[miningmx.com] – BSG Resources claimed in a filing to a New York court last week that dozens of people, including leading South African government officials, knew of “corrupt rigging” of the 2010 Guinean election that lead to the company losing the rights to iron ore resources in the country.
Citing the filing, which was part of a joint motion by all defendants, including Vale, Bloomberg News said some 83 people would have “discoverable information” about the election in Guinea after which BSG lost the rights to the Simandou iron ore deposit.
Rio Tinto brought the action against BSG Resources in which the mining entrepreneur Beny Steinmetz is a shareholder. BSG, which was stripped of its rights to Simandou in April, has denied it used corrupt means to acquire them.
“BSGR has not made allegations against any of the eighty-three individuals but it does believe, either individually or collectively, they will demonstrate the real reasons for the illegal expropriation of BSGR’s mining right in Guinea,’ the company said in an e-mailed statement to Bloomberg News.
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