Dan Gertler

Dan Gertler middleman in one of the world's biggest mining scandals laundered money and paid US$360 million in cash bribes to high-ranking politicians in Congo-Kinshasa according to court documents seen by Africa Confidential...

Dan Gertler's mining deals could cause losses to Kinshasa's treasury of at least US$3...

Dan Gertler who made his fortune as a go-between in many of Congo-Kinshasa's biggest mining deals has promised to allow Congolese to 'directly participate' in the country's mineral wealth for the first time...

In January it emerged that outgoing US President Donald Trump had secretly suspended sanctions against Israeli businessman Dan Gertler accused by the Treasury Department of grand corruption in Congo-Kinshasa...

Two auditors who fled Congo-Kinshasa in fear of their lives have leaked thousands of bank records showing how companies linked to Israeli business magnate Dan Gertler were able to bypass sanctions imposed on him by the United States in December 2017...

Worried Koko Lobanga wrote a letter to Afriland's Kinshasa management saying that 'irregularities have been detected on Mr Dan Gertler's accounts' and that 'these irregularities are capable of exposing the bank to risks of non-conformity on the national or international level'...

REVOLVING DOORS IN KINSHASA The documents collected by Navy Malela one of the in-house auditorsofficers at Afriland First Bank in Kinshasa show how a special intermediary account at the bank that was not tied to any individual – called the disposition à payer (DAP) account - allowed companies in Dan Gertler's network to convert many millions of US dollar banknotes into euros...

Dan Gertler said through his lawyers Carter-Ruck that neither he nor his wife 'recall any such deposit into Mrs Gertler's account'...

AFRILAND'S AXIS As well as the companies linked to Israeli magnate Dan Gertler Afriland had several other controversial clients...

Early last month a joint investigation by news media and NGOs claimed mining magnate Dan Gertler had set up a money-laundering ring which apparently allowed him to evade United States sanctions imposed over bribery in Congo-Kinshasa...

23 years of mining Congo for profit Dan Gertler has been the subject of growing controversy since he first arrived in Congo-Kinshasa in 1997 just after Laurent-Désiré Kabila's rebel forces ended the 32-year dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko (AC Vol 38 No 9 Business at war)...

Israeli mining tycoon Dan Gertler's latest plan to sidestep sanctions on his companies in Congo-Kinshasa will test the seriousness of Washington's efforts to crack down on corruption...

In December 2017 the US Treasury announced that the companies were enabling 'Dan Gertler to access the international financial system and profit from corruption and misconduct'...

Not for saleAdding to the pressure international and local civil society groups called 'Congo Is Not for Sale' demand that President Tshisekedi freeze the Congolese assets and businesses of the Israeli mining mogul Dan Gertler...

Core GertlerAt the heart of Glencore's problems in Congo-K is the fact that its assets were acquired with the assistance of the Israeli businessman Dan Gertler who was placed on a US sanctions list in December 2017...

An equally embarrassing hangover from the Kabila years is Dan Gertler the Israeli billionaire who partnered with Glencore and ERG in their Congolese mines...