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Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara (born 5 July 1956〔 18 April 2013, terra.com.br, (Horacio Cartes, o multimilionário candidato à presidência do Paraguai )〕) is a Paraguayan businessman, and current Paraguay's president, elected as of the April 2013 elections, since 15 August 2013. He is a member of the Colorado Party. Cartes owns about two dozen businesses in his Grupo Cartes conglomerate including tobacco, soft drinks, meat production,〔 and banking. He was president of Club Libertad football club from 2001 until 2012,〔http://www.d10.com.py:805/futbol/primera-division/club/libertad/26374-cartes-seguira-muy-cerca〕 and had been the president of the national team department of the Paraguayan Football Association during the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification.〔''The Independent'', 19 April 2013, (Horacio Cartes: Millionaire. Criminal. Business titan. Homophobe. The next president of Paraguay? )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jonathan Santana se nacionalizó paraguayo )〕 ==Business career== Cartes' father was the owner of a Cessna aircraft franchise holding company and the young Horacio studied aeronautical engineering in the United States. At the age of 19, he started a currency exchange business which grew into the Banco Amambay. Over the following years, Cartes bought or helped establish 25 companies including Tabesa, the country's biggest cigarette manufacturer, and a major fruit juice bottling company. In 1986, Cartes spent 60 days in jail during a currency fraud investigation. He was accused of making millions of dollars on a central bank loan obtained at a preferential exchange rate and then moving it through his money exchange business before buying farm equipment in the U.S. The case was eventually dropped. Cartes was imprisoned on charges of currency fraud for seven months in 1989. He was eventually cleared by a court.〔 In 2000, the anti-drug police seized a plane carrying cocaine and marijuana on his ranch. He claimed that the plane had made an emergency landing, that he had no involvement with the drug trade and that he opposed the legalization of narcotics. Cartes' name appears in the Offshore leaks files in connection with a Cook Islands financial entity linked to Cartes' Paraguayan bank Banco Amambay.〔''Reporters without Borders'', 18 April 2013, (CAMPAIGN MARKED BY CENSORSHIP, POST-ELECTION REPRISALS FEARED )〕〔 ''Diario ABC Color'', 16 April 2013, (Banco para “alternativas no disponibles en Paraguay” )〕〔ICIJ, 15 April 2013, (Bank Owned by Paraguay’s Leading Presidential Candidate Linked to Tax Haven )〕 A classified WikiLeaks cable from 2010 mentioned Cartes as the focus of a money laundering investigation by the DEA.〔''Buenos Aires Herald'', 22 April 2013, (Horacio Cartes wins comfortably in Paraguay )〕〔 14 November 2011, ''Última Hora'', (WikiLeaks: Cartes desmiente lavado de dinero en el Banco Amambay )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://wikileaks.org/cable/2010/01/10BUENOSAIRES5.html )〕 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「Horacio Cartes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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