January 19, 2022
Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz has lost his bid for information from Brazilian miner Vale that was aimed at bolstering his case in an upcoming trial in the U.K. over an ill-fated Guinean mining project, after a New York judge ruled Wednesday that his requests were too broad.
August 12, 2020
Brazilian mining company Vale SA is asking a New York judge to let it seek documents held by Beny Steinmetz as it pursues litigation in the U.K. relating to a doomed Guinean mining project, saying the Israeli billionaire should not have exclusive access to broader U.S.-style discovery.
June 26, 2020
Vale SA told a Manhattan federal court Friday that Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz's attempt to open a new front in the battle over a soured Guinean mining project is a "transparent publicity stunt" crafted to divert attention away from his alleged fraudulent behavior.
May 26, 2020
Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz is claiming that new evidence recently uncovered by the Israeli private intelligence agency Black Cube in his long-running dispute with Vale SA over a doomed Guinean mining project shows that the Brazilian miner knew about the alleged fraud underpinning the deal from the beginning.