If you combined the wealth of Forbes's top ten wealthiest men on the planet and all the world's gross domestic products, that number would still pale in comparison to the wealth of Ajit, a poor Indian farmer from Hathras, Uttar Pradesh.
Ajit's bank account currently sits at a whopping $1.18 sextillion in cash.
It started with two odd deposits of ₹1,800 (approx. $21.50 USD) and then one for ₹1,400 (approx. $16.70).
But then there was a massive deposit of ...
₹1,00,13,56,00,00,01,39,54,21,00,23,56,00,00,01,39,542 (approx $1.18 sextillion).
Here's what that looks like:
Live shot of Ajit:
(Very inaccurate, but I'll get to that in a few.)
Ajit and his wife were initially very excited about their windfall, but then they got worried about going to prison for fraud if they tried to spend it, so they did the right thing and alerted their bank.
The banking merchant explained that the entry was likely the result of a technical glitch originating from a branch in Jammu and Kashmir.
But the money didn't go away.
Still worried, Ajit alerted the police, who directed him to the cybercrime division.
And now Ajit is, in a way, even poorer than when this all started.
Ajit's account has been frozen, and he remains uncertain whether he has been the victim of fraud or caught in a banking system error.
So now all his actual money that he had in the bank before becoming a sextillionaire is inaccessible.
So I guess being the wealthiest man on the planet is a hard road to walk sometimes.
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