Marc Comina a spokesman for Steinmetz said he was confident that the federal court would be 'independent from the camaraderie' of Geneva courts and campaigns there funded by philanthropist George Soros...

A representative for George Soros dismissed Steinmetz's comments as 'ridiculous' reported the London-based Financial Times...

Steinmetz reacted to his prison sentence at an unprecedented international bribery trial with typical defiance blaming the billionaire philanthropist George Soros for persecuting him while claiming he will appeal 'all the way to God if necessary' to reverse the verdict...

While several of the disguised transactions were intended for bribes say the prosecutors one payment may have had another purpose: to hire a cyber security company to investigate the philanthropist George Soros (See Box The money-laundering allegations against Steinmetz for details of the alleged sham transactions )...

5m purely on Steinmetz's behalf and made the transfers solely on his instructions—to pay out bribe money and for other reasons including to pay a cyber security company to in Kerzner's words 'carry out investigations into George Soros'...

'During our confrontation at the police in Israel Beny told the inspectors that it was possible that he asked me to pay [an executive at the company] to do investigations into George Soros and that he didn't want to pass it by his board'...

Immediately an online onslaught of tweets and derogatory videos accused the report's authors of forgery blackmail being a criminal enterprise and damaging the Congolese economy in order to profit the billionaire philanthropist George Soros...

This narrative also covers foreign funders of local non-governmental organisations which criticise the government including billionaire philanthropists George Soros and Bill Gates...

If he is not intending to seek a third term then it can still suit his purposes to keep his political enemies guessing even if it does tarnish his democratic credentials and would upset his supporters in the West such as the billionaire philanthropist George Soros...

There is also some puzzlement about why negotiations between Ghana and a company owned by Hungarian financier-philanthropist George Soros and former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to supply the turbines at a much cheaper price were suddenly abandoned in favour of the Ameri deal...

At his 15 December inauguration attended by 13 African heads of state there was no sign of the United States' billionaire philanthropist George Soros whose pro-accountability organisations helped him in his first term nor the British former Prime Minister Tony Blair nor even of his friend and fellow veteran of the Paris events of May 1968 the French politician Bernard Kouchner (AC Vol 52 No 8 George Soros offers some tips)...

He is well known for his aggressive expansion which saw him fervently courting George Soros and winning the financier's backing in 2007...