Ivanhoe's Congo Success Follows Deals With Kabila's Brother
- Canadian miner traded with Zoe Kabila’s businesses five times
- Companies including Nzuri, Traxys also did business with Zoe
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In the two decades since billionaire mining investor Robert Friedland founded Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., his small team has made some of the biggest mineral discoveries in the world.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, it has done so while trading and contracting with companies controlled by one of President Joseph Kabila’s brothers, searches of thousands of pages of Congolese corporate records obtained by Bloomberg show.