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by GFischer 5529 days ago
Have you read Roman Abramovich's biography? He stole close to that amount, too.

He started out selling stolen gasoline, then, after a stint in the black market, he eventually stole a train containing 55 cisterns of diesel fuel !! , ended up as friends of the mafia-government, which sold him Gazprom for only 100 million dollars (it is worth billions).

According to Wikipedia, Abramovich later admitted in court that he paid huge bribes (in billions) to government officials and obtained protection from gangsters to acquire these and other assets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Abramovich