DRC: Dan Gertler should not benefit from any financial advantage, insists the USA
The DRC has definitively recovered its titles, licenses and mining and oil permits from Dan Gertler’s Ventora Group. The whole having a value of more than 2 billion USD.
Brian Nelson, the US Treasury Department’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, is in Kinshasa. He discussed with the Congolese authorities as well as with civil society actors.
Transparence, the web show of ACTUALITE.CD receives, Floribert Anzuluni, Senior DRC Adviser” for the American organization The Sentry. He answers a series of questions:
-Why was it important to meet with Brian Nelson, US Treasury Department Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence?
– About the amicable settlement between Dan Gertler and the Congolese authorities, Brian Nelson’s response?
-Yet Dan Gertler still benefits from royalties in the DRC?
– You also discussed with Brian Nelson on the Congolese financial and banking system. What was the focus of advocacy?
– In the meantime, have you noticed a momentum for change at the BCC?