For the second consecutive year, the Venezuelan businessman Juan Carlos Escotet is part of the Forbes list of the richest in the world, ranked number 903 on said list.

Escotet is known for being deeply linked to the Venezuelan banking sector, specifically for being the founder of the Banesco banking group, which has a presence in other countries such as the Dominican Republic, Panama, Colombia, Puerto Rico and the United States.

The Venezuelan, currently 62 years old and with extensive business experience, repeats on the Forbes list of the richest in the world with a fortune estimated at 3,500 million dollars. Escotet is president of ABANCA in Spain.

Among other Latinos included in this list are the Mexican telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim, in 13th place. Germán Larrea, also Mexican, occupies 45th place. For her part, Iris Fontbona, Chilean, is heiress to an empire of the group Andrónico Luksic, and appears in position 67.

Two Uruguayans also stand out on the list for the first time: Andrés Bzurovski and Sergio Fogel, co-founders of the firm dLocal. They join a half dozen Argentines and Chileans, as well as four Colombians and three Peruvians.

M. Pino

With information from Forbes, other international and national Venezuelan media

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Juan Carlos Escotet Alviárez, son of Juan Carlos Escotet, president of Banesco and Abanca, died on Saturday March 12 in Florida, United States, in a boating accident.

The young man, the youngest of the sons of the banker and María Isabel Alviárez, worked as director of Banesco USA, the US division of the bank, based in Miami. His other two brothers work at the firm.

As journalist Angela Oraá shared on her Instagram account, Escotet Jr was in a fishing championship in the Miami keys.

“The bride accidentally fell into the water due to a trip (…) Escotet jumped in to rescue his fiancé. While she managed to get out of the water without consequences, he did not suffer the same fate because of the propeller,” reported Oraá.

The journalist also indicated that the couple would marry in November.

Escotet Sr. is the founder of Banesco and president of Banesco Internacional, which has a presence in Venezuela, Spain, the United States, Panama, Puerto Rico, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Switzerland, Germany, Portugal, the United Kingdom and France. He is on Forbes’ 2021 Richest List.

He is also president of Abanca, a Spanish bank with a presence in 16 countries, and adviser to the International Visa Advisory Council for Latin America and the Caribbean.

 

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Source: doblellave.com

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