Eike Batista, the Brazilian tycoon who at one time was the world’s eighth-richest person before losing his fortune and serving time in jail, says he’s raised $500 million for a new venture to ...

Batista introduced them to Jewish dealers from Portugal and Antwerp and collected commissions on each sale. Source: Robert the matador joins Eike the bull, Australian Financial Review, October 30 ...

Some of the most notorious business disasters were caused by a single individual's reckless decisions. From corporate fraud ...

“Watch, I’ll be the world’s richest” were the famous last words of Eike Batista. Two years later, his business ventures have taken a devastating turn for the worse The man who had it all: Billionaire ...

Batista introduced them to Jewish dealers from Portugal and Antwerp and collected commissions on each sale. Source: Robert the matador joins Eike the bull, Australian Financial Review, October 30 ...

Eike Batista, formerly Brazil’s richest man, was sentenced to an additional eight years and seven months of prison time this week for insider trading. Batista, 62, had already been convicted for ...

Flamboyant Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista made his first million from gold trading before he was 24 years old. And from there it was a life worthy of the silver screen - he married a Playboy ...