KIEV, March 13 – Regions Party MP Rinat Akhmetov has topped this year's list of the richest people by the Korrespondent Magazine for the third year running.

The magazine estimates the fortune of the Donetsk businessman, head of financial and industrial holding System Capital Management, and president of Shakhtar football club at $17.8 billion.

The third and the second places are occupied by businessman Ihor Kolomoisky (with $6.5 billion) and his partner Hennadiy Boholiubov ($6.3 billion), who both control Ukraine's largest bank, Dnipropetrovsk-based PrivatBank. They are followed by philanthropist and entrepreneur Viktor Pinchuk ($3.1 billion) and an owner of controlling stake in Britain's Ferrexpo plc, Kostiantyn Zhevaho, ($2.4 billion).