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Britain’s Bollygarchs – Asian Billionaires

Britain’s Bollygarchs

The new tribe of Indian billionaires has its capital in London. Clive Aslet profiles 20 of these Bollygarchs who love nothing more than prime Kensington property and weekends in the country

1. LAKSHMI MITTAL   $28.7bn
Lakshmi Mittal does not court publicity, but neither – being among the handful of richest people on [...]

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

Best Articles on the Rich and Famous from Perfect Knowledge PR

Abramovich’s New $350 Million Megayacht Will Have Missile Defense System http://bit.ly/DFdiO
The rare glimpse into the lives of the super rich during a candid chat with a private fixer http://bit.ly/Z9zc9
LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton to Acquire Royal van Lent, Builder of Luxury Mega-Yachts http://bit.ly/2JfPP
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Monday, September 21st, 2009

Mega Yachts v Super Yachts

This page contains some of the top 100 mega yachts in the world and includes the year and the yacht was launched and the owner of the yacht. Ever wonder who owns the mega yachts of the world? Below is a listing, by size, of the top superyachts.
Eclipse Length 167meters (548ft) Year expected launched 2009 [...]

Friday, September 4th, 2009

One £200 million super-yacht with three Monet paintings onboard

This $400 million super-yacht was built for a Russian oligarch, Andrey Melnichenko, 37, who is worth $9.2 billion and was ranked 172 on the Forbes list of the world’s richest people. There is a large master suite as well as six luxury cabins for up to 14 guests and enough room for 42 crew members. [...]

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Threat to offshore accounts as taxman does deal with Liechtenstein

Some of the richest people in the UK will find out today if the taxman will be allowed access to details of their secret offshore accounts. The tax courts will rule on whether HM Revenue and Customs can demand information from accounts held by an estimated 500,000 Britons at 300 foreign banks with branches in [...]

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Sheikh Who Backed Barclays Gets Another Shot With Qatar’s Money

On a March morning in Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City on the Persian Gulf, a red flame shrouded in black smoke shoots into the haze from a 650-foot stack. The burst of fire is burning off excess fuel as workers rush to finish equipment that will help the nation, already the world’s biggest exporter of [...]

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Launch of new website Perfect Knowledge PR www.perfectknowledgepr.com

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Saturday, August 1st, 2009

The worlds wealthiest royals

No. 1 on Forbes’ list, for the second year in a row, is Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej. He is worth $30 billion, $5 billion less than last year, as a result of double-digit declines in real estate and stocks owned via the Crown Property Bureau, the state investment vehicle of which he is a trustee. [...]

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Russian billionaires oligarchs favourite fixer and English lawyer met his horrifying death

It is 6.56pm on March 3, 2004. A brand new, six-seater, £1.5million Agusta A109E helicopter lands under an overcast sky at Battersea heliport in South London. Waiting impatiently and clutching his two mobile phones is a broad-shouldered lawyer named Stephen Curtis.
The 45-year-old climbs aboard and manoeuvres his bulky frame into a rear seat. At 6.59pm [...]

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Thieves steal £13m of jewels from cartier in Cannes

A man with a deep suntan and wearing a flowery shirt walked into the Cartier store in Cannes and threatened staff with a gun. Two accomplices wearing crash helmets then entered the store, which is near the Carlton hotel popular with Hollywood stars during the Cannes film [...]

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Millionaire Fair Moscow 2009

Held in Moscow for the first time, the Summer Fair is a smaller version of the giant luxury market, the Millionaire Fair. “It’s definitely smaller, but the level of the participants is higher,” said Yelena Kudozova, the managing director of the Millionaire Fair. She listed carmakers McClaren and jewelry brand Piaget as examples.
Highlighting the exclusivity [...]

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Abramovich Launches his new Mega Yacht

Russian oligarch, Roman Abramovich’s mega-yacht ‘Eclipse’ has finally made a preliminary launch at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany where it was built secretly for more than two years. Estimated to have cost around $500 million, the vessel is nearly 170 meters long. It has room for 24 guests, with a crew of [...]

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009