Alberto Cortina
Madrid, Spain
Doctor of Jurisprudence, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Spain
investments, Self Made
$1,500,000,000
1511
#1511 Billionaires 2019
Cousins Alberto Cortina and Alberto Alcocer married sisters Alicia and Esther Koplowitz, heiresses to one of the largest construction firms in Spain.The cousins, dubbed Los Albertos, ran their wives' Construcciones y Contratas firm from the early 1970s until 1989, when both marriages fell apart.Alcocer and Cortina then moved into banking, running Banco Zaragozano. They sold their combined 40% stake to Barclays in 2004.Each of the cousins owns stakes in Grupo Empresarial ENCE, the largest eucalyptus pulp producer in Europe.
Cortina owns several ranches in Toledo, Spain, along with houses in Mallorca and Madrid.The Panama Papers revealed that Cortina and his cousin Alcocer had offshore accounts in the Central American tax haven country.
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