estimated to be worth $1.2 billion… and apparently, pretty much all she does with that money is ride horses competitively. Along with her older sister Katharina, Alexandra shares a 44.2% stake in investment company Ferd, which...
Tehran (CNN)Iranian billionaire Babak Zanjani has been sentenced to death for corruption, authorities said Sunday. Zanjani and two others were convicted of embezzling billions of dollars from the national oil company, judiciary spokesman Gholam Hossein Ejei said. One of the charges he faces is "corruption on earth,"...
China has executed billionaire Liu Han, who was found guilty on 13 articles of the Criminal Code of the PRC. This execution was another proof of the fact that in China all are equal before the law. Well, almost all. According to the publication South China Morning Post, Liu Hanyu sentence was handed down in May last year....