The number of Italian billionaire's
on Forbes list of the richest people on the planet has risen by
13 in the two years of the COVID-19 pandemic just as over one
million Italians have plunged into poverty, Oxfam said Tuesday.
"Between March 2020 and November 2021, the number of Italian
billionaires on the Forbes List rose by 13 units and the
aggregate value of the super-rich grew by 56%, touching 185
billion euros at the end of last November," said the NGO.
The Italian rich list has been dominated for year by the likes
of Leonardo del Vecchio (Luxottica), Giovanni Ferrero (Nutella),
Stefano Pessina (Walgreens Boots), and media mogul and
three-time former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi.
Among the new entries are Agnelli heir John Elkann, with two
billion dollars of personal wealth; glass king Sergio Stavanato
(1.9 billion); supermarket magnates Giuliano and Marina Caprotti
(1.7 billion each); steel moguls Antonio and Emma Marcegaglia
(1.4 billion each); and, all above one billion: Technogym king
Nerio Alessandri, MAPEI mogul Simona Giorgetta, toy king Enrico
Preziosi, and chemicals kingpins Marco and Veronica Squinzi,
also of MAPEI.
The world's super-rich like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Elon Musk
got richer two times over during the pandemic, Oxfam said on the
basis of the Forbes List, while 163 million people worldwide
fell into poverty.
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