South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party downplayed $826,000 in donations from United Manganese of Kalahari Ltd., a mining company partly owned by Russian businessman Viktor Vekselberg.
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party on Monday downplayed $826,000 in donations from United Manganese of Kalahari Ltd., a mining company partly owned by Russian businessman Viktor Vekselberg.by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2018 for supporting “malign activity around the globe,” including the Russian occupation of Crimea.
The Treasury Department stayed on Vekselberg’s trail into the Biden administration. In April 2022, Spanish law enforcement Vekselberg’s yacht at the request of a newly-formed U.S. task force assigned to crack down on sanctions violators. Federal agents raided properties linked to Vekselberg in Florida and New York in September.a Vekselberg associate named Vladimir Voronchenko with violating sanctions and money laundering. Voronchenko allegedly helped Vekselberg pay over $4 million to maintain his $75 million in U.S. properties.
The South African electoral commission recently collected disclosures from all political parties for donations in the past quarter. ANC’s statement included 15 million rand from United Manganese of Kalahari Ltd., a South African mining company whose connections to Vekselberg and heavy donations to the ruling ANC have been a
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