Dan Gertler, Date of Birth
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Israeli billionaire businessman in natural resources and the founder and President of the DGI
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About Dan Gertler
- 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 2015 his fortune was estimated at $1.26 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.
- The Panama papers revealed deals carried out through Mossack Fonseca shell companies, among his many offshore companies. Effective 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.
- According 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.
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