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Marc Rich
Marc Rich was a Belgian-American commodities trader, financier, and businessman. He founded the commodities company Glencore and was later indicted in the United States on federal charges of tax evasion, wire fraud, racketeering, and selling Iranian oil to Israel during the Iran hostage crisis. He fled to Switzerland at the time of the indictment and never returned to the United States.
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business · American commodities trader (1934–2013) · entrepreneur · financier · businessperson · art collector · also Marc Rich, Rich
Born 18 December 1934 · Died 26 June 2013 · Q706542
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2026· 2 entries
“Israeli officials of both major political parties and leaders of Jewish communities in America and Europe urged the pardon of Mr. Rich.”
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2017· 1 entry
The Paradise Papers, a set of confidential electronic documents relating to offshore investment, revealed that the Appleby law firm had worked for Rich and Glencore on major projects in the past, even after his indictmen
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2016· 1 entry
The FBI released documents related to the pardon, stating it was an FOIA release
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2013· 3 entries
Died 2013-06-26.
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With Xstrata (formerly Südelektra Holding AG) to become Glencore Xstrata, headquartered in Baar, Switzerland
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Rich died of a stroke on June 26, 2013, at a Lucerne hospital.
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2001· 2 entries
The Zug based Crown Resources AG, which is associated with Alfa Group, merged with the Zug-based Marc Rich & Co
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Career landmark: presidential pardon.
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1996· 2 entries
Reportedly never having been visited by her father while in treatment due to the likelihood of him being arrested if he had come to the United States
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Marc Rich and Denise divorced in 1996; she continued to use the name Denise Rich.
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1985· 1 entry
Rich helped with the compensation to the families of the Israeli victims of the Ras Burqa massacre in the Sinai
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1983· 2 entries
Rich and partner Pincus Green were indicted on 65 criminal counts, including income tax evasion, wire fraud, racketeering, and trading with Iran during the oil embargo (at a time when Iranian revolutionaries were still h
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Career landmark: indictment.
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1979· 1 entry
Rich used his special relationship with Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of the revolution, to buy oil from Iran despite the American embargo
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1974· 2 entries
As Marc Rich + Co AG, and also refers to the management buyout from Marc Rich in 1993
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And co-worker Pincus Green set up their own company in Switzerland, Marc Rich + Co
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1966· 1 entry
Rich married Denise Eisenberg, a songwriter and heir to a New England shoe manufacturing fortune
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1950· 1 entry
Where he started a company that imported Bengali jute to make burlap bags, and later started a business trading agricultural products and helped found the American Bolivian Bank (Banco Boliviano Americano S
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1941· 1 entry
His parents emigrated with their son to the United States to escape the Nazis
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1934· 1 entry
Born 1934-12-18.
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