The heritage of the Dominican president Louis Abinader exceeds US$76 million dollars, which makes him the richest president in Latin America, according to Bloomberg Online magazine.
The president’s fortune includes mansions valued at more than a million dollars in investments in the British Virgin Islands
According to the report, carried out by the journalist Dolfi Gómez, when Abinader took office in 2020, he had assets amounting to US$76,156,866 (at the daily rate).
Followed by the Dominican president, in second place is the president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, who has total assets of US$39,702,106 (until May 2021).
Bloomberg also presented the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, in third place, with total assets of US$2,548,967 (as of July 2019).
Meanwhile, Mario Abdo Benítez, president of Paraguay, is in fourth place with total assets of US$953,973 (until 2016) and in fifth place is the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, with total assets of US$446,152 (until August 2018). ).
Meanwhile, the president of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, is in sixth place with total assets of US$385,990 (until May 2020) and the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, is in seventh place with total assets of US$358,916 (until 2019).
In the same order, they are followed by: Colombian Iván Duque, with US$358,113 (until 2020), Daniel Ortega, for Nicaragua, with total assets: US$217,844 (until 2006), Mexican Andrés López Obrador, with US$80,626 ( until 2021), the Argentine president Alberto Fernández, with US$46,190 (until September 2021) and Gabriel Boric, president of Chile, with US$36,956 (until April 2022).
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Bloomberg explained that the registry of assets is based on what was declared before the authorities of their respective countries by the leaders of the region, with the exception of Panama, Venezuela, Honduras, Costa Rica and Guatemala, where said president “due to internal policies of their country or their own decisions simply do not have the information of their assets public”.
Abinader’s estate
According to the information, Abinader owns assets amounting to 4 thousand 177 million with 25 thousand 211 pesos.
In housing, the president declared that he had an apartment valued at RD$35.4 million; a house for US$1,339,410.00 and another apartment for RD$600,000.00.
The sum of RD$12 million 692 thousand 647 is what it has in vehicles detailed as follows: a Chevrolet van for RD$1 million 167 thousand 224; a Chevrolet Tahoe SUV for RD$1,589,638 million; two Ford Escape, whose amount is RD$1 million 618 thousand each and the Tesla car for US$117,128.32.
In household effects, he declared that he has RD$40 million 950 thousand. In household appliances there is RD$14 million 625 thousand; RD$2,925,000 in audiovisual equipment and devices and RD$23,400,000 in home furniture.
Meanwhile, in watches and jewelry it has, according to the document, RD$31 million 5 thousand and in works of art, such as sculptures and paintings, the amount is RD$15 million 210 thousand.
In inheritance assets and donations, the Dominican head of government said he had RD$396 million 352 thousand 531 from his father José Rafael Abinader Wasaf, now deceased.
