Vasile Frank Timis

In the face of tumbling commodity prices the operations of Vasile Frank Timis in Burkina Faso Côte d'Ivoire Liberia Senegal and Sierra Leone have sunk stopped producing or come under the increased scrutiny of regulators around the world...

Instead the asset was picked up by none other than Frank Timis himself with the help of a $20 mn...

The operations of entrepreneur Vasile Frank Timis in Senegal have come under scrutiny from the United States Department of Justice Africa Confidential has learned...

The US$400 million deal signed in October 2014 raised questions about Aliou Sall's role in Frank Timis's Senegalese oil business Petro-Tim Limited and whether or not he had a stake in Timis Corporation a privately-held British Virgin Islands-registered company...

Koroma is also believed to have stakes in African Minerals Limited whose majority ownership recently passed from Vasile Frank Timis to a Chinese conglomerate (AAC Vol 4 No 9 Not so fast Frank)...

Petro-Tim was formed by the international tycoon Frank Timis...

It noted the easy installation of companies such as African Petroleum then steered by controversial minerals magnate Frank Timis (AC Vol 53 No 5 Timis drills deep)...

Production is by two British companies London Mining and the much larger African Minerals Limited (AML) headed by Frank Timis...

During a previous tenure at the Mines Ministry Kanu signed off on controversial iron-ore deals with London Mining and Frank Timis’s African Minerals Limited...

Mining companies have invested much in the APC and Sierra Rutile Limited and Frank Timis and his African Minerals Ltd...

He was a senior mining industry official who helped to arrange the diamond and iron ore concessions for Frank Timis’s Sierra Leone Diamond Company now African Minerals Limited...

Frank Timis’s Tonkolili iron-ore project has problems running its trains on time – and even on the line Africa Confidential has learned...