Years of reporting by United Nations Expert Panels and journalists in Kinshasa have uncovered the clandestine networks in the country's industrial copper and cobalt mining sector with companies including Glencore and Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) – now Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) – shown to have secured their local assets through business relationships with the Israeli billionaire businessman Dan Gertler (AC Vol 59 No 5 Kabila's survival strategy & Vol 59 No 17 Kabila's two-front offensive)...
Vol 59 No 17 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Officials in Kinshasa are examining Katumbi's connections to Zambian-Senegalese businessman Abdoulaye Ndiaye a prominent figure in Zambia's gem-mining sector who is a joint venture partner of Israeli-Russian oligarch Lev Leviev a bitter business rival of Kabila's best billionaire friend the controversial Israeli mining magnate Dan Gertler...
Vol 59 No 12 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Glencore also faces a tricky tango with former partner Dan Gertler who is suing the company for billions of dollars relating to unpaid royalties from KCC and the Mutanda mine...
Vol 59 No 5 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The Ugandan President is also keeping tabs on what the Congolese will do next with oil concessions in the Lake Albert area controlled by the Israeli businessman and key Kabila ally Dan Gertler who was sanctioned in December by the US Treasury Department (AC Vol 59 No 1 The electoral mirage & Vol 59 No 4 Kabila squeezes the miners)...
Vol 59 No 4 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
In fact Glencore and Randgold have been active partners of Kabila's key business ally Dan Gertler over the past decade...
Och-Ziff's joint venture created in 2008 which invested in Israeli mining magnate Dan Gertler's operations in Congo-Kinshasa could also come under the magnifying glass...
Vol 59 No 1 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The Americans raised the stakes on 21 December when President Donald Trump sanctioned Dan Gertler an Israeli billionaire who is friends with Kabila and has acted as a gatekeeper for major deals in mining and oil (AC Vol 58 No 5 An awkward tango for Gertler and Glencore)...
FTI also worked with Dan Gertler similarly exposed to charges over mining deals linked to his close friend Congo-Kinshasa President Joseph Kabila (AC Vol 58 No 5 An awkward tango for Gertler and Glencore)...
Vol 58 No 5 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler and South African commodity trader Ivan Glasenberg who have done far better than their corporate rivals out of Joseph Kabila's reign in Congo-Kinshasa are rethinking their strategy...
In the same year he had brought to public attention questions about the forcible acquisition of a Congolese mine belonging to Canada's First Quantum minerals and its onward sale for an extremely low price to Israeli mining billionaire Dan Gertler (AC Vol 53 No 2 No confidence vote from companies)...