Mittal leads rich list in Britain, 1 Brit in top 5

The steel baron consolidated his position at the top by acquiring world’s leading steel company Arcelor last year.

The combined business, Arcelor Mittal, produces 115 million tons of steel a year and accounts for ten per cent of market. Mittal is followed in the list by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, with a 11,700-million-pound fortune, and the Duke of Westminster — the richest property developer in Britain, worth 7,000 million pounds.

The Hinduja brothers — Sri and Gopi — are at number four, and they will celebrate the 100th anniversary of their father’s 6,200-million-pound industry and finance empire in the year 2014.

Alisher Usmanov, a former prosecutor in Uzbekistan, who appears at number five, built his 5,726-million-pound fortune through steel and ore mines.

A former Miss United Kingdom from Staffordshire, Kirsty Bertarelli, is the highest placed woman, appearing at number six on the list, alongside her 42-year-old husband, Swiss biotechnology tycoon Ernesto Bertarelli.

Next on the list are Hans Rausing and family, who developed the Tetra Pak; the shipping owner John Fredriksen; the retail millionaires Sir Philip and Lady Green; and David and Simon Reuben, who have been active in the British property market for a decade, after making their fortune in aluminium.