Queen Elizabeth II , reportedly has a net worth of $450 Million and stands among the top of the list of the 15 richest head of states in the world. Some Asians like the King of Thailand and the Sultan of Brunei are worth more. At $30 Billion and $20 Billion respectively, they stood at number 2 and 3 of the list, with the number 1 position taken up by the Russian politician, Vladimir Putin who has a net worth of $40 Billion. Among the list of the richest head of state, past and present, the only Chinese is probably just China's premier, Wen Jiabao(inset), that is if you do not consider the former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra to be Chinese but Thai. Thaksin's great-grandfather, Seng Sae Khu, was an immigrant from Meizhou, Guangdong, China and his eldest son, Chiang Sae Khu had married a Thai woman named Saeng Somna and somehow, the family later adopted the Thai surname Shinawatra. Not too long ago, the New York Times reported that Wen Jiabao's family had accumulated at least $2.7 billion in assets in various sectors. Later, the Chinese premier whose wife, Zhang Peili is involved in the diamond trade, had himself made a request to be investigated.
Who is the richest here? Who is the richest, not here?
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