A trillion dollars is roughly two years of the entire Russian national exports, and I don’t think he has the capacity to pocket 10% of the total exports every year for the last twenty.

The corruption needed to enable that level of loss would imply other people having the opportunity, and I expect competition between different corrupt officials would limit any one person.

Perhaps I’m wrong — I’m not knowledgeable, this is just based on what feels like a plausible upper level to me.

Four oligarchs died under suspicious circumstances in the last, what, a week? Who gets their assets? FSB will gather them up.

Nobody can be sure of the numbers. Most of us can't count that high in one lifetime.

> Nobody can be sure of the numbers.

Naturally, but the other estimates I’ve seen — even recently — put him between 70 and 274 billion. A quarter to a 14th of what you’re suggesting. While anything over about 2 billion is uncountable in a human lifetime, the lower number does not feel entirely unbelievable, in the way a trillion does.