Dan Gertler
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Dan Gertler
Born December 1973 (age 44)
Residence Israel
Nationality Israeli
Occupation Businessman
Years active 1996–present
Net worth Increase US$ 1.22 billion (2017)[1]
Title President, DGI (Dan Gertler International) Group of Companies
Term 1996–present
Spouse(s) Anat Gertler
Relatives Moshe Schnitzer (grandfather)
Shmuel Schnitzer (uncle)
Dan Gertler (born 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.[2] As of 2015 his fortune was estimated at 1,26 billion by Forbes.[3]
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[4] and says of himself, he should be awarded a Nobel Prize for his "work developing the Democratic Republic of the Congo".[2] The Panama papers revealed deals carried out through Mossack Fonseca shell companies, among his many offshore companies.
Effective December 21, 2017, US President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 13818 implementing the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act and listed Gertler in the Annex, resulting in the blocking of his assets under U.S. jurisdiction as a result of these sanctions.[5]