Moises Gertner

Business career Through their company, Fordgate, Gertner and his brother Mendi had a European property portfolio once valued at over 2.5 billion Euros. Their properties included Canon Bridge House the previous headquarters of Lazard Bank in the City of London Corporation as well as the Southside Wandsworth shopping center. They were also significant shareholders of Nikanor, a copper miner that floated on AIM in 2006 and was eventually taken over by global commodities group Glencore.

The brothers were introduced to Kaupthing Bank through Robert Tchenguiz, and they consequently acquired a 2.5% stake in Kaupthing, purchased with a loan from the same bank. After the collapse, the Gertners' deal was scrutinized by the UK Serious Fraud Office, in connection to Tchenguiz. as well as several Jewish charities and individual investors. The small settlement prompting the Charity Commission to open an investigation to determine if more regulatory action was needed.

In 2019, Gertner was forced to declare bankruptcy by the High Court of England and Wales. By this time, his debts had reached almost 800 million GBP, and the court refused to back the settlement plan Gertner had proposed. It was discovered that Gertner and Kaupthing had created a side deal to the settlement plan which the court said constituted as a "breach of good faith." As a result, and at the request of his largest creditors, Gertner had to declare bankruptcy.

In 2020, after years of legal wrangling, CFL Finance Ltd was defeated when its debt was established as unenforceable and CFL was ordered to pay Moises Gertner legal costs, which it was unable to pay and went into insolvent liquidation.

Personal life For several years, the Gertner brothers have been in several long running legal disputes with billionaires Dan Gertler, Robert Tchenguiz, and Beny Steimetz as well as Kaupthing Bank in Iceland.