Age: 56yrs

Birth Place: Kyrgyzstan

Industry: Oil and mining Industrialist

Biggest Hold Back: Government

Networth: $1.9bn

Company Website: www.enrc.com

Alijan Ibragimov was brought up in Kyrgyzstan, and was brought up in poverty for his early years. However his background did not stop him becoming a billionaire. Early in his career Alijan had decided he wanted to work for himself rather than work hard hours of manual labour, in the poverty stricken country. He and a number of his friends got together and formed aoligarchs, known as “The Trio”. The Trio includes Alijan himself, and business partners Alexander Mashkevich and Patokh Chodiev. Their business was within the oil and gas industry in which they mined for the resources.

The Trio then became major shareholders in the global group Eurasian National Resources Corporation (ENRC), which now resides in London and is in control of a plethora of assets within the Eastern hemisphere. ENRC went on to make over $1,400 million in profits, through sales of nearly $4 billion. However the government allegedly “forced” Alijan, into selling a quarter of his shares in ENRC to a fellow billionaire, named Kazakh. Alijan has been named in the Forbes list of top richest people in the world, and is still on the list to this day.