Angola-gate case goes on without ‘extraordinary operator’

By Peter Newbatt Smith

That was then . . . One chapter of the Center’s 2002 report Making a Killing: The Business of War was devoted to Arcadi Gaydamak, whom we de

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"… pped from Russia and other Eastern European countries to the government of Angola, then engaged in a civil war. The United Nations had imposed an arms embar …"

"… engaged in a civil war. The United Nations had imposed an arms embargo on Angola, and France maintained that Falcone’s company did not have government au …"

"… s company did not have government authorization for the sales.After the “Angola-gate” scandal broke in France in 2000, Gaydamak lived primarily in Israe …"

"… or of Jerusalem. On the same day, in Paris, court proceedings began in the Angola-gate case involving Gaydamak, Falcone, and roughly 40 former French offici …"

A Spy Inc. no stranger to controversy

LONDON / WASHINGTON, June 12, 2002 — Even within the secretive world of private military companies, AirScan is noted for being unforthcoming

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"… in California. AirScan also has contracts in the war zones of Colombia and Angola, where it guards oil pipelines for U.S. companies, and is part of the U.S. …"

"… n civilian prosecutors and the military.By 1993, the company was active in Angola, providing aerial surveillance operations to oil companies. AirScan’s mi …"

"… Liberation of Cabinda (FLEC) and by UNITA forces.AirScan’s commander in Angola was U.S. Brigadier General Joe Stringham, a decorated Special Forces veter …"

"… a, ECOPETROL (National Oil Company of Colombia), Cabinda Gulf Oil Company (Angola), and SONANGOL (National Oil Company of Angola).” Chevron owns 40 percen …"

Making a killing

By Phillip van Niekerk

Overview story for Making a killing: The business of war

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"… war during the past decade – especially in places like Sierra Leone and Angola – is merely an extreme form of criminality. Some of the arms dealers and …"

"… ostly from state-owned Eastern European factories, have found their way to Angola, Sudan, Ethiopia, Colombia, Congo-Brazzaville, Sri Lanka, Burundi and Afgh …"

"… president of Liberia, or more sophisticated elites, such as the rulers of Angola. But to sell diamonds and timber and oil onto the world market requires fo …"

"… hich both sides could loot and profiteer.When Jonas Savimbi, the leader of Angola's rebel UNITA forces, refused to accept his defeat in elections in Angola …"

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Greasing the skids of corruption

By Phillip van Niekerk and Laura Peterson

Money from multinational oil companies moves through labyrinths of international bank accounts, avoiding national budgets and banks

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"… confidential."We're trying to work out where all this money is going," an accountant familiar with the diagnostic told ICIJ. "Most or all of the money goes to …"

The influence peddlers

By Yossi Melman and Julio Godoy

Arcadi Gaydamak epitomized the business of war in the post-Cold War era – an entrepreneur with global ties to resource exploitation

Excerpts from this story referencing "Angola":

"… wars into a honey pot of enrichment for himself and influential friends in Angola, Israel, Russia and France.Giuliani likely did not know that the short, st …"

"… n arms manufacturing company, ZTS Osos, whose weapons Gaydamak sold to the Angolan government during the early 1990s. An Interpol document obtained by ICIJ …"

"… luence peddling, money laundering and illegal arms sales scandal involving Angola that erupted in France in December 2000 and came to be known as "Angolagat …"

"… ng Angola that erupted in France in December 2000 and came to be known as "Angolagate."The investigation began when two French prosecutors were appointed to …"

The merchant of death

By André Verlöy

With 300 employees and a large fleet of cargo planes, Victor Bout's actions were near impossible to track

Excerpts from this story referencing "Angola":

"… onships with various African heads of state and rebel leaders – the late Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, Liberian President Charles Taylor, former Zai …"

"… ors have accused Bout of shipping contraband weapons to rebel movements in Angola and Sierra Leone and to the Taylor regime in Liberia. Bout and his associa …"

"… iberia. Bout and his associates operate, or have operated, in Afghanistan, Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, …"

"… of ammunition — that ended up in the hands of Savimbi's UNITA forces in Angola, according to a 2000 U.N. report. The shipments were worth $14 million.Chi …"

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China-based corporate web behind troubled Africa resource deals

What’s behind the high-flying conglomerate?

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"… China-Sonangol is part of a global network of companies extracting oil in Angola, buying gold in Zimbabwe, building luxury condominiums in Singapore and de …"

"… frican leaders such as Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe and Eduardo dos Santos in Angola. There are also questions about the company’s work in Guinea, where …"

"… ompanies, CIF has acquired shares in a dozen oil fields, a diamond mine in Angola and substantial ownership of “development companies” that have won rig …"

"… e and bauxite deposits in Guinea.In just a few years, CIF has parlayed the Angolan deals into a new business model for resource deals in Africa. Partnering …"

Africa's 'merchant of death' sold arms to the Taliban

By Phillip van Niekerk and André Verlöy

WASHINGTON, January 31, 2002 — Victor Bout, the Russian arms trafficker whose clandestine sales of weapons of war to some of the bloodiest r

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"… United Arab Emirates.Rabinovich, who has denied the allegations, told the Kiev newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda that he was the victim of a smear campaign by …"

Marc Rich inquiry highlights strange bedfellows

By Josey Ballenger

WASHINGTON, March 9, 2001 — Buried in the furor over former President Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich is the role the fugitive commodities tra

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"… y, but the South African Defense Force was backing the guerrilla armies of Angola and Mozambique, trying to overturn the black Marxist governments in those …"

Marketing the new 'Dogs of War'

By Duncan Campbell

Sri Lankans hire Tim Spicer, a man already involved in global mercenary activities

Excerpts from this story referencing "Rupert Bowen":

"… pport his activities that could embarrass those establishment connections. Rupert Bowen, whose overt career as a British diplomat in Europe and Namibia was later …"

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