Mamadie Touré

In 2017 Steinmetz lost a defamation case against Soros whom he accused of having paid a key figure in his bribery case Guinean businesswoman and former presidential wife Mamadie Touré to give evidence against him...

The company was accused of having signed confidential contracts guaranteeing Mamadie Touré then the wife of Guinean head of state Lansana Conté millions of dollars for assisting it to secure the mining rights for the blocks...

It dropped its arguments over whether Touré's documents were fake and her marital status and concentrated on three main lines (AC Vol 63 No 19 Steinmetz plays his get out of jail card): Even if BSGR was paying Mamadie Touré in a bid to influence the government it would not have been corruption as these are not offences under Swiss law; It doesn't matter whether Touré was the President's legal wife or not as she would not qualify as a public official; Steinmetz's lawyer Christian Lüscher who is also an influential MP said the judge in the case 'risked being biased' because 20 years ago she worked for the same legal firm as Claudio Mascotto who as public prosecutor launched the Swiss investigation into Steinmetz in 2013 (AC Vol 63 no 18 Steinmetz heads for the endgame)...

BSGR was accused of having signed secret contracts promising Mamadie Touré wife of then-President Lansana Conté millions of dollars for her help in obtaining the blocks...

The court convicted him of paying $10 million in bribes to Mamadie Touré one of the four wives of former Guinean President Lansana Conté to have the licences to mine Guinea's vast Simandou iron ore deposit transferred to him in 2008...

Steinmetz was found to have paid millions of dollars to Mamadie Touré one of then-Guinean President Lansana Conté's four wives for the mining licences between 2006 and 2012...

Cilins – one of a trio of key middlemen for BSGR – denies any bribery and claims he was acting on his own personal initiative when he repeatedly travelled to Jacksonville Florida in 2013 to see Mamadie Touré the wife of the late Guinean President Lansana Conté (AC Vol 54 No 9 The fight for Mount Simandou)...

5m of Rotweiler funds being transferred to a company called Gobain in June 2011 and onwards to Mamadie Touré over the following months...

In April 2019 a London arbitration court found against BSGR in a claim brought by Vale over whether BSGR had bribed Mamadie Touré Conté the fourth wife of the late dictator Lansana Conté...

BSGR executives were accused of having bribed Mamadie Touré Conté the fourth wife of the late dictator Lansana Conté to gain mining rights to the northern half of Simandou...

Mamadie Touré says BSGR offered her millions of dollars and shares in the Simandou Mine as payment for helping to secure the lease on Blocks 1 and 2...

It also includes footage of Mamadie Touré being introduced to senior BSGR staff...

IST is the elder brother of Mamadie Touré who has turned state witness in the US case...

We have seen court documents describing Mamadie Touré as a businesswoman controlling a company called Matinda and Company Limited...

Other documents produced for the US prosecutors include a ‘Protocol of agreement’ signed by Mamadie Touré and Avidan on 28 February 2008 which guarantees her 5% of the BSGR deal if the company gets the rights to Simandou Blocks 1 and 2...