I did some digging in the german newspaper. It is a serious german newspaper.
https://taz.de/Umstrittene-Geschaefte-in-Zentralafrika/!5693175/
There is an interesting article about Klaus Eckhoff, AJN, Kabila and much more. Released 06/2020. It also mentions AVZ. Hier is the Google Translation of the Part.
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Transactions with the Kabila clan
Eckhof is not unknown in the Congo. By his own account, he has been active for over twenty years in the country. He was one of the few who have acquired capital for mining projects, he says: "200 million US dollars for Moto Gold Mines (now Kibali), 30 million for alphamine, 50 million for AVZ, 70 million for Amani."
The case AVZ Minerals is spectacular. As managing director of the Australian company Landeckhof led from 2016 to 2018, the lithium mines of Manono in the province of Tanganyika - Congo holds 15 percent of the world reserves of this very coveted for electric car batteries metal.
This business points to a close relationship between Landeckhof and the environment of the long-standing Congolese President Joseph Kabila accused the critic corrupt commodity business.
His younger brother, Zoe Kabila, is governor of the province Tanganyika. Whose business associate Théophas Mahuku, a member of parliament from Manono, threaded a rights assignment to the AVZ Minerals. 2016, the mining rights were initially to a company of Chinese Min Gui Wei, also head of the Congolese-Chinese mining company Sicomines. Min was soon replaced by Cong Mao Huai, took a business associate of Klaus Eckhof, AVZ on board.
Cong Mao Huai led a Eckhof even with SOKIMO. 2012 was between SOKIMO and "Landeckhof Amani Consulting" the first joint venture Giro Goldfields. The Landeckhof-Moto Gold Mines, worked in the gold mines Kibali, worked with a company controlled by Zoe Kabila subcontractor. These pocketed US $ 4.4 million, sold as Moto its share of Kibali to the mining company Randgold.
Decision pending
Klaus eckhof describes this as "rumors" and stressed that he was working with Congo together current government, not with the old - but SOKIMO-President Annie Kithima was appointed by Kabila in 2018, and Congo's treasury and Mining Minister belong to his political camp.
A final decision in the Congo is still pending. For dispute the gold mines of Kibali should provide. As 2018 Randgold with the mining company Barrick Gold merged and"