{"id":3928,"date":"2015-01-02T20:17:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T01:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2015-01-02T20:58:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T01:58:20","slug":"louis-freehs-latest-investigation-billionaire-businessman-accused-of-bribing-african-government-the-intercept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3928","title":{"rendered":"Louis Freeh\u2019s Latest Investigation: Billionaire Businessman Accused of Bribing African Government – The Intercept"},"content":{"rendered":"

Louis Freeh\u2019s Latest Investigation: Billionaire Businessman Accused of Bribing African Government – The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Louis Freeh, the former FBI director whose wife was deeded half of a $3 million beachside penthouse by a businessman\u2013just nine days after Freeh cleared that same businessman of wrongdoing\u2013is onto a new job: Helping exonerate a billionaire businessman accused of bribing an African government.<\/p>\n

As I reported here the other day<\/a>, Freeh has made piles of money since leaving government service by hiring himself out to conduct allegedly independent corporate and political investigations. \u00a0These investigations are clearly a growth business, because now Freeh\u2019s firm is helping coordinate the defense of an Israeli billionaire who is being investigated on three continents in regard to bribes he allegedly paid to win a mining stake in one of the world\u2019s poorest countries.<\/p>\n

The case involves Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz, who controls BSGR, a holding company that in 2008 obtained a huge stake in a gigantic iron mine in the West African nation of Guinea. BSGR\u00a0reportedly paid nothing<\/a>\u00a0for its rights to Simandou and two years later flipped 51% of its stake to a Brazilian mining giant for $2.5 billion \u2013 twice the size of Guinea\u2019s annual budget. The deal was consummated two weeks before the death of Lansana Cont\u00e9, a homicidal dictator who had ruled since a 1984 coup.<\/p>\n

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Louis Freeh\u2019s Latest Investigation: Billionaire Businessman Accused of Bribing African Government – The Intercept. Louis Freeh, the former FBI director whose wife was deeded half of a $3 million beachside penthouse by a businessman\u2013just nine days after Freeh cleared that same businessman of wrongdoing\u2013is onto a new job: Helping exonerate a billionaire businessman accused of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,2363,301,392,2364],"class_list":["post-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-africa","tag-beny-steinmetz","tag-fbi","tag-guinea","tag-louis-freeh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3929,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions\/3929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}