Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev — currently the 564th richest person on Earth — made the news in September 2011 when he used his KGB-acquired combat skills to punch fellow tycoon Sergei Polonsky out of his chair on a live Russian TV program.But how many other former Soviet secret police agents are there who could be listed in Forbes — or who at the very least earn big bucks in the capitalist economy despite their communist past? We list 10 former KGB men who are now staggeringly wealthy.
But how many other former Soviet secret police agents are there who could be listed in Forbes — or who at the very least earn big bucks in the capitalist economy despite their communist past? We list 10 former KGB men who are now staggeringly wealthy.
We list 10 former KGB men who are now staggeringly wealthy.