Eike Batista

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Eike Fuhrken Batista (born November 3, 1956 in Governador Valadares , Minas Gerais , Brazil ) is a German - Brazilian entrepreneur, magnate , owner and president of the Brazilian holding company EBX Group . In 2012 Batista was the seventh richest person in the world with a fortune of US $ 30 billion. In July 2013, his fortune was US $ 0.2 billion. a. because of falling share prices in his companies. After a criminal trial began against him at the beginning of 2015, he was taken into custody in January 2017. On July 3, 2018, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison for bribing the former governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro Sérgio Cabral , with an additional fine of R $ 53 million (at the time almost EUR 12 million ).

Life

In front of the Federal Police building in Bangu (RJ) 2016: Eike Batista is looked after by federal police officers

Batista is one of seven children of businessman Eliezer Batista, who was minister of mines and energy from 1961 to 1964 and 1979 to 1986 and former president of the then fully nationalized mining group Vale do Rio Doce . His mother, Jutta Fuhrken, was born in Germany. He spent his childhood in Brazil. As a teenager, Batista and his family moved to Europe because of their father's job. The batistas lived in Geneva, Düsseldorf and Brussels. When he was 18, his parents moved back to Brazil. Batista initially stayed in Europe and made a living selling insurance policies on doorsteps. He later sold diamonds and corned beef . In 1974 he started studying metallurgy at RWTH Aachen University . He left university at 22 and returned to Brazil in the early 1980s.

He prevailed as a seller by establishing contact between gold miners from the Amazon region and buyers in megacities in Brazil and Europe. At 23, he founded Autram aurem, a gold trading company, whose logo the Inca sun is. He started the first gold panning system in the Amazon, which marked the beginning of the EBX holding. A year and a half later, the company had raised $ 6 million . Batista insulted a gold digger who owed him money as a “son of a bitch”. As Batista retreated on foot, the miner shot him in the back with a revolver. He was far enough away that the effects weren't fatal - Batista's bodyguards later told him that they killed the miner.

At 29, he became the general manager of TVX Gold, a company listed on the Canadian Stock Exchange. This started his business relationships with the global capital markets. From 1980 to 2000, he created eight gold mines in Brazil, Canada and one silver mine in Chile, worth $ 20 billion. Between 1991 and 1996 the value of his company more than tripled.

Batista married the samba dancer Luma de Oliveira in 1991 and divorced her in 2004. They have two sons together, Olin and Thor. Thor Batista was charged with manslaughter in May 2012 following a traffic accident.

Batista runs, swims and does water sports. In the 1990s he was Brazilian and American champion of the Super Offshore Powerboat Class . In 2006 he covered 220 nautical miles between Santos and Rio de Janeiro in 3: 01.47 hours , setting a new course record with his boat Spirit of Brazil . He was instrumental in bringing the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics to Brazil.

Eike Batista led a public life until 2013, but then largely withdrew. His personal website with the latest articles, videos and news about his company was no longer accessible. Batista's most popular digital platform was Twitter, which also served as a communication tool for his personal messages. When his son Thor ran over a day laborer in 2012, Eike Batista denigrated the victim on Twitter that he had put his son's life in danger, which led to heavy criticism in the Brazilian media. Batista's microblog @eikebatista reached almost 1.4 million followers; At the end of May 2013 he sent his last tweets.

In 2011 Batista published the book The Heart of the Matter - The main point of the question , in which his career in the business world is presented and entrepreneurial tips can be found. His eccentric characteristics, such as his superstition and his attention to lucky numbers, are less noticed by the public.

As a philanthropist , he supported projects to promote social development, cultural diversity and the ecological balance. From 2006 onwards, he donated around BRL 253 million . In 2011 alone his donations amounted to 91 million BRL. Batista said, “I don't just want to be the richest in Brazil. I also want to be the most generous. ”The initiatives supported include projects in Lençóis Maranhenses, Marinho de Fernando de Noronha , Pantanal and in Mato Grosso , national parks, as well as eight productions of Brazilian films and donations to help build the Pro Children's hospital in Rio de Janeiro to complete. Since Batista could no longer maintain his financial support, the children's hospital was closed and much of the construction work he had sponsored was discontinued.

After the decline of his corporate empire, Batista had to answer several court proceedings. The victims hardest hit included a number of financial investors from the Middle East as well as the investment firm BlackRock from the USA. Batista's German partner in the energy business was E.ON . In May 2014, some of its creditors, such as Deutsche Bank , sued the highest court in New York State.

End of January 2017 Batista was in custody taken. Law enforcement officials accuse him of paying $ 16.5 million in bribes to former Rio de Janeiro state governor Sérgio Cabral Filho .

Batista is fluent in Portuguese, German, English, French and Spanish.

National and international rankings

International

In early 2012, Forbes Magazine named Batista the seventh richest man in the world and the richest man in South America, with an estimated fortune of US $ 30 billion. Eike Batista was also featured in Bloomberg Markets magazine as the only Brazilian on the list of the 50 most influential people in global finance, first published in September 2011. In March 2012, Bloomberg estimated its net worth at $ 34.5 billion. By August 2013, he had lost 99% of that and was only worth $ 200 million.

Brazil

At the end of 2010, Batista was the 58th most powerful person in the world according to Forbes, behind the newly elected President Dilma Rousseff in Brazil. The newspaper Folha de S. Paulo describes Batista as a typical example of a “self-made man”, an entrepreneur who came to his fortune through his own efforts and not through inheritance.

Batista said in 2008 that his goal was to become the richest man in the world within five years. In 2008, Batista's net worth was estimated at US $ 6.6 billion and he was ranked 142nd on the list of the richest men in the world. In 2009 he rose to 61st and was considered the richest man in Brazil.

The Brazilian weekly magazines Época and IstoÉ ranked Batista among the 100 most influential men in Brazil in 2010. In 2011, Batista was included in the ranking of 1000 general managers of Dinheiro magazine.

EBX

EBX Holding produces iron ore in the Brazilian states of Minas Gerais and Mato Grosso do Sul and has put Brazil's first commercial solar plant into operation. The holding is investing around US $ 15.5 billion in Brazil in 2011 and 2012 and is responsible for major projects in this country, such as LLX's Açu super port in São João da Barra (state of Rio de Janeiro RJ), MMX's Sudeste super port in Itaguaí (RJ) and the MPX thermal power plants in Itaqui (Maranhão MA state) and Pecém (Ceará CE state). These major energy and infrastructure projects are being carried out in parallel with the OGX exploratory drilling in the bays of Campos (RJ), Santos (São Paulo SP) and Parnaíba (MA), during which oil and gas were discovered. At present, 20,000 workers are working on construction and other operational areas for this holding project. Rio de Janeiro is the headquarters of the EBX Holding, which is also active in other nine Brazilian states. There is an office in New York (USA), Colombia and Chile. Aside from the infrastructure and natural resources sector, Eike Batista's EBX holding also invests in other industries such as real estate (REX), entertainment (IMX) technology (SIX) and catering (NRX). In Rio, EBX supports sports, entertainment, dining, health, and beauty initiatives. Since the beginning of 2000, Batista has focused its efforts primarily on the area of ​​natural resources, energy and infrastructure.

literature

Web links

Commons : Eike Batista  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eike Batista's profile Forbes, 2011
  2. ↑ Eike Batista Forbes.com. Retrieved October 11, 2013
  3. ↑ Rogers, Simon. (March 11, 2010) Forbes rich list: ten years of top tens: as a spreadsheet | News | guardian.co.uk . Guardian. Retrieved July 14, 2013
  4. ↑ Juan Pablo Spinetto, Cristiane Lucchesi & Alex Cuadros. (July 26, 2013) Brazil's Batista Loses Billionaire Status as Debts Mount Bloomberg. Retrieved August 8, 2013 "Batista had already amassed at least $ 2 billion in personal liabilities, meaning the 56-year-old entrepreneur now has a net worth of about $ 200 million, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index."
  5. ↑ Pan Kwan Yuk. (July 26, 2013) Eike Batista: sorry, you are no longer a billionaire Financial Times. Retrieved August 8, 2013
  6. ↑ Carl Moses: The deep case of an oil magnate , in: FAZ , December 13, 2014, p. 28
  7. ↑ a b Ex-billionaire Eike Batista has to go to jail. Spiegel Online, January 30, 2017, accessed on the same day
  8. ↑ Bretas condena Eike Batista a 30 anos de prisão por propina a Cabral , Jornal do Brasil, July 3, 2018
  9. ↑ Eliezer Batista's profile ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Forbes, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / people.forbes.com
  10. ↑ Eike Batista Enterpreuneur European CEO, 2008
  11. ^ Eike Fuhrken Batista ZDF Alemanha ZDF, 2010
  12. ↑ A brazilian magnate points to himself for inspiration NY Times, 2012
  13. ↑ http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2012/05/17/billionaire-batistas-playboy-son-to-stand-trial-for-manslaughter-in-brazil/
  14. ^ A b Thomas Fischermann: Bankruptcy in Brazil . Time online. November 16, 2013. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
  15. ↑ Alexander Busch: No longer a billionaire in record time . handelsblatt.com. November 1, 2013. Retrieved January 28, 2014.
  16. ↑ Latin America Moguls on Twitter ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Latin Business Chronicles, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.latinbusinesschronicle.com
  17. ↑ John Lyons and Luciana Magalhaes: Fallen Star: Eike Batista wants to get back to the top . www.wsj.de. September 16, 2013. Retrieved June 14, 2014.
  18. ↑ Luciana Magalhaes: Batista bankruptcy tears big gaps in Rio . WSJ.de. January 15, 2014. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
  19. ↑ Luciana Magalhaes: Investors drag Eike Batista to court after the crash . WSJ.de. January 22, 2014. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
  20. ↑ Eike Batista's creditors are suing Deutsche Bank
  21. ↑ Billionaire on the run. NZZ, January 30, 2017, accessed on the same day
  22. ↑ Reto Vasella: 33 billion loss: Batista's rise and fall in: trade newspaper of 9 August 2013. Retrieved on August 9, 2013. Also on welt.de published.
  23. ↑ Eike Batista - Brazil's richest man is building a super port | Made in Germany Deutsche Welle, 2011
  24. ↑ E.on pushes to Brazil Spiegel, 2012
  25. ↑ RCS - IMG - EBX Group & IMG Acquire Brasil1 for IMX JV ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Reuters, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.reuters.com
personal data
SURNAME Batista, Eike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Batista, Eike Fuhrken (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd November 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Governador Valadares , Minas Gerais , Brazil