superman7515
January 26th, 2012, 02:35 PM
http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/blog/_/name/assael_shaun/id/7498747/indictment-alleges-former-nba-star-dikembe-mutombo-sought-bilk-country-helped-file
The wannabe smugglers brought a PowerPoint.
That may be the most startling detail in a story full of them about future NBA Hall of Famer and humanitarian Dikembe Mutombo.
While Mutombo was asking the U.S. Department of State to help him stop the illegal export of "conflict minerals" from his native Congo in late 2010, he also was allegedly giving a secret PowerPoint presentation to a Houston oilman to show how easy it would be to smuggle $10 million in gold from the country.
The story is spelled out in this report from the United Nations, which was first reported by the Houston Chronicle last week.
• UN summary
• Mutombo excerpt
• Stem cell spat
It's a 400-page report that, along with alleging cynicism and greed, describes how armed militias are looting the struggling country. But there's nothing quite as cynical and greedy as the scene that U.N. investigators paint of Mutombo trying to interest the oilman in the scheme....
The wannabe smugglers brought a PowerPoint.
That may be the most startling detail in a story full of them about future NBA Hall of Famer and humanitarian Dikembe Mutombo.
While Mutombo was asking the U.S. Department of State to help him stop the illegal export of "conflict minerals" from his native Congo in late 2010, he also was allegedly giving a secret PowerPoint presentation to a Houston oilman to show how easy it would be to smuggle $10 million in gold from the country.
The story is spelled out in this report from the United Nations, which was first reported by the Houston Chronicle last week.
• UN summary
• Mutombo excerpt
• Stem cell spat
It's a 400-page report that, along with alleging cynicism and greed, describes how armed militias are looting the struggling country. But there's nothing quite as cynical and greedy as the scene that U.N. investigators paint of Mutombo trying to interest the oilman in the scheme....