Our friends at RAID (Rights and Accountability in Development) recently published a report called ‘Bribery in its purest form’: Och-Ziff, asset laundering and the London connection. A recent article in the Guardian pointed out that wealthy countries like the UK gain...
Glencore has been nominated for the Public Eye Life Time Award. Add your vote now. Each vote counts! Click here to vote: you’re just one click away from voting! Glencore has been nominated for the 2015 Public Eye Award for continuing business practices that...
Boats waiting to load iron ore at Port Hedland, Australia. Source: The Ocean Foundation Ports in a Storm How does Brazil’s plan for the Porto Sul iron ore export port compare with similar projects around the world? The following case studies draw on recent...
In its new report Och-Ziff, Mugabe’s “Bagmen” and the underpricing of African assets, RAID (Rights and Accountability in Development) calls on the US authorities to investigate a number of questionable transactions in Africa by Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC...
BHP Billiton has been involved with the Inga 3 Dam in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the hope of obtaining electricity for an aluminium smelter. For background to Peter Bosshard’s blog below, see Africa’s Energy Future – Down a Dark Tunnel, NGOs...