Carlos Slim: who is the Mexican billionaire who has invested £400m in BT?
by Rob Davies from World news | The Guardian on (#6NGEM)
The 84-year-old telecoms tycoon has been described as the Latin American prototype of a Russian oligarch
Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire who this week paid 400m for a 3% stake in BT, has traversed some of life's highest peaks and lowest ebbs.
He claims that in 1997, aged 57, he was briefly declared dead after suffering a massive haemorrhage on the operating table at the Texas Heart Institute during surgery to replace a faulty heart valve.
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