Published November 21,2024
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The Mali army administration has launched three executives of an Australian mining agency arrested earlier this month, officers confirmed to Anadolu.
Alexandre Goita, particular adviser at Mali’s Mining Ministry, mentioned Resolute Mining Ltd.’s Managing Director Terry Holohan and two different workers had been let out on Thursday.
Holohan and two different firm executives had been taken in police custody from the Economic and Financial Centre in capital Bamako for questioning in a case of alleged forgery and injury to public property.
Sources within the administration mentioned the miner had agreed to pay $160 million to assist resolve a tax dispute.
Resolute Mining Ltd. owns 80% shares in Syama gold mine, positioned in southwestern a part of Mali, near the border with Cote d’Ivoire.
Foreign firms that dominate the mining sector have lately borne the brunt of elevated regulatory controls by the army administration, which seized energy in 2020. The administration has vowed to make sure a extra equitable distribution of mining revenues.
Source: www.anews.com.tr