Lansana Conté

Condé appointed Ibrahima Kassory Fofana a former aide to the late President Lansana Conté as his campaign director...

Cilins had urged Mamadie Conté née Touré the late President Lansana Conté's fourth wife to destroy documents that appeared to connect BSGR to bribes to Conté...

He started bribing Guinean officials but 'soon learned' that only the late President Lansana Conté could make the necessary decisions...

On 9 April the government published transcripts of telephone conversations between Mamadie Conté ex-wife of the late President Lansana Conté and Frédéric Cilins a lobbyist for BSGR...

The licences for Blocks 1 and 2 now in dispute were stripped from Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto and transferred to BSGR shortly before the death of Guinea's military leader President Lansana Conté in December 2008...

President Alpha Condé's 21 January reshuffle removed politicians left over from the days of General Lansana Conté although Naby Youssouf Kiridi Bangoura remains Presidency Secretary General...

One of those thought lucky to have been elected is Ibrahima Kassory Fofana a Finance Minister under the late President Lansana Conté whom local media have linked to the controversial transfer of the iron-ore concession to BSGR...

Guinean officials are investigating how BSGR secured its stake in Simandou under the late President General Lansana Conté and have arrested some of the company's staff in Conakry...

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Cilins in April after Mamadie Conté née Touré the fourth and last wife of Lansana Conté secretly recorded her conversations with him in her role as a 'cooperating witness' for the US government (AC Vol 54 No 9 The fight for Mount Simandou)...

New video The witness the US prosecutors say was Mamadie Conté née Touré the fourth wife of the late President Lansana Conté...

Meanwhile Conakry accuses Steinmetz of bribing the government of the late Lansana Conté to obtain the rights to half of the giant Simandou iron-ore mine which used to belong to Rio Tinto...