If you have been sickened by media mentions of Lord Mandelson's £2.4 million townhouse and £1 million European Union pay-off, consider that his wealth is nothing compared to the fortunes of really wealthy politicians. Even Arnold Schwarzenegger's hundreds of millions do not make our list...

1 Suleiman Kerimov - $17.5 billion

The far-right Russian senator from Dagestan struck it rich as a stakeholder in Gazprom, Russia's gas export company, and Sberbank, Eastern Europe's largest bank. Kerimov, 42, made news in 2006 when he was seriously injured after losing control of his Ferrari on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. His passenger, Playboy covergirl Tina Kandelaki, suffered minor injuries

2 Michael Bloomberg - $11.5 billion

The 66-year-old independent mayor of New York City made his billions from sales of stockmarket-tracking systems and later the Bloomberg newswire and related services after he was fired from Salomon Brothers, the investment bank, with a $10 million severance package in 1981. He has donated more than $1.4 billion to good causes and draws $1 a year for his work as mayor

3 Serge Dassault - $9.9 billion

The French aviation mogul is a member of Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party, a senator, and mayor of Corbeil-Essonnes in Paris. He inherited Groupe Dassault from his father Marcel, who was deported to Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944 for his refusal to collaborate with the Nazis. In 1998, Dassault Jr. was given a two-year suspended sentence for corruption in the Agusta scandal

4 Silvio Berlusconi - $9.4 billion

Italy's larger-than-life prime minister (pictured, above) is weathering the crunch well - reportedly purchasing a 30-room neo-classical villa on Lake Maggiore and doubling the size of his Villa San Martino outside Milan. The super-magnate, who owns much of the country's media and AC Milan football club, laid the foundations of his fortune as a property developer during the late 1960s

5 Aburizal Bakri - $9.2 billion

The chief welfare minister of Indonesia inherited control of the vast Bakrie Group from his father, a partisan of Suharto. He ran into controversy in 2006 when drilling by a Bakrie-controlled oil and gas outfit allegedly triggered a mudslide which displaced thousands. He has been branded the "national avatar of government by conflict of interest" in the Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus

6 Rinat Akhmetov - $7.3 billion

A member of parliament for Ukraine's opposition, Rinat Akhmetov is also his country's wealthiest tycoon, with a massive coal and steel empire. Last year he founded the Foundation for Effective Governance to support economic development in Ukraine, counting Shimon Peres, the Nobel Laureate, and Hernando de Soto, the Peruvian economist, among speakers at its launch

7 Andrei Molchanov - $4 billion

The 37-year-old construction baron is a member of Russia's upper house and the adopted son of Yury Molchanov, deputy governor of St Petersburg - himself a former university colleague of Vladimir Putin. In 2005, Molchanov Jr.'s company LSR Group controversially demolished a fine 18th century barracks in St Petersburg, after it was quietly de-listed by the city authorities

8 Gleb Fetisov - $3.9 billion

The third Russian senator on our list built his fortune trading commodities in the vast Alfa Group and remains a stakeholder in Altimo, Alfa's telcoms holding company. The latter is set for "aggressive" expansion in developing markets in Asia, such as Iran and Afghanistan. Holding a doctorate in economics from Moscow State University, Fetisov maintains a low media profile

9 Kostyantin Zhevago - $3.4 billion

A member of Ukraine's parliament and aide to prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the 34-year-old oligarch began his career as finance director of the bank Finance & Credit at 19. He has since acquired a control of the latter's holding company and plans to take the bank public by 2010. Last week, Zhevago was forced to sell 20 per cent of his mining venture Ferrexpo to clear a loan from JP Morgan

10 Saad Hariri - $3.3 billion

The son and political heir of assassinated Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri leads the Future Movementultra-tight security and is said to enjoy Cuban cigars and scuba diving parliamentary majority in Beirut and heads Saudi Oger, the family's Riyadh-based construction, banking and telecoms empire. The graduate of Georgetown University in Washington DC lives amid

EXTRA: Three super-rich politicians who don't make the list...

Arnold Schwarzenegger - $200 million-plus

Hank Paulson - $700 million-plus

John Kerry - $230 million-plus

媒体报道说，曼德尔森男爵拥有价值240万英镑的住宅、并且还从欧盟领取1百万英镑的薪水。如果你觉得这些财富已经高得惊人，那就看看这些真正富有的政治家吧，和他们相比男爵的财产简直不值一提，就连阿诺德·施瓦辛格这样财产上亿的富豪也未能跻身其列……

1苏莱曼·克里莫夫（Suleiman Kerimov） - 175亿美元

来自达吉斯坦的极右翼议员，名下的财富包括在俄罗斯天然气工业股份公司和俄罗斯国有储蓄银行拥有的股份，这两家企业分别是俄罗斯最大的天然气出口公司和东欧最大的银行。克里莫夫今年42岁，在2006年的一次车祸中严重受伤以后成为新闻人物，当时他在尼斯的海边林荫大道上驾驶法拉利车失控，同车的《花花公子》封面女郎蒂娜· 坎德拉奇受了轻伤。

2迈克尔·布隆伯格（Michael Bloomberg） - 115亿美元

现年66岁的无党派人士、纽约市市长。1981年他被投资银行所罗门兄弟公司解职，得到了1亿美元的解雇补偿费，随后，他先是出售股票市场追踪分析系统，后来又通过出售博彭新闻专线及相关服务成为亿万富翁。他向社会公益事业累计捐赠14亿美元，但是在担任市长期间，每年只领取1美元的工资。

3塞日尔·达索（Serge Dassault） - 99亿美元

法国航空业巨头、尼古拉斯·萨科齐领导的法国人民运动联盟党议员、巴黎科尔贝-埃松市市长。他从父亲马赛尔手里继承了达索集团。马赛尔曾因为拒绝与纳粹合作，1944年被关进布痕瓦尔德集中营，而他的儿子却因为卷入阿科斯塔丑闻，在1998年被判两年徒型，缓期执行。

4西尔维奥·贝卢斯科尼（Silvio Berlusconi） - 94亿美元

信贷危机对意大利富有传奇色彩的总理（题头照片）影响甚微：传闻说他在马焦雷湖畔新近购买了一套有30个房间的新现实主义别墅，而且把他在米兰郊外的圣马丁诺别墅扩大了一倍。意大利媒体业的绝大部分都在这位超级富豪名下，包括AC米兰足球俱乐部。他是从二十世纪六十年代晚期崭露头角，积累起上述财富。

5阿布里扎尔·巴克利（Aburizal BAKRIE）- 92亿美元

印度尼西亚的福利部长，父亲是苏哈托的强硬支持者。他从父亲手中继承了规模宏大的巴克利集团，2006年因石油天然气开采引发的泥石流导致数千人被迫重新安置，引发了争论，并被《亚太期刊：焦点日本》列为“政府违背公众利益行为的国家形象代言人”。

6 雷纳托·阿克梅托夫（Rinat Akhmetov） - 73亿美元

乌克兰反对党议员、全乌克兰最富有的企业界巨头、掌握着实力雄厚的煤炭、钢铁帝国。去年他建立起“有效管理基金”支持乌克兰的经济发展。在基金成立仪式上，诺贝尔奖获得者希蒙·佩雷斯、秘鲁经济学家赫尔南多·德·索托都到场发表了讲话。

7 安德烈·莫恰诺夫（Andrei Molchanov） - 40亿美元

37岁的建筑业巨子，俄罗斯上议院议员，是圣彼得堡市副市长尤里·莫恰诺夫的养子。安德烈本人还是弗拉基米尔·普京的大学同学。2005年，小莫恰诺夫的公司LSR集团不顾反对，拆毁了一座18世纪具有代表性的部队营房，该营房位于圣彼得堡。从那以后，安德烈就悄然远离了该市的权力机构。

8 格列博·费迪索夫（Gleb Fetisov） - 39亿美元

名单上的第三位俄罗斯议员、名下的阿尔法集团规模巨大，从事日用品销售，另外他还是阿尔法电信的控股公司阿尔基莫（Altimo）的股东。后者在亚洲国家市场，如伊朗和阿富汗的业务扩展“势头凶猛”。费迪索夫获得过莫斯科州立大学的博士学位，一直保持着不引人注目的媒体形象。

9 科斯特扬丁·萨维果（Kostyantin Zhevago） - 34亿美元

乌克兰议员、尤利娅·季莫申科总理的助手，现年34岁，寡头政治的支持者。从19岁担任金融信贷银行的财务经理开始，他逐渐取得了该银行的控股权，并计划在2010年将该行上市。上个星期，萨维果被迫出售他拥有的Ferrexpo股份的20%，以偿还JP摩根的贷款。

10萨阿德·哈里里（Saad Hariri）- 33亿美元

被刺杀的黎巴嫩前总理拉菲克·哈里里的儿子、继任人，他领导的未来运动在贝鲁特议会占据多数席位，同时他也是位于利雅德的家族企业Saudi Oger的领导人，该企业在银行和电信业占据庞大份额。萨阿德毕业于华盛顿特区乔治敦大学，主张在生活中严格保证安全，据说酷爱古巴雪茄和斯库巴潜水（呼吸器潜水）。

另外，还有三位财产过人的政治家未能进入前十名……

阿诺德·施瓦辛格 - 超过2亿美元

汉克·保尔森（Hank Paulson） – 超过7亿美元

约翰·克里（John Kerry） – 超过2.30亿美元