New Delhi: A day after the blogging site put Congress President Sonia in the list of world's richest leaders, the Huffington Post deleted her name from the list saying the site could not independently verify the value of her wealth. But the damage had been done. The ever active twitterati pounced on the issue, slamming the website for 'inaccurate compilation' of the list. The Huffington Post had placed Congress president Sonia Gandhi at 12th place on the list of richest political leader in the world. With $2 billion wealth, Gandhi was stated to be richer than the British Queen Elizabeth II, Sultan of Oman Qaboos bin Said and Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.

To compile the list, Huffington Post compared each country's GDP per capita juxtaposed with a leader's personal net worth, just to show 'how different life is for the haves and have-nots'. The list included kings, presidents, sultans and queens. The richest leaders among the top 20 originated from the Middle East region. The report puts Russian President Vladimir Putin on the top of the list with a wealth of $40 billion, followed by King of Thailand Bhumibol Adulyadej with fortunes worth $30 billion.