Joesley Batista

Quick Facts

Full Name	Joesley Batista
Occupation	Businessperson
Date Of Birth	Dec 8, 1972(1972-12-08)
Age	52
Country	Argentina
Birth City	Formosa
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Joesley Batista Biography

Joesley Batista is one of the most popular and richest Businessperson who was born on December 8, 1972 in Formosa, Argentina. Joesley Batista (born 8 December 1972) is a Brazilian businessman who is also known in the form of Jose Batista Sobrinho. He is the one responsible for the international expansion and expansion procedure for JBS S.A., the largest meat-packing business worldwide, and one of the largest Agribusiness firms in Brazil as well as J&F Investimentos which he shares with his wife Flora and their five children. He was named in 2016 as one of the top 70 billionaires from Brazil in Forbes magazine.

Batista and JBS have reportedly received funding from the BNDES due to this bribe worth 10 billion dollars at interest rates below market rates. In exchange for his assistance in to record the music and the PF made Batista as well as his brother and the other executives of JBS S.A. free, and a penalty in the amount of R$225 million. Batista later decided to move into the US. The deal reached through the Batista brothers is only applicable to their physical individuals. It is believed that the Brazilian authorities are still in negotiations with the amount of penalty that will be administered towards J&F which is the company that holds J&F which is superior to JBS S.A.. In the past, negotiations suggested an amount of fine could reach R$11 billion was in the works, a figure that was denied by Batista. On May 22, CVM was requesting $3.4 billion from JBS as part of a promise of concession to leniency, as reported by the media. In May of 2017, JBS retained law firm Baker McKenzie to negotiate possible criminal charges with the United States Department of Justice under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Batista and his company are involved and pled guilty in several allegations of bribery. From September 2017 to October 2018, the Brazilian court kept Batista on remand for illegal profit on the financial market.

On 9 March 2018, Mr. Batista was released from the Federal Police’s jail in Sao Paulo, but he is not allowed to leave the country and his passport is retained by the Federal Police.

On September 10, 2017, the man was detained for a short time by the PF upon the request from the Attorney General Rodrigo Janot. The request was approved as a matter of course by Federal Supreme Court Justice Edson Fachin.

Joesley Batista Net Worth

Joesley Batista is one of the richest Businessperson from Argentina. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joesley Batista 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In July of this year, Batista was included as suspects in the probe that comprised Operation Car Wash. In July 2016, the Brazilian Federal Police (in Portuguese the word Policia Federal is PF) arrested him on charges of allegations of bribes paid through his business, JBS S.A., to the former president of the Brazilian Parlament Eduardo Cunha. The bribes were offered in exchange to obtain funds of the Fundo de Investimento do Fundo de Garantia do Tempo de Servico [pt[pt] (FI-FGTS).

On the 13th of September, 2017, he was granted remand in the Criminal Federal Court 6th of Sao Paolo through the use of insider knowledge to make money in the market for financial instruments between April and May 17 2017 – the date of disclosure of information regarding the collaboration agreement by J&F Executives and Attorney General’s Office.

On 17 May 2017, the newspaper O Globo published news that Batista provided recordings made on 7 March 2017 of a dialogue between him and the Brazilian president Michel Temer, where Batista represents that he was paying for the silence of Eduardo Cunha, who is currently in jail, and former target in the investigation. The news resulted in some protests and calls for Temer’s resignation, with the Brazilian stock market also facing a drop. On 19 May 2017, JBS admitted to paying bribes to the three Brazilian presidents Michel Temer, Dilma Rousseff and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, spanning the previous 14 years. All three presidents denied accepting bribes. However, an audio recording appears to catching Temer green-lighting the Batistas to pay a monthly allowance to former House Speaker Eduardo Cunha in exchange for his silence. JBS told prosecutors they had paid a total of $123 million in bribes to Brazilian politicians in recent years. Batista was also rumoured to have recorded senator and former presidential candidate Aécio Neves of PSDB, one of the biggest political parties at the time, requesting two million reais in bribes. The PF filmed the payment passing to the senator’s cousin. The money was then tracked to the bank account of a company belonging to Zeze Perrella, a PSDB senator from Minas Gerais. The former head of the Securities Commission (CVM) referred to testimony that asserted JBS had bribed 1,829 politicians. Temer alleged that JBS doctored the recording of him talking to Batista about trading shares, and accused the Batista of insider trading. JBS denied illegal trades.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Joesley Batista Dating?

According to our records, Joesley Batista married to Ticiana Villas Boas. As of December 1, 2023, Joesley Batista’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Joesley Ranked on the list of most popular Businessperson. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Argentina. Joesley Batista celebrates birthday on December 8 of every year.

Top Facts about Joesley Batista

1. Joesley Batista is a Brazilian businessman and billionaire.
2. He co-founded JBS, the world’s largest meat processing company.
3. In 2017, he admitted to bribing over 1,800 politicians in Brazil.
4. His testimony led to the impeachment of former President Michel Temer.
5. Batista was arrested twice for insider trading and obstruction of justice.
6. He agreed to pay $3 billion in fines as part of a plea deal.
7. Forbes estimated his net worth at $1.3 billion in 2020.
8. Batista has faced criticism for environmental violations by JBS.
9. He owns several luxury properties around the world, including a New York City penthouse.
10. Batista is married with three children and lives primarily in São Paulo, Brazil.

How much is the owner of JBS worth?

Wesley Batista, an executive at the world’s largest meatpacker JBS, listens to his lawyer Ticiano Figueiredo, during his testimony at the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry of the Federal Senate, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017.

Who is the Batista family?

Wesley Batista is one of two billionaire brothers who control publicly traded JBS S.A., one of the world’s largest meat processing companies. Their father, Jose Batista Sobrinho, founded a small butcher shop in central Brazil in 1953. It grew by acquiring slaughterhouses in the region.

Is JBS owned by Brazil?

TypeSociedade Anônima
Industry| Food processing
Founded| 1953
Founder| José Batista Sobrinho
Headquarters| São Paulo , Brazil

Who owns Tyson Foods China?

100%owned by Lakeside Farm Industries, Ltd.

What is the biggest meat company in the world?

JBS. JBS, based in Brazil, is the world’s largest meat-processing company. In the third quarter of 2021, the company reported revenue of $17.7 billion, a year-over-year increase of 32%.