John Crawley

John Crawley a former ITSCI governance committee member and president of the Tantalum-Niobium International Study Centre (TIC) who has been accused of buying coltan from sources that have financed militias in eastern Congo and Rwanda is a named director of East Rise Corporation...

It adds that former president of the TIC John Crawley's company CDMC has exported minerals illicitly trafficked from SMB a coltan mine in North Kivu and that ITSCI's governance cannot deal with such conflicts of interest...

The Group concludes that international coltan traders Chris Huber and John Crawley are most likely buying material stolen from the Societe Minière de Bisunzu (SMB) owned by the Mwangachuchu family and contributing to the financing of rebel militia despite Huber's denial and Crawley's refusal to respond to the Group's questions...

From there the main buyers appear to be Swiss commodities trader Chris Huber who is under investigation by the Swiss authorities and John Crawley former president of the Tantalum-Niobium International Study Center (TIC) the global coltan and niobium trade association (AAC Vol 3 No 5 How militias control the mines)...

The law suit and the closure of the mine are linked to the activities of controversial coltan buyers Chris Huber from Switzerland and US citizen John Crawley according to sources close to Mwangachuchu...

Buying spree Local mining and militia experts blame much of the worsening situation on the effects of a new coltan-buying spree by the Swiss businessman Chris Huber and his American business partner John Crawley (AAC Vol 3 No 5 How militias control the mines)...

Muyeye has been trading with a mysterious Hong Kong-based company: African Ventures Limited belongs to the family of John Crawley a United States-based businessman with close links to Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and family interests in Hong Kong and China...