00:0130 million dollars.
00:04That's the amount of money that a former holding company of Israeli billionaire Dan Goetler
00:08will pay to settle a Dutch corruption investigation over mining deals in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
00:16The Netherlands registered firm, Fleurette, has been under investigation since 2018.
00:23Investigations have been focusing on whether Fleurette, which served as the holding company for the Goetler Group
00:28and commodities group Glencore paid bribes for copper and cobalt mining rights at below market prices.
00:36It's suspected that tens of millions of US dollars were paid to an advisor of ex-president Joseph Kabila.
00:44Kabila is a close friend of Goetler, who led the country from 2001 to 2019.
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