{"id":4494,"date":"2014-07-26T17:40:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T10:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4494"},"modified":"2014-07-26T17:40:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T10:40:25","slug":"french-businessman-jailed-for-2-years-in-guinea-mining-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/french-businessman-jailed-for-2-years-in-guinea-mining-case\/","title":{"rendered":"French businessman jailed for 2 years in Guinea mining case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A French businessman who sought to obstruct a US investigation into an alleged bribery scheme to secure multibillion-dollar African mining rights for Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz\u2019s business empire has been jailed for two years and fined $75,000.<\/p>\n<p>In a New York court on Friday, Frederic Cilins became the first person to receive a criminal sentence in a corruption investigation that centres on a world-class iron-ore deposit beneath a Guinean mountainside and which now spans three continents&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Guinea News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/64fb3f4e-1427-11e4-9acb-00144feabdc0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A French businessman who sought to obstruct a US investigation into an alleged bribery scheme to secure multibillion-dollar African mining rights for Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz\u2019s business empire has been jailed for two years and fined $75,000. In a New York court on Friday, Frederic Cilins became the first person to receive a criminal sentence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,3260,3261,3262,4715,1124,3263,257,254,4692],"class_list":["post-4494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african-mining-rights","tag-beny-steinmetz","tag-frederic-cilins","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-iron-ore-deposit","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}