Baruch Ivcher () is an

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i-born billionaire business tycoon who lives in

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. Ivcher was a majority shareholder of the Peruvian television station Frecuencia Latina. President

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ordered Ivcher stripped of his Peruvian citizenship when the station's investigative program ''Contrapunto'' exposed

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Early life

Ivcher was born in

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(now in

). After graduating from law school at the

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, he opened a law office in Hadera. In 1970, he moved to

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, Peru, where he opened a mattress factory, Productos Paraiso, now the largest bedding company in South America, worth well over $1 billion. Ivcher and his wife Nomi had 4 children.

Media ownership

Ivcher acquired

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in keeping with a law in force at the time according to which aliens were not permitted to own a radio or television channel in Peru. In 1996, Ivcher's television station, Canal 2 (now Frecuencia Latina) , began airing investigative reports accusing

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, head of Peru's national intelligence service, of links to death squads and drug traffickers. After attempts to bribe Ivcher and pay him $19 million to allow government monitoring of the program, Ivcher's citizenship was revoked and he was forced into exile. In July 1997, the case was submitted to the

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, which called on the Peruvian government to cease harassing Ivcher and violating his

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, reinstate him as president and director of Canal 2, and indemnify him for the false accusations against him.International Law In Brief: Nov. 1-5, 1999
In 2011, Ivcher sold Canal 2 (now Frecuencia Latina) for over $600 million.

References

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