Beny Steinmetz

Benny is a Jew with a curious background. He does not [ in August 2010 but he does now in 2013 as the police close in ] have an entry in the Wikipedia. Perhaps not everybody who is anybody does. Perhaps he is not guilty. One way and another there is not much information on him out there but Private Eye tells us as much as anyone, in fact a good deal more. See Politics In Guinea for their offering. Benny, the boss of the Steinmetz Diamond Group is not a nice man but then he is a rich Jew who knows Olmert, thief, Jew and ex-prime minister of Israel. More on the connection below at Ehud Olmert & Benny. They all hang to together so that they do not hang separately.

Politics In Guinea - Letter from Conakry, the capital of Guinea to Private Eye 1262 page 16
Told us in some detail that doing business in Guinea is deeply corrupt. All politics in Africa are tribal. Policy is: Get it while the getting is good. Their politics involve mining and foreigners. This does not have to mean problems but given the realities of corruption, tribal quarrels et cetera it is the same old Africa. Private Eye tells all or maybe just more than the rest. It does not say whether Benny screwed Conté's wife.

From Left to Right: Marion Wiesel [ Wife of Holocaust racketeer? ], François Curiel (auctioneer), Anis Steinmitz, Prof. Elie Wiesel, and Benny Steinmetz who is not down right ugly.

 

Benny Steinmetz - Forbes.com
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The World's Billionaires
#583 Benny Steinmetz
03.08.07, 6:00 PM ET
Age: 50
Fortune: inherited and growing
Source: diamonds
Net Worth: $1.7 bil
Country Of Citizenship: Israel
Residence: Belgium , Israel, Middle East & Africa
Industry:
Marital Status: married, 4 children
Education:
Chairman of the Geneva-headquartered Steinmetz Diamond Group, the largest customer of De Beers. Like most diamond dealers, Steinmetz is moving upstream to insure a reliable supply of rough diamonds. Last year he won 11 diamond-manufacturing licenses in Botswana; he also boasts mining licenses in the Congo, Sierra Leone and Zambia (all of which pit him directly against his iconic supplier). Steinmetz also has a 37% stake in Nikanor, a holding company with copper and cobalt mining assets located in Congo, which raised $400 million in an initial public offering on London's Alternative Investment Market in July 2006.
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Big in diamonds. Private Eye has that right if nothing else.

 

Benny Steinmetz CV
$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 comments made it past the Mail's censors. They are nervous about Free Speech and truth.