Uğur Şahin became ‘the richest Turk in the world’ – his fortune was $ 5.1 billion



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Shares of the Germany-based company BioNTech, which developed the Covid-19 vaccine with US company Pfizer, rose more than 250 percent this year.

The increase in the value of BionTEch shares traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange in the US, Dr. Along with Özlem Türeci, the scientists who developed the vaccine and BioNTech shareholders, Prof. Dr. With his fortune of 5.1 billion dollars, made Uğur Şahin one of the 500 richest people in the world.

Shahin’s wealth increased by $ 3.7 billion this year.

BioNTech’s share price, which started the year at $ 38.5, is today at $ 120. The market value of the company is now at the $ 28.9 billion level.

According to data from Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index, Uğur Şahin, who has an 18.8 percent stake in BioTEch and is also the CEO of the company, has increased his fortune by $ 3.7 billion to $ 5.12 billion since beginning of the year and is the richest in the world. I was among 500 people. Uğur Şahin was the only Turk on the list.

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First on the list of the richest people in the world is Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, with a fortune of $ 185 billion. Tesla boss Elon Musk is in second place with his fortune of $ 145 billion, and Microsoft boss Bill Gates with $ 129 billion in third place.

THE RICH IN TURKEY Murat Ülker

Forbes magazine in Turkey, according to the list published in March 2020, the name of the richest in Turkey, with a fortune of 4.7 billion dollars, Murat Ülker.

The chairman of Rönesans Holding, Erman Ilıcak, who is also the contractor for the Presidential Complex in Beştepe, ranks second after Ülker, the chairman of the Board of Directors of Yıldız Holding. Ilıcak’s fortune is $ 3.2 billion.

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