The “Blood Diamond” Magnate Who Is At The Center of Och-Ziff’s Bribery Scandal In Africa
The United States’ first foreign-bribery case against a hedge fund is full of dramatic detail.
The United States’ first foreign-bribery case against a hedge fund is full of dramatic detail.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) holds the paradoxical status of possessing a rich mineral wealth at the same time as being one of the world’s least developed countries.
Glencore PLC is under investigation by Canadian regulators looking into more than $100 million in payments a subsidiary made to a company owned by an Israeli businessman who has been accused of bribing Democratic Republic of the Congo officials, said people familiar with the investigation.
The huge story about bribery by a New York hedge fund in Africa should have been on the front page, but the New York Times buried it in the financial section.
Geneva – Mining giant Glencore said Monday it had struck a deal worth nearly $1 billion to purchase shares of two mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo from a controversial Israeli magnate.
“Nothing happens in Congo without Dan Gertler and Gertler can do nothing without playing the Israeli card,” said an advisor to an international mining conglomerate.
The U.K. Serious Fraud Office is investigating Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler and four former Eurasian Natural Resources Corp. executives as part of its three-year probe into the Kazakh company’s acquisition of copper and cobalt mining projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo.