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Views: Visits 52 Swiss prosecutors allege that the Israeli billionaire and business associates bribed a wife of the former Guinean president to obtain lucrative mining rights. Lawyers, bankers and professional advisers in Europe and the United States enabled corruption in one of the world’s poorest countries, Swiss officials allege in a highly-anticipated criminal case that opens today. Prosecutors in Geneva allege that Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz forged documents and mastermi...

Views: Visits 20 Today, a historic trial is starting in Calvin’s city. Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz faces charges of “corruption of foreign public officials” and “document forgery” with two business partners. He is alleged to have arranged the transfer of at least USD 8.5 million from 2006 to 2012 to get his hands on the Simandou iron-ore deposit in the Republic of Guinea. Switzerland must take preventive action so that it will no longer be complicit in predatory practi...

Geneva, Jan. 11, 2021 (Reuters) The trial of Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz on corruption and forgery charges linked to mining concessions in the West African nation of Guinea opened in a Geneva court on Monday. Steinmetz was indicted in August 2019 by a Geneva prosecutor who accused him and two aides of paying or having $10 million in bribes paid to obtain exploration permits for some of the world’s richest iron-ore deposits. If convicted he could face up to 10 years in prison. Steinmetz...

Billionaire Beny Steinmetzs lawyer went on the offensive in the first day of the Israeli businessman’s trial for bribery, demanding evidence that a prosecutor gathered from "secret" trips to Israel be purged from the indictment. Marc Bonnant blasted Swiss prosecutor Claudio Mascotto for refusing to disclose who he met in Israel in 2017, who covered his costs and why the trips were never disclosed to the court before it was reported in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. "Its not acceptable that we...

Beny Steinmetz, Israeli-French mining tycoon, yesterday appeared in a Swiss court over corruption claims that he paid millions of dollars to Guinean officials for mining franchises, international news...

Beny Steinmetz Pressed on Guinea Deals on Second Day of Bribery Trial Bloomberg 1/12/2021 Hugo Miller and Thomas Biesheuvel (Bloomberg) -- Israeli tycoon Beny Steinmetz defended his investment in an African iron-ore mine, telling a Geneva court that the $5 billion valuation of a site that he secured for less than $200 million was part of the industry’s reward for risk-taking. Steinmetz is testifying during the second day of his trial on charges of bribery in Geneva. He dismi...

SWISS-STEINMETZ/ (PIX):Steinmetz denies corruption in Guinea case; says he was not in charge

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Diamond magnate accused of telling tales at graft trial

Beny Steinmetz grilled on Guinea deals during bribery trial in Geneva Billionaire French-Israeli magnate appears for a second day in court over alleged corruption linked to mining deal in Guinea 12 January 2021 - 20:08 Hugo Miller and Thomas Biesheuvel Billionaire Beny Steinmetz arrives at Geneva criminal court in Geneva, Switzerland, January 11 2020. Picture: STEFAN WERMUTH/BLOOMBERG Geneva — French-Israeli tycoon Beny Steinmetz defended his investment in an African ir...