The founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos (Jeff Bezos) climbed back to the top of the global index billionaires of Bloomberg, surpassing Tesla, SpaceX and X chief Elon Musk, who had stripped him of the title in 2021.

According to the ranking given yesterday, Monday, to the public, the estate of Bezos now amounts to 200 billion dollarssurpassing Musk’s, which is valued at $198 billion.

The French CEO of luxury goods group LVMH Bernard Arnault remains in Third Place of the ranking of the people with the greatest fortunes in the world, with 197 billion dollars.

Bezos, who will no longer run Amazon, which he founded in 1994, from July 2021, benefited mainly from the strong performance of shares in the online sales giant, of which he remains the main shareholder, and from the sale of his shares group in recent weeks totaling $8.5 billion.

The sale of those shares, however, could once again cost him the top spot on that list because of the capital gains taxes he will have to pay to the US tax authorities, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Elon Musk has seen his fortune drop by more than $30 billion due to the fall in the value of Tesla, which has lost nearly 25% in the past 12 months.

But the biggest blow to the fortune of the South African-born billionaire came when a judge in Delaware, in the eastern US, canceled in late January a Tesla stock compensation plan, estimated at 56 billion euros, that he had been granted in 2018.

One of the car company’s shareholders took legal action, considering this fee excessive.