$1.6 bil
Age 50
Marital Status Married, 4 Children.
Industry Diamonds, Natural resources & more
His private company, BSG, invests in diamonds, natural resources, real
estate and energy, both in Israel and overseas. Steinmetz also has a 37%
stake in Nikanor, a holding company with copper and cobalt mining assets
located in the Congo, which raised $400 million during an IPO on London's
Alternative Investment Market in July 2006. Steinmetz owns 70% of Bateman
Engineering, which specializes in heavy engineering projects servicing the
mineral and metals industries worldwide.
Ehud Olmert, Benny Steinmetz, Israel Ziv, Shlomo Ben Ami, Victor
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…on this earth by any means necessary! Ehud Olmert, Benny Steinmetz, Israel Ziv, Shlomo Ben Ami, Victor Kenan &
David Tzur – Moussa Dadis Camara’s Jewish roots
Posted on January 4, 2010 by
propaganda press
Inside Intel / Bloody business in Africa
By Yossi Melman
The Defense Ministry is investigating suspicions that Maj. Gen. (ret.)
Israel Ziv, his company CTS Global and his business partners have broken
the law regarding military exports.
The investigations unit of the security division of the ministry, the
export supervisory wing, and the ministry’s legal advisor are involved in
the probe, which has one main focus: the suspicion that
Ziv signed a $10 million
contract to train and supply Guinea’s army without first obtaining the
proper permits.
The story of Ziv’s involvement and that of his partners and other
Israelis (including former Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami and former Tel
Aviv police commander David Tzur) in Guinea appeared in Haaretz in Hebrew
last Friday.
Ziv and Tzur became involved in Guinea following a military coup d’etat
by Capt.
Moussa Dadis Camara, who took power in December 2008 after the death
of previous ruler Lansana Conté. Camara, who suspended the constitution,
clamped down on freedoms in the country and would later be a victim of a
failed assassination attempt by one of his generals.
Wary of both his gendarmerie and the old presidential guard, Camara
began looking for a security expert who would train his own guard of
loyalists.
Mining contracts
Guinea, located on the west coast of Africa, is rich in diamonds, iron
ore, bauxite, uranium and salt mines. Since achieving independence in
1959, it has been controlled by corrupt dictators.
Although there are no official
diplomatic ties with the country, some Israelis frequent Guinea for
business, including international diamond dealer Benny Steinmetz, whose
company, BSGR, received a concession to mine iron ore in the country.
Steinmetz has received further concessions from Camara.
To consolidate his
influence in Guinea, Steinmetz took former prime minister Ehud Olmert with
him during one of his visits to the capital Conakry, where they met with
Camara. Against that background, stories were reported in
the international press that Steinmetz was involved in bringing Israeli
military experts, led by Ziv, into Guinea. Steinmetz denied the stories
and threatened to sue any media outlets which printed them.
Olmert ignored the foreign ministry’s advice not to travel to Guinea,
which is under sanctions imposed by the European Union and African
nations. [an Israeli ignoring laws & flouting decency! shocking!!!]
The truth is that it was not Steinmetz that paved the way for Ziv, but
Israeli Victor Kenan, who has lived in Guinea for several years.
In March 2009 Ziv and some of his people went to Guinea, met the
president and convinced him to grant them a contract to establish and
train his new presidential guard and arm it with more sophisticated
equipment. Before he went to Guinea, Ziv approached the Defense Ministry
and requested permission to contract with Guinea to train forced there.
Ziv and Tzur told Haaretz that they had all necessary papers from the
Defense Ministry in hand, and as soon as the ministry ordered them to
cease their involvement, they did so immediately. But sources in the
defense and foreign ministries are offering a different version of events.
Ziv approached the Defense Ministry, as required by law, and requested
permission to conduct negotiations with Guinea to train military forces
there. But the ministry refused to grant permission, only allowing for Ziv
to carry out a preliminary survey in which the exporter could hear out the
customer’s needs, though he could not discuss a deal or suggest prices.
[see how they all can get tricky?]
According to the information that reached the foreign and defense
ministries, Ziv did not make do with a survey, but conducted negotiations
and signed a contract according to which Global would supply two services
to Guinea.
‘Strategic’
workshops
The first was the establishment and equipping of the presidential guard
unit, and a larger force composed of members of the president’s tribal
loyalists.
The other element of the contract was that Global would teach Guinean
decision-makers in a ‘strategic’ workshop, for the stated purpose of
increasing awareness of democratic values. Responsibility for the workshops
was to have been placed in the hands of former foreign minister Ben-Ami
and former deputy defense minister Ephraim Sneh.
Later on, Ben Ami and Ziv sent former MK and former ambassador to
France Nissim Zvili to Guinea to survey the country for the possibility of
introducing democracy.
When asked by Haaretz why a security consultant like Ziv would send him
for such a mission he replied, “I was told that Ziv is a political adviser
to the Guinean president.”
The contract between Global and Guinea bears the date May 4.
Global representatives claimed to the foreign and defense ministries
that they were not forbidden to negotiate and sign a contract at that
time.
Both state offices think otherwise, and say that Ziv and his people
were forbidden to do so.
UN investigation
In September, the president’s soldiers slaughtered demonstrators who
had gathered in the soccer stadium in Conakry. According to human rights
organizations, 157 people were killed in the massacre, dozens of women
were raped by soldiers and hundreds of demonstrators were beaten. The
French government and the United Nations approached Israel with a request
to examine the involvement of Israeli military advisors in Guinea. [so
both the French who claim to own Guinea and the United Nations knew!!!!
shocking!!!!]
Three days after the slaughter, Ziv, Ben-Ami and Sneh held a discussion
with deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon and other senior officials in
the ministry.
Veteran officials at the ministry were especially surprised by
Ben-Ami’s participation in the session.
“We couldn’t believe that a social
democrat sensitive to the matter of human rights would be involved in this
type of situation, and even more so, in a country like Guinea,” one
of them said. [really!!!? when all of you are slaughtering
Palestinians by the thousands right at home?]
The three tried to overturn the decision not to allow any
security-related exports to Guinea.
“If we had been there, we
could have prevented the massacre,” they claimed.
The discussion became heated when Ayalon rejected their assertion that
they were working for Israel’s interests, and supported the professional
ranks of the ministry. Deputy Foreign Minister Ayalon confirmed to Haaretz
that “It was a difficult meeting, but I don’t comment on matters of
private business in foreign countries.”
A month ago the Foreign Ministry lodged a complaint against Global with
the Defense Ministry’s enforcement committee, whose role is to decide how
to deal with someone who breaks the law and bypasses export permissions.
At their disposal are reprimands, the imposition of fines or transfer of
the matter to a police investigation, if a criminal offense is suspected.
At the Defense Ministry, a decision has not yet been made, and they are
continuing to investigate the matter.
The Defense Ministry spokesman responded to an inquiry by Haaretz that
“the ministry is prohibited from releasing details about enforcement
activities it takes in the case of one exporter or another.”
Global said in response that as far as it knows, there is no
investigation. Rather, they say, it is a technical process of
clarification regarding business norms and they add they are cooperating
with the process.
source:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1138942.html
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Money is the big issue. It
bring out the worst in some people.
He came unstuck.
Benny Steinmetz gears up to raise NIS 4 billion? - Haaretz Daily
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As Benny Steinmetz prepares to float his mining company Cunico on the
London Stock Exchange, hoping to raise about a billion pounds, he is also
gearing up for a NIS 4 billion issue through his company Benny Steinmetz
Group Resources ?(BSGR?), possibly in Israel. ?
BSGR consolidates Steinmetz's mining, metals, energy and engineering
activities.?
A flotation in Tel Aviv would be something of a risk for Steinmetz,
because the company's activities are unfamiliar to Israeli investors. ?
There are no similar companies here, and it is somewhat doubtful that
the research departments of institutional investors have been following
the sector worldwide. On the other hand, precisely because it is a new
area, it gives institutional investors the opportunity to diversify their
portfolios.?
This seems like a reasonable risk to take. The mining sector is in the
midst of a positive cycle, known as a ?super cycle,? and according to
assessments the sector will continue to grow for another 15 years. ?
In fact, large mining companies worldwide estimate that as long as
economic growth in China continues, so will the demand for metals such as
aluminum, nickel, iron and uranium.?
Financially, BSGR is considered a good company, like
Steinmetz's other
businesses. It is apparently not leveraged, profitable, and valued at an
impressive billion dollars at least. The company is active in mining,
where profits are high, and trades in metals, whose prices are constantly
rising. ?
The issue proceeds will enable the company to purchase additional mines
and continue to develop others all over the world.?
The company is considered a substantial player among the private firms
operating in the field, but minor in comparison with public companies,
which began operating 70 to 100 years ago. ?
The five leading firms are traded at a value of $50 billion to $150
billion each.?
BSGR's presence in the public market is designed to accelerate its
growth and in the long term, make it more like the older, large companies.
The value of the public companies held by BSGR is constantly increasing,
and with the Cunico flotation, reaches $7.5 billion.?
Steinmetz's mining group activity, which began in 1998, is based in
Africa and Europe. In Guinea he has lead, iron and aluminum mines, in
Zambia copper. ?
He mines diamonds in Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Copper and cobalt are extracted in the Democratic Republic and Zambia. He
is also involved in uranium exploration in a number of countries, and
deals in nickel in the Balkans.?
Overall, Steinmetz has a reputation for daring and for getting results.
Most of his activity in energy is currently focused around oil drilling in
Russia and Nigeria, and in gas activity in Romania and Russia. ?
The group is managed in London and South Africa. Like everyone else in
the sector, Steinmetz intends to join the alternative energy wave.
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Jew in Africa, Jew after money. Ask who is going to get stitched up. The answer is
locals. The winner will be the Jew.
Jew On Trial In Geneva Charged With $10 Million Bribe And Forgery
[ 12 January 2021 ]
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Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz went on trial on Monday in Geneva for
allegedly forging documents and bribing the wife of Guinea’s former
president in order to secure an iron ore mining concession in the West
African country.
The billionaire owner of mining company
BSG Resources (BSGR) and two of his business associates are accused of
paying late President Lansana Conte’s wife approximately US$10 million for
the right to develop the vast Simandou iron ore in the country’s south.
The defendants are also accused of forging documents in order to conceal the
bribes, according to a copy of the indictment seen by OCCRP................
BSGR also brought a $10 billion lawsuit in New York against billionaire
philanthropist
George Soros and his pro-democracy [
sic ] organization Open Society
Foundations. BSGR alleges that Soros lobbied the government of Guinea to
strip BSGR of its mining rights. The case is pending.
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More Jews, more thieves. How did Soros get
that rich that fast? They do like to complain about
Anti-Semitism. Recall that there are
109 Places Jews Have Been
Expelled From. Was naughty little
Adolf wrong about them? NB Benny also runs the
Steinmetz Diamond Group.
Jew Gets Five Years For Corruption
[ 23 January 2021 ]
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Israeli businessman Beny
Steinmetz has
been found guilty of corruption in Switzerland in a dispute over the world's
richest untapped deposits of iron ore.
Steinmetz, who made his name [ with the
Steinmetz Diamond Group ]
in the diamond business, was indicted in August 2019 by a Geneva prosecutor
over deposits at the Simandou mine in Guinea.
On Friday, judges found him guilty of corrupting foreign agents and
forging documents, sentencing him to five years in jail and a fine of
$56million.
Steinmetz and two aides had been accused of
paying, or having paid, $10 million in bribes to obtain exploration permits
for Simandou and of forging documents to cover it up through a web of shell
companies and bank accounts.
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This is a bit odd. Is there any way of doing business in
Africa without paying bribes? The fancy foot work
would have been to prevent people from being robbed by tax men. Only 2
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