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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: As reported by the BBC, Beny Steinmetz was found guilty, in a Swiss court over the weekend for bribery and corruption in the obtaining of mining rights in Guinea. Steinmetz is the founder and President of BSRG. Yesterday, I detailed the contracts between BSRG and Mamadie Touré which purported to show the amounts of money paid, the schedule of payments and wiring instructions. Today we look at the allegations made at trial, the defenses raised, the verdict and its aftermath. Allegations According to the New York Times (NYT), the allegations “centered on alleged payouts of millions of dollars to a former wife of an ex-president of Guinea, Lansana Conté, who died in 2008. The trial exposed the shady and complex world of deal-making and cutthroat competition in the lucrative mining business.” The corruption was engaged in by the Beny Steinmetz Group (BSRG) which paid $8.5 million to Mamadie Touré, wife o ....
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Text size The evidence against Beny Steinmetz reveals a textbook case of corruption, a Geneva prosecutor said Thursday at the diamond magnate s trial over alleged bribery linked to mining deals in Guinea. Prosecutor Yves Bertossa sought a five-year prison sentence for the French-Israeli businessman, if he is convicted on charges of bribing public officials. The trial at the Geneva Criminal Court is the culmination of a long international investigation into mining permits granted by Guinea to Beny Steinmetz Group Resources (BSGR). It is a textbook case: we have the payments, the contracts. we have all the elements of a case of corruption, Bertossa said. ....