Billionaire Steinmetz Sues FTI Over Soros Smear Campaign Claim
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BSG Resources Ltd., a company controlled by Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz, is suing its former communications adviser FTI Consulting LLP over what it said was a campaign linked to George Soros seeking to strip BSGR of rights to an iron ore project.
BSGR said it filed a lawsuit in a London court today that claims that when FTI appointed former British government minister Mark Malloch-Brown as its European chairman in 2010 the firm was in breach of its contract because of a conflict of interest arising from his links to Soros. The lawsuit said that Soros, who isn’t a defendant in the case, and non-government organizations funded by him connected to Malloch-Brown “were (and remain) engaged in a smear campaign against BSGR.”