Carlos Slim Helu Net Worth
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Carlos Slim Helu, born on January 28, 1940 in Mexico City, is a Mexican businessman. He was ranked as the richest person in the world with a fortune of 74.0 billion dollars in the year 2011.
His father, Julian Slim Haddad (Yusef Salim Haddad was born) was a Christian Maronite from Jezzine in Lebanon. Slim’s mother, Linda Helu was a Christian Lebanese too.
Slim built his fortune through investments in the telecommunications industry. He runs Latin America’s largest mobile operator (América Movil) With over 130 million users 2007 which in turn owns Mexico’s largest mobile operator (Telcel) and the largest company for ground telephony (Telmex). He is also the owner of various retail chains, banks, cigarette companies (Cigatam) and a restaurant chain (Sanborns) which is widespread throughout Mexico.
The privatization of Telmex which is the basis for Carlos Slim large fortune was carried out by so-called ‘public’ auction in December 1990 after the decree of Mexico’s then president Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Slim in consortium with other France Telecom won the auction even though there were several higher offers from foreign investors.
Carlos Slim Helu Net worth listed above is only an estimate based on our current research, it is possible that Carlos Slim Helus net worth has changed since the net worth estimate date listed above.
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