The final weeks of 2016 saw an uptick in activity in the bribery and money laundering investigations surrounding mining rights in the West African country of Guinea.

On December 13, 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice arrested and charged Guinea’s former Minister of Mines and Geology, Mahmoud Thiam, with laundering $8.5 million in bribes he allegedly received from a Chinese conglomerate in exchange for, among other things, near total control of Guinea’s mining sector. …
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