This year Romanian businessman Dinu Patriciu is for the first time on the Forbes list of richest 16 Eastern Europeans. He is classed on 10 with a wealth estimated at 2.5 billion dollars before another rich Romanian businessman Ion Tiriac who is ranked 14 with a wealth estimated at 1.2 billion dollars.

Patriciu was included in the Forbes list after he sold his majority of Rompetrol shares to the Kazakh company KazMunaiGaz. This year's list of billionaires included many from Ukraine and Poland.