Antonino Fernández, who died aged 98 in August 2016, left £169m in
his will to the 80 residents of his birthplace – the small village of
Cerezales del Condado in north west Spain. He left £2m in his will to
each resident and basically made them millionaires overnight.
Fernández born into a family made up of
13 children, emigrated to Mexico in 1949, when he was 32. He went on to
become the CEO of Grupo Modelo, the brewery company who make Corona beer
– a bottled beer in the United States, with annual sales of $693million
(£556million).
Fernández was a well-known
philanthropist who never forgot his motherland and was honoured by the
former King of Spain, Juan Carlos, for his charitable deeds, including
his work with disabled young people.
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