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Secret dealings tying UK Conservatives' CEO to bribery scandal billionaire

A company fronted by the Chief Executive of the British Conservative Party is set to pay $50 million to seal a deal between the government of Guinea and a mining firm that has engaged in high-level bribery there

BSGR: We haven’t been intimidated or taken instructions from anybody so far, and we’re not about to start

Bribery arrest over multi-billion dollar mining rights and the UK's tax havens

Bribery arrest over multi-billion dollar mining rights and the UK's tax havens

Guinea’s bribery saga reaches new peaks

New revelations increase the heat on Rio Tinto and BSGR over secretive Guinea payments.

Guinea's "Deal of the Century"

It’s not often a story sets out the mechanics of corruption as starkly as the foray by billionaire Beny Steinmetz’s BSG Resources into Guinea.

Spin and Secrecy in the Carribean

Corruption arrest in US puts Beny Steinmetz Group Resources in the frame

The US authorities have arrested a man in Florida in connection with the controversial acquisition of mining rights in Guinea by Beny Steinmetz Group…

Global Witness to resist attempt to stifle public-interest reporting

Officials of the companies Beny Steinmetz Group Resources and Onyx Financial Advisers have filed a claim in the UK High Court against Global Witness under the Data Protection Act. The officials are using the Act to demand that Global Witness hand over information relating to them, gathered in the course of reporting on a major corruption scandal. Global Witness intends to robustly defend its position and regards the claim as an attempt to stifle journalism in the public interest.

Guinean corruption inquiry moves to strip diamond billionaire of his “deal of the century”

A government committee in Guinea today recommended stripping diamond billionaire Beny Steinmetz of one of the world’s biggest iron ore concessions on evidence his company bribed the president’s wife.

Information Commissioner throws out Beny Steinmetz complaint against Global Witness

Diamond billionaire Beny Steinmetz has failed in a bid to force Global Witness to hand over source material gathered in a corruption investigation after the UK’s data watchdog upheld statutory protections for public-interest journalism.