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In March 2005 Gertler’s DGI (Dan Gertler International) in partnership with Beny Steinmetz’s Global Resources (BSGR) formed Global Enterprises Corporate (GEC), with former Congo mines minister, Simon Tuma-Waku as “special adviser”.
Steinmetz was once named as the biggest buyer of De Beers diamonds.

President Donald couldn't pardon him in Switzerland...

Blood diamond merchant Beny Steinmetz was convicted for bribing officials to reap iron ore resources in the West African country Guinea. He was sentenced to 5 years in Swiss prison and a $56.5 million fine.
In 2005, Steinmetz started paying bribes totaling nearly $10 million to Conté, who ruled Guinea from 1984 until his death: https://archive.is/HZYKB


Beny Steinmetz is another client of Alan Dershowitz, and his family is deeply in business with Ivanka Trump's husband Jared Kushner.

In 2009, Beny Steinmetz invested $10 million in the Elliott Broidy (Trump and Mnuchin connected) controlled Israeli Markstone Capital.

In 2012, the Kushners and Raz Steinmetz’s investment firm Gaia (Raz is Beny Steinmetz's nephew) joined forces to buy nearly $190 million worth of apartment buildings in lower Manhattan.

Beny Steinmetz is also in business with the ENRC of the Kazakh Trio — Alexander Mashkevich, Patokh Chodiev and Alijan Ibragimov (associated with Trump's paedophile buddy Tevfik Arif): https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtop...6963#p6963


Israeli Chabad-Lubavich billionaire Dan Gertler was sanctioned in December 2017 by the US Treasury for bribing Congo officials to get his hand on mining rights (including diamonds). This prohibited Gertler from doing business with U.S. citizens, companies or banks. The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the world’s richest countries in natural resources, while the population is dirt poor.
Dan Gertler is also a business partner of Beny Steinmetz (who was recently convicted in Switzerland), whose nephew is in business with Jared Kushner (husband of Ivanka Trump).

Gertler hired Alan Dershowitz (him again!) and former FBI director Louis Freeh to petition the U.S. government to remove him from the sanctions list.
On 15 January, in its final week as U.S. President, Donald Trump’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (of the Treasury Department) eased sanctions against Dan Gertler. While the license doesn't remove Gertler, or his more than 30 companies, from the sanctions list... it authorises, until 31 January 2022, “all transactions and activities” otherwise prohibited by sanctions against them.

In other words, until 31 January 2022 he can conduct business in the US as if he isn't sanctioned.
The most important aspect is probably that also Gertler’s assets are unblocked that have been held by banks in the US, including Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Bank of New York Mellon and Wells Fargo.
If he quickly moves his funds it wouldn't matter much if the Biden administrations cancels the license.

This was done secretly, without being announced by the Trump administration. Until somebody leaked this to the press.

Sasha Lezhnev, of The Sentry commented that the license allows “one of the world’s most corrupt tycoons to largely walk free and do business at U.S. banks.
The Biden administration should immediately reverse the decision and revoke the license for Gertler and his corporate empire, as the sanctions already had a wave of impact on corruption in the DR Congo”: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-g...SKBN29U1M7