Net Worth: $334 million

Age: 54

Marital status: Married

Last year: $295 million (2007)

Industry: Agriculture

In just one year, Evgeny Sigal dropped out of the list of Ukraine’s 50 richest, but then returned to the list with an excellent financial result. His shares have only lost $61 million since 2007, around 15percent, which in the current climate is manna from heaven. But the year has not all been plain sailing for the co-owner of Agromars. He even had a quarrel with his party boss. And Sigal’s boss is a parliamentary deputy from BYuT, an anything but simple person – Yulia Tymoshenko. In summer last year, the prime minister allowed masses of cheap chicken imports into the country to halt rising prices. Foreseeing devastation, Sigal said, “These are gangster imports; quality meat can’t be so cheap. … If it carries on like this, domestic producers will be destroyed in literally two months.” But Sigal survived. In March 2009, the government announced the beginning of an anti-dumping investigation into US and Brazilian poultry imports. Sigal understood: there is justice; you just have to fight for it.