Carlos Hank Rhon

Carlos Hank Rhon (born 1947) is a Mexican billionaire. He made his fortune from selling his financial firm Grupo Financiero Interacciones to Banorte. He also owns the diversified Grupo Hermes.

In 2022, Forbes ranked him the #661 fortune worldwide with a net worth of $4.4 billion.

Biography Carlos Hank Rhon is the son of politician and businessman Carlos Hank González.

Hank Rhon was a power broker, along with his father, for Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Starting in 1991, Hank Rhon bought shares in Laredo National Bank, allegedly buying additional shares using his associates' names in violation of Bank Holding Company Act requirements. Reuters reported in 1996 that an account at Laredo National Bank, owned by Hank Rhon, was being investigated by Mexican and U.S. officials for drug money laundering. U.S. federal law enforcement investigated Hank Rhon, as well as his father and his brother Jorge Hank Rhon, from December 1997 to early 1999. In June 1999, a report called the White Tiger Report (named after a white Siberian tiger Jorge attempted to smuggle across the Mexican-U.S. border After lobbying by the family, then-Attorney General Janet Reno wrote a letter saying the report was neither released nor vetted properly.

In December 1998, the Federal Reserve Board started an enforcement action to divest Carlos Hank Rhon from his 71% ownership of Laredo National Bank, accusing him of lying about his ownership

The Panama Papers show that on September 20, 2013, Trevor Pinchemain contacted Mossack Fonseca on behalf of Hank Rhon with the intent to buy an offshore firm with $10.7 million. Mossack Fonseca declined 4 days later citing negative information about Hank Rhon and his family.

In 2015, his name appeared in the Swiss Leaks investigation.