Billionaire founder of the Corona beer brewery makes EVERYONE in the Spanish village a MILLIONAIRE

Eighty residents of the sleepy Spanish village of Cerezales del Condado in northern Spain have just become millionaires. 


The hamlet was the birthplace of Antonino Fernandez (pictured with people of the village, centre), who became fabulously wealthy in Mexico from sales of Corona beer. He died in August this year, aged 99, and was by then a billionaire. Under his eccentric will, £169m was left to the residents of Cerezales (bottom right), the village in Leon province where he was born and raised, with each villager inheriting roughly £2m. Mr Fernández (left) emigrated to Mexico in 1949, when he was 32, and went on to become the CEO of Grupo Modelo, the brewery company who make Corona beer. After the Spanish Civil War he moved to the town of Leon in Northern Spain, where he married his wife Cinia González Díez (top right).