Dan Gertler
Israeli billionaire businessman
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| September 2024 | The Tel Aviv District Court recommended dismissing Gertler's lawsuit against Haaretz, citing the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, and the parties agreed to drop the case. |
| 2022 | Dan Gertler signed an agreement with the Congolese government led by President Félix Tshisekedi, transferring all mining and oil licenses held by Ventora Group. |
| 2022 | Gertler divests or loses his mining and oil interests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), marking the end of a significant business period. |
| February 2022 | The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced plans to sign an agreement with Fleurette Group to transfer assets worth two billion dollars, including cash, cobalt mines, and oil wells. |
| March 8 2021 | The Biden administration ended the temporary sanctions reprieve granted to Gertler. |
| January 25 2021 | In the final days of the Trump Administration, the US Treasury Department issued a license temporarily lifting sanctions on Gertler, allowing him to use American dollars for various activities for a year, following lobbying by Alan Dershowitz. |
| 2020 | Gertler filed a lawsuit for 9 million shekels against Haaretz newspaper and two journalists over an investigative report about fund transfers from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Israel. |
| November 28 2019 | The Economist reported on Trump's sanctions against Gertler, which were seen as potentially influential in Joseph Kabila's decision to step down in the December 2018 elections. |
| December 2018 | The sanctions potentially influenced President Joseph Kabila's decision to step down during the general election. |
| February 2018 | The US Department of Treasury named Dan Gertler on the OFAC financial sanctions list under the Magnitsky Act, blocking his US-based assets and preventing firms from doing business with him in dollars due to alleged corrupt mining and oil deals in the Democratic Republic of Congo. |
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