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Dan Gertler (born 23 December 1973) is an Israeli billionaire businessman in natural resources and the founder and President of the DGI (Dan Gertler International) Group of Companies. He has diamond and copper mining interests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and has invested in iron ore, gold, cobalt , oil, agriculture, and banking.1He may also hold citizenship of that country.2As of 2015 his fortune was estimated at $1.26 billion by Forbes.3Gertler's deals have been under scrutiny by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank since 2012. He has been described as controversial. The Panama papers revealed deals carried out through Mossack Fonseca shell companies, among his many offshore companies.4Effective 21 December 2017, US President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 13818 implementing the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act and listed Gertler in the Annex, which blocked all of Gertler's assets that were under U.S. jurisdiction.5According to The Economist , the implementation of these sanctions was probably one of the reasons that Gertler's close friend, then-President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Joseph Kabila decided to not run for re-election in the December 2018 general election .6
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Dan Gertler (born December 1973) is an Israeli businessman and the founder and President of the DGI (Dan Gertler International) Group of Companies. He has large interests in diamonds and copper mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), formerly Zaire , the largest country in sub-Saharan Africa. He has also invested in iron ore, gold, cobalt, agriculture, banking and oil. Since the 2000s offshore companies associated with Dan Gertler, a friend of Augustin Katumba Mwanke, purchased mining projects directly from the Congolese government. This move has been seen as controversial by some. Gertler denies any wrongdoing and asserts that he is helping the Congolese people by providing jobs, schools and other basic supplies. In 2013 Dan Gertler was one of seventeen billionaires from Israel who was listed in 670th place on the Forbes list of billionaires with a fortunes of $2.2 billion. His partner in Global Enterprises Corporate (GEC), mining magnate Beny Steinmetz , ranked in 316th place a fortune of $4.1 billion. Jerusalem Post. : |author= has generic name ( help )
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Israeli billionaire businessman Dan Gertler (born 23 December 1973) is an Israeli billionaire businessman in natural resources and the founder and president of the DGI (Dan Gertler International) group of companies. He has diamond and copper mining interests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and has invested in iron ore, gold, cobalt , oil, agriculture, and banking. He may also hold citizenship of that country. As of 2022 his fortune was estimated at $1.2 billion by Forbes . Gertler's deals have been under scrutiny by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank since 2012. He has been described as "controversial", and as making most of his fortune from "looting Congo at the expense of its people". The Panama papers revealed deals carried out through Mossack Fonseca shell companies, among his many offshore companies. The implementation of these sanctions was probably one of the reasons that Gertler's close friend, then-President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Joseph Kabila , decided not to run for re-election in the 2018 election . However, on January 15, 2021 the US Treasury lifted the sanctions on Gertler, though the Biden administration quickly restored the sanctions on March 8, 2021."Dan Gertler wins reprieve from US sanctions over alleged Congo corruption Trump administration eased restrictions on Israeli billionaire days before president left office" .
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Israeli billionaire businessman Dan Gertler ( Hebrew : דן גרטלר ; born 23 December 1973) is an Israeli billionaire businessman in natural resources and the founder and president of the DGI (Dan Gertler International) group of companies. Until 2022, his group had mining and oil interests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and has invested in diamonds , iron ore, gold, cobalt , copper , agriculture, and banking.As of 2024 his fortune was estimated at $1.5 billion by Forbes .
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israeli businessman and the founder and president of the dgi
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israeli businessman
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Business career
International Diamond Industries-Congo (IDI-Congo)
Fleurette Group and Fleurette Properties, 2006
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