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CIA veteran and Trump-linked lobbyists tried to sway US$5 billion corruption probes in Maputo and Luanda

Washington-based BGR Group hired ex-Paris CIA station chief to aid defendants in sovereign wealth fund and hidden loans scandals

More questions are being raised about the accountability of lobbying companies after it has emerged in filings lodged with the United States government that veteran CIA agent Dale Britt Bendler, convicted in April for mishandling classified material, was working clandestinely for Washington-based BGR Group to help the defendants in two of Africa’s biggest corruption scandals. BGR’s clients included business people implicated in the loss of over US$3 billion of public funds from Angola’s Sovereign Wealth Fund and conspiring with state officials to defraud Mozambique of over $2bn in the hidden loans scandal.

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