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117: Patrick Alley | Blood Diamonds, Kleptocrats, Very Bad People & The Investigations Of Global Witness

Curious Worldview Podcast

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Goethe's Bribery in the Congo

The six mine sites were sold to this series of companies at way below commercial value. And then within a very short space of time, and we're looking at sort of weeks or months, was sold on again to one of the world's biggest commodity companies - Glencore. The cost to DRC between those, you know, what they were sold for and then resold for was about one and a half billion dollars. You've got one of the poorest countries in the world losing that kind of money over its key assets. But anyway, that information's out there.

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