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Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. Anil's elder brother, Mukesh Ambani, is also
worth more than a billion dollars, and owns another company called Reliance Industries.
With an estimated personal wealth of $13.7 billion, he is the fourth richest Indian in the
world, behind Mukesh Ambani,Lakshmi Mittal and Azim Premji.[3]
Contents
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• 1 Career
o 1.1 Assassination attempt
• 2 Awards and Recognition
• 3 Personal life
o 3.1 Travel
• 4 English Premier League
• 5 Bibliography
• 6 References
• 7 External links
[edit] Career
Ambani joined Reliance, the company founded by his late father Dhirubhai Ambani, in
1983 as Co-Chief Executive Officer and is credited with having pioneered many financial
innovations in the Indian capital markets. For example, he led India's first forays into
overseas capital markets with international public offerings of global depositary receipts,
convertibles and bonds. He directed Reliance in its efforts to raise, since 1991, around
US$2 billion from overseas financial markets; with a 100-year Yankee bond issue in
January 1997 being the high point, after which people regarded him as a financial
wizard[citation needed]. He along with his brother, Mukesh Ambani, has steered the Reliance
Group to its current status as India's leading textiles, petroleum, petrochemicals, power,
and telecom company.
He has been linked with several starlets in his long career including his current wife of
more than 15 years. He is a close friend of movie star Amitabh Bachchan and Subrata
Roy.One of his major achievements in the entertainment industry is the takeover of
Adlabs, the movie production to distribution to multiplex company that owns India's only
dome theatre and the recently announced joint venture worth US$ 825 million with
Steven Spielberg
He has been embroiled in a dispute with his brother, Mukesh Ambani, over the supply of
gas from the latter's KG basin..
He recently topped Business Sheet's "world's biggest loser" list of business leaders who
lost money in the Late 2000s recession [4], losing $32.5 billion in 2008, which brought
him out of the top ten list to number 34 in 2009.
On the evening of 23 April 2009, mud, gravel and pebbles were found in his 13-seat
helicopter VT-RCL's (a Bell 412) gearbox.[5] Despite the gear box being located at a
height of 10 feet from the ground, the gravel and pebbles were put in the filler cap in the
gear box. A senior pilot of Reliance Transport and Travels Pvt. Ltd., Captain RN Joshi
filed a complaint with the Mumbai Police Commissioner's office, Maharashtra Chief
Minister's office, Maharasthra Home Minister's office, Chief Secretary's office, Joint
Commissioner of Police's office and also at the Santa Cruz Police Station.
The helicopter was standing outside a hangar at the Mumbai Airport when the sabotage
was found by Bharat Borge, a technician for Air Works. Borge was found dead on April
28, 2009 on Mumbai's suburban railway tracks between Vile Parle and Andheri. A letter
was also found with him. Railway Police believes that he might have been run over by
the Churchgate-bound fast-local. "Borge's mysterious death created a flutter, lending
credence to Anil Ambani's charge that certain 'rival business groups were trying to
eliminate him'. "[6][7]
The post-mortem conducted on Bharat Borge revelated that he died of shock due to
multiple fractures, resulting in brain haemorrhage.[8] There was also a letter found in his
pocket written in marathi saying "I haven't done anything wrong. That day, some
Reliance people came and spoke to me. I didn't tell them anything. One of them took my
number and said that he'll talk to me later. I felt they were using me. I am writing this
letter after thinking all night. It looks like the blame will be on me. I think the
investigation is on the right track and truth will emerge soon."[8]
Investigators later said that Borge's death was an accident and not suicide.[9]
Airworks India Engineering Pvt. Ltd., the company that maintains the helicopter, was
questioning its employees in the case.[10]
He drinks 6 litres of water every day and likes to eat Pav Bhaji. [4]
[edit] Travel