Vasile Frank Timis

Australian-Romanian businessman Frank Timis a veteran of stock exchange fraud and corruption scandals is charging into agriculture snapping up vast landholdings in Senegal and on the desert's edge in Niger where he says he is planning a reforestation and carbon credits scheme (AC Vol 60 No 12 An oily threat to Sall)...

In December 2020 a judge quashed a judicial case brought against him for alleged corruption related to the award of oil and gas rights to controversial businessman Vasile Frank Timis...

Legal challengeThe main iron ore miners companies which took on the assets after litigation with their former owner Vasile Frank Timis are fighting the cancellation of their licences...

Timis seeks comeback SL Mining's dispute with the Sierra Leone government appears to have been seized on by London-based mining entrepreneur Vasile Frank Timis as an opportunity to re-enter the country's contentious natural resource arena...

Ever since BBC television's Panorama current affairs programme revealed apparent evidence that controversial British-based Australian/Romanian businessman Vasile Frank Timis made massive payments to President Macky Sall's brother Aliou Sall the political scene in Senegal has been in turmoil...

The deal put BP into business with the controversial mining and oil entrepreneur Frank Timis whose privately owned company Timis Corporation held a 30% stake in the blocks...

The commissions are still in the grand scheme of things focused on the margins; they have not yet drawn close enough to the more notorious scandals including the sale of Sierra Rutile and dozens of other valuable state assets the fortune allegedly accumulated by President Koroma and Vasile Frank Timis's dealings with the APC government some of which were detailed in President Bio's Transition Report of last year (AC Vol 57 No 24 Timis's seam of woe and Vol 59 No 13 Koroma accused of grand corruption)...

This was previously held by African Petroleum long associated with the United Kingdom-based Vasile Frank Timis...

Bolloré's expanding West African empire has mirrored that of Vasile 'Frank' Timis the notorious self-styled 'emperor' of West African resources...

The foundations of Vasile 'Frank' Timis's West African resources empire have been shaken further after Burkina Faso announced plans to strip his company of its licence to exploit one of the country's richest mineral deposits – the Tambao manganese mine...

African Petroleum the Norwegian-listed oil company founded by controversial resources magnate Vasile 'Frank' Timis has lodged three separate court cases against the Gambian government after it cancelled licences to drill the A1 and A4 gas fields citing a failure on African Petroleum's part to meet exploration commitments (AC Vol 58 No 16 No licence to drill)...