Forbes made a rating of billionaires who are in jail or under investigation

Measured in billions of dollars the state does not guarantee freedom, says the magazine Forbes, published the list of 11 richest people in the world who have been in prison or wanted by the police. In this list, two Russians - Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, representing the top management of bankrupt oil and gas giant Yukos. Khodorkovsky, once held the title of richest Russians with a capital size of $ 15 billion, Lebedev only once got into the club of billionaires.Khodorkovsky and Lebedev were sentenced in 2005 to eight years in prison on charges of fraud and tax evasion. The second criminal case brought against them in 2006 for allegedly embezzling 350 million tons of oil. Both denied their guilt, considering the persecution against them politically motivated. Until recently, the richest citizen of China (as of October 2008) Juan Guanyuya also migrated into the category of prisoners. Guanyuya owned a vast network of shops selling electronics and manufacturing company of household appliances. In May he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for various financial fraud and bribes to officials in excess of 600 thousand dollars. American billionaire Allen Stanford can claim the record in this list of the richest period in prison inmates - he faces 250 years in prison for the establishment of a financial pyramid of about $ 8 billion. The verdict in the past owner finance company that bears his name, will be imposed only in 2011 to more than 20 counts. Stanford himself has pleaded not guilty. Ten years to be behind bars Italian billionaire Calisto Tanzi, recognized in 2009, convicted of fraud and making money on the collapse of his group owned by Parmalat. This case is the press dubbed "the Italian Enron. Tanzi owned one of the world's best collections of paintings, including canvases by Van Gogh, Picasso and Modigliani, which was confiscated after the sentence comes into force. For some of the billionaires on the list did not turn the prison wallet - an American, Alfred Taubman, former head of auction house Sotheby's, was able to return to the club of billionaires once held in jail nine months on charges of fraud in the bidding. Taubman has always insisted that was not guilty. But for Martha Stewart four months of imprisonment turned profits - stocks owned by her company Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia rose in price almost doubled, concluded owner of billions of dollars. Now, though, Stewart is not listed in the official ranking of billionaires, but this is hardly the fact it overshadows the joy of free life. Three persons from a list of billionaires, who had already served his sentence, or imprisoned, are on the run - a Mexican drug baron Joaquin Guzman Loher, a Turkish businessman Kemal Uzan and former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, accused of terrorism.