Paradise Papers Paradise Papers businessman in African bribery inquiry US justice department accuses Dan Gertler of bribing top officials to secure mining rights Dan Gertler, left, visiting a copper and cobalt mine in DRC in 2012. Photograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesA billionaire businessman who featured in the Paradise Papers exposé is under investigation by the US authorities on suspicion of bribing high ranking government officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The payments were allegedly made “both in cash and in kind, including in the form of luxury products and extravagant private travel”. The fund in question is believed to be Och-Ziff, which has already handed $213m (£150m) to the US authorities to settle criminal charges relating to the bribing of DRC officials. The move followed revelations from the Paradise Papers, a massive leak of documents from the offshore law firm Appleby.

Source: The Guardian January 28, 2018 12:22 UTC