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Banker Francois Polge de Combret targeted by legal action in Paris over Simandou mine

French investment banker Francois Polge de Combret, who was economic adviser to President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and is a personal [...]

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Alan Davies
Alpha Conde
Beny Steinmetz
Beny Steinmetz Group Resources
Collectif contre l'impunite en Guinee
Francois Polge de Combret
GKA & associes
Ibrahima Sory Makanera
Ivan Terel
Lansana Conte
Moussa Dadis Camara
Patrick Klugman
Rio Tinto
Valery Giscard d'Estaing

Guinea
Simandou: Rio Tinto riposts to Beny Steinmetz's attack on the Polge de Combret affair

Rio Tinto, which is in dispute with Beny Steinmetz over the loss of its mining rights on blocks 1 and 2 on the Simandou iron ore project, has been stung by an attempt by the Israeli businessman to bring up another affair involving alleged bribery on its part for mining rights on blocks 3 and 4 at Simandou.

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France, Gabon
Financial prosecutor's office takes up Santullo case

Gabon recently opened up a new front in Paris in its legal dispute with Sericom, founded by the late Guido Santullo. An investigation.

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France, Guinea
Sarkozy the peacemaker between Conde and Diallo

In Conakry, Nicolas Sarkozy was key to engineering the political side of the deal between the Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz and the Guinean president. Here's how he did it.

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Guinea
Alan Davies, Rio Tinto's fallen star, fights for his reputation

In mid-September, Alan Davies, former head of energy and minerals at Rio Tinto, published a motion demanding the dismissal of [...]

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Africa
Alan Davies moving on after Rio Tinto

The target of an international financial investigation into the conditions in which the Simandou iron blocks were awarded in Guinea [...]

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Spotlight | Guinea
Chinalco could become owner of Beny Steinmetz’s former blocks on Simandou

While police investigators and courts in far-flung countries continue to examine how Beny Steinmetz Group Resources (BSGR) headed by Franco-Israeli tycoon Beny Steinmetz ended up by owning blocks 1 and 2 of Simandou iron ore project in Guinea the situation [.

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Guinea
Steinmetz turns the tables on Rio Tinto in bribery cases

Accused before several courts and arbitration panels of paying off associates of former Guinean president Lansana Conte to win blocks [...]

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Guinea
Francois Polge de Combret trips up Rio Tinto

Francois Polge de Combret, a consultant who picked up a $10.5 million fee in Guinea, has cost Alan Davies, chief [...]

Free access Mining 22.11.2016

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BSGR draws firms into new Simandou case

Mining magnate Beny Steinmtz has fired off a fresh salvo against Rio Tinto by targeting the private investigation firms that worked for it.

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Ibrahima Sory Makanera
Ivan Terel
Lansana Conte
Moussa Dadis Camara
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Financial prosecutor's office takes up Santullo case

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Steinmetz turns the tables on Rio Tinto in bribery cases

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Guinea Simandou: Rio Tinto riposts to Beny Steinmetz's attack on the Polge de Combret affair

France, Gabon Financial prosecutor's office takes up Santullo case

France, Guinea Sarkozy the peacemaker between Conde and Diallo

Guinea Alan Davies, Rio Tinto's fallen star, fights for his reputation

Africa Alan Davies moving on after Rio Tinto

Spotlight | Guinea Chinalco could become owner of Beny Steinmetz’s former blocks on Simandou

Guinea Steinmetz turns the tables on Rio Tinto in bribery cases

Guinea Francois Polge de Combret trips up Rio Tinto

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Libya
From Tripoli to Benghazi, Turkish trader BGN's oil odyssey

Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Guinea
Banker Francois Polge de Combret targeted by legal action in Paris over Simandou mine

Guinea
Simandou: Rio Tinto riposts to Beny Steinmetz's attack on the Polge de Combret affair

France, Gabon
Financial prosecutor's office takes up Santullo case

France, Guinea
Sarkozy the peacemaker between Conde and Diallo

Guinea
Alan Davies, Rio Tinto's fallen star, fights for his reputation

Africa
Alan Davies moving on after Rio Tinto

Spotlight | Guinea
Chinalco could become owner of Beny Steinmetz’s former blocks on Simandou

Guinea
Steinmetz turns the tables on Rio Tinto in bribery cases

Guinea
Francois Polge de Combret trips up Rio Tinto