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Risky Business

Meet some of the IFC’s most controversial beneficiaries.
From left: Robert Kuok, H.L. Hunt

MIGUEL FACUSSÉ BARJUM

Corporación Dinant

IFC investment: $30 million

The late Honduran oligarch, who died in June, founded a manufacturing giant that owns 20,000 acres of palm plantations in Honduras’ Bajo Aguán. Described by the Los Angeles Times as “colorful” and “often ruthless,” Facussé presided over a company that has been dogged by allegations of using a private security force to forcibly evict families

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