King Power duty free billionaire built his fortune in Asia and died at the scene of his Premier League triumph
Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha’s rise to become one of the wealthiest men in Thailand was eclipsed, in Britain at least, by his part in arguably the most remarkable story in the history of English football.
Born Vichai Raksriaksorn in April 1958 in Bangkok, to a Thai-Chinese family, Vichai has expanded his empire while managing to straddle Thailand’s toxic political divide. Vichai’s own upward trajectory in business started relatively late. He opened his first duty free shop in downtown Bangkok in 1989, but it wasn’t until 2006 that King Power secured the exclusive rights to duty free stores in the Thai capital’s Suvarnabhumi airport, now the 12th busiest in the world.
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