amaBhungane | SA doctors stall Glencore's mega-settlement over DRC 'bribe' by Gertler associate | Business

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In 2010 a powerful fixer in the Democratic Republic of Congo allegedly organised a $500 000 bribe for a local judge to make a $16 million lawsuit against Glencore subsidiary Katanga Copper Company go away. | amaBhungane

Two South African doctors are fighting to piggyback on the commodity trading behemoth’s $1.1 billion corruption settlement with American authorities.

Other filings suggest that"DRC Partner" matches the description of Dan Gertler and"DRC Agent" matches the description of Pieter Deboutte, the long-serving head of Gertler’s operations in Congo. The move effectively locked them out of trades involving any US dollar accounts and US individuals and companies were also prohibited from doing business with them.

Now two South African doctors who have put up evidence in the US courts alleging they got caught in the Glencore-Gertler mangle want Glencore to pay.The 2010 DRC court case which Glencore’s fixer allegedly got quashed had been brought by a company called Crusader Health, owned by South Africa doctor-couple Ian and Laurethé Hagen.

The Hagens’ contract pre-dated Glencore and Gertler taking control of the mines in question while Hattingh had already set up a hospital for Glencore at another mine. The agent emailed a Glencore executive on 3 November 2010 saying that he had talked to an unnamed"DRC official" and that he and this official would be meeting the judge in the Crusader matter to iron things out.

 

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