The government has just received $180m in damages from Glencore whose middleman Dan Gertler who is under United States Treasury sanctions has been accorded protection by the regime after agreeing to return some of the oil and mining assets that he acquired during the Kabila years...

While there was nothing about Glencore's most notorious scandal its multibillion-dollar dealings with Dan Gertler in Congo-Kinshasa the 'information' gave intriguing details about a bribe paid to a Congolese judge to rig a lawsuit brought by a medical services company...

These include a US$37 million cash withdrawal by associates of notorious fixer Dan Gertler for 'operating expenses' from the Kolwezi copper and cobalt project approved by ENRC's chairman and its Africa CEO (AC Vol 63 No 13 Gaps in Glencore's guilty plea)...

In Congo-K Glencore's new team continues to work with Israeli fixer Dan Gertler who is sanctioned by the US for grand corruption...

A tentative and yet-to-be published arrangement backed by President Tshisekedi would allow Dan Gertler an Israeli mining magnate to keep royalty rights valued at billions of dollars...

The comments were made in the wake of a memorandum of understanding signed between Gertler and Congo-K last month and which seems designed to resolve Gertler's troubles with the US while allowing the Congolese authorities to claw back tainted assets (AC Vol 63 No 5 President Tshisekedi cuts a deal with Dan Gertler)...

A multi-billion dollar corruption scandal over some of the world's most prized copper and cobalt mines is heading towards dénouement after Congolese authorities signed what they called 'a friendly agreement' with the man at the centre of it all: Israeli mining magnate Dan Gertler...

Tshisekedi already waging a cold war against Kabila and his business allies such as Israeli mining magnate Dan Gertler could use the consortium's extensive evidence to launch an investigation similar to South Africa's Zondo Commission which has spent three years hearing testimony on how members of the ruling African National Congress made corrupt deals with business people (AC Vol 62 No 10 Gertler's billions)...

Kabila's ally mining magnate Dan Gertler has held onto royalty rights to several of the country's richest copper and cobalt mines which are set to earn him at least $1...

It is under investigation in the US UK and Switzerland over alleged bribery in its mining operations there through its partner Dan Gertler (AC Vol 62 No 15 Court documents show Gertler at centre of $360m cash laundry)...

The most well-known of these middlemen is Dan Gertler the businessman who became former President Joseph Kabila's go-to man for oil and mining deals...