Usmanov: five things you might not know about UK's richest man

Billionaire tycoon made money from Facebook, spent six years in prison and met his gymnast wife fencing

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RUSSIAN BUSINESSMAN Alisher Usmanov is officially Britain's wealthiest man, according to the Sunday Times rich list. The 59-year-old Uzbek-born oligarch has an estimated £13.3bn fortune which he made through mining and oil companies. Here are five things you might not know about the Arsenal-loving, fencing-mad billionaire:

He started out with plastic bags: According to the International Business Times Usmanov began his career manufacturing plastic bags but soon extended his empire, co-founding mining business Metalloinvest. He also owns a stake in mobile phone operator MegaFon and email business mail.ru, as well as several Russian TV channels and Kommersant, a national newspaper.

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