Gertler's Congo Oil Companies Part of U.S. Probe Into Och-Ziff

U.S. authorities asked Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca to submit the corporate records of two companies controlled by Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler with oil licenses in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as part of a probe into Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC, documents show.

In an August 2015 letter, British Virgin Islands Attorney-General Baba Aziz asked Mossack Fonseca to provide “official and complete records” relating to three of its clients, Foxwhelp Ltd., Caprikat Ltd. and Tremalt Ltd. The letter is one of 11.5 million documents known as the Panama Papers leaked last year to the German paper Süddeutsche Zeitung and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism. It was published April 25 by the amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism in South Africa, an ICIJ partner.