Gilbert Bigio

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Gilbert Bigio (10 June 1935 – 29 September 2026) was a Haitian businessman. He was the founder of GB Group and Haiti's first billionaire. Bigio was sanctioned by the Government of Canada for his involvement in arms trafficking and human rights violations in Haiti. He was also the de facto leader of Haiti's Jewish community and an honorary Israeli consul. Bigio's name appeared in the 2021 Pandora Papers leak of secret offshore company documents by the ICIJ. In an accounting document from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, Bigio was revealed as the buyer of Epstein's Mercedes Maybach at a price of $132,000. Other leaked documents showed Bigio moving wealth to Miami and Switzerland through offshore companies in different tax havens.

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