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Dan Gertler (born December 1973) is an Israeli billionaire businessman and the founder and President of the DGI (Dan Gertler International) Group of Companies. He has major diamond and copper mining interests in the low-income Republic of the Congo (DRC), the most resource rich country in the world. He has also invested in iron ore, gold, cobalt, agriculture, banking and oil.〔 Gertler has previously been described as "controversial", being accused of making most of his $2.5bn fortune from "looting Congo at the expense of its people". Gertler himself claimed he should be awarded a Nobel Prize for his "work developing the Democratic Republic of the Congo" despite the country's persistent ranking at the bottom of the UN's development index.〔 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 with a fortune of $4.1 billion.〔 〕 ==Background== Dan Gertler was born in December 1973. He is a grandson of Moshe Schnitzer, first President and co-founder of the Israeli Diamond Exchange in 1947,〔 〕 who won the Israel Prize in 2004. His family was traditionally involved in cutting and merchandising diamonds. While growing up, Gertler spent as much time as he could learning about the diamond trade from his father and grandfather. As soon as he had completed his 3-year mandatory service in the Israeli Defense Forces he opened his own diamond business. Gertler founded the Dan Gertler International (DGI) group of companies in 1996.〔 〕 The ''Yedioth Aharonoth'' weekend supplement on 19 September 1999 asserted that in 1997 Gertler had been involved in financing a program to buy diamonds in Liberia and Sierra Leone in exchange for military training and arms deliveries. The plan fell apart due to the chaotic political changes and military events in Sierra Leone at that time.〔 Gertler was also involved in trading in Russia and Guinea.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dan Gertler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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