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[2] in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and has invested in iron ore, gold, cobalt, oil, agriculture, and banking.[3] He may also hold citizenship of that country.[1] As of 2022[update] his fortune was estimated at $1.2 billion by Forbes.[4]
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".[5] 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, blocking all of Gertler's assets under U.S. jurisdiction.[1] 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.[6] However, on January 15, 2021 the US Treasury lifted the sanctions on Gertler,[7][8] though the Biden administration quickly restored the sanctions on March 8, 2021.[9]
^ abcTrump, Donald (21 December 2017). "Executive Order Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption". whitehouse.gov – via National Archives.
^"DRC:The grey areas of the Dan Gertler deal". The Africa Report. 7 March 2022.
^Franz Wild, Michael J. Kavanagh and Jonathan Ferziger (5 December 2012). "Gertler Earns Billions as Mine Deals Leave Congo Poorest". Bloomberg Markets. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
^"Dan Gertler". Forbes. 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
^Neate, Rupert (9 December 2012). "ENRC ends Congo mining deal with controversial billionaire Dan Gertler". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
^"Donald Trump has shown a surprising enthusiasm for sanctions - Financial carpet-bombing". The Economist. Washington, DC. 28 November 2019. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
^Wilson, Tom; Hume, Neil; Politi, James (25 January 2021). "Dan Gertler wins reprieve from US sanctions over alleged Congo corruption Trump administration eased restrictions on Israeli billionaire days before president left office". The Financial Times.
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^"Israeli Billionaire Loses Trump-Granted Sanction Reprieve". Bloomberg. 8 March 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
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