Business Maverick: Canadian mining group Ivanhoe accused of ‘gaming’ DRC’s corrupt body politic — report

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Canadian mining group Ivanhoe has been accused of corruptly obtaining a prized Congolese copper asset by ‘gaming’ a state that has all the hallmarks of a mafia-run casino, according to a damning report published Thursday by The Sentry, an investigative ...

The report could spell big trouble for Ivanhoe and its US-born boss and founder Robert Friedland as investors increasingly want untainted returns from their capital while Ottawa takes a dim view of foreign corrupt practices, placing the company in the cross-hairs of the Canadian police.

The prize at stake here is Africa’s largest copper discovery to date, “a project poised to become the world’s third-largest copper producer by 2024 and the second-largest thereafter, with the highest grades of ore in the world.” The licences refer to an area covering covering roughly 2,400-square-kilometers that the company refers to as its “Western Foreland Exploration Project”. The area is adjacent to the company’s existingCopper has been rebranded as a “green metal” as it is seen as crucial to the global energy transition from fossil fuels. This means the sky is limit for future copper demand.

“Hidden camera videos published this September apparently show Vidiye Tshimanga, then a close advisor to DRC President Félix Tshisekedi, claiming to hold 20% of an unidentified Ivanhoe Mines subsidiary and telling unidentified people he believed to be prospective investors that they could pay him off using concealed business arrangements, including channelling payments to political parties by tendering contracts to well-connected service providers, all with the approval of the...

 

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