Mr Sudhir Ruparelia is Number 18 on Africa’s 40 Richest list – Forbes

Sudhir Ruparelia

Net Worth

 

$900 M As of November 2012

 

Sudhir Ruparelia runs one of Uganda’s largest privately owned conglomerates, the eponymous Ruparelia Group. It owns hundreds of Ugandan properties, hotels, a country club, a chain of foreign exchange bureaus, a business that grows and exports roses and Crane Bank, the country’s second largest commercial bank. Born in Uganda, Ruparelia moved to the United Kingdom with his parents at age 16 after President Idi Amin expelled all Asians from the East African country in 1972. While in the U.K, Ruparelia worked small jobs. He returned to Uganda in 1985 with $25,000 in savings with which he started a commodities trading business and Uganda’s first foreign exchange bureau, the basis of the much larger business he owns today.

Rank	Name	Net Worth ($ mil)	Age
1	Aliko Dangote	$12,000	55
2	Nicky Oppenheimer & family	$6,400	67
3	Johann Rupert & family	$5,700	62
4	Nassef Sawiris	$5,500	51
5	Mike Adenuga	$4,600	59
6	Christoffel Wiese	$3,700	71
7	Othman Benjelloun	$2,750	80
8	Patrice Motsepe	$2,650	50
9	Naguib Sawiris	$2,500	58
10	Mohamed Mansour	$2,200	64
11	Onsi Sawiris	$2,170	82
12	Miloud Chaabi	$2,100	83
13	Yasseen Mansour	$2,000	51
14	Youssef Mansour	$1,950	67
15	Desmond Sacco	$1,400	70
16	Anas Sefrioui	$1,350	55
17	Stephen Saad	$975	48
18	Sudhir Ruparelia	$900	56
19	Jim Ovia	$825	58
20	Shafik Gabr	$720	60