The non-profit group TRIAL has filed a criminal complaint against a Swiss company for allegedly laundering gold pillaged from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The company, Argor-Heraeus, has denied any wrongdoing.
In the criminal complaint, Track Impunity Always (TRIAL) accused Argor-Heraeus of complicity in "war crimes and pillage." The Swiss NGO said that the company refined three tons of gold pillaged from the DRC by the militant group National Integrationist Front (FNI).
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