Paradise Papers: US puts sanctions on billionaire over dealings in DRC

US says Dan Gertler, whose affairs were exposed in leaked files, has amassed fortune through ‘opaque and corrupt’ dealsThe US government has imposed sanctions on the Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler, whose African business dealings were exposed in the Paradise Papers, over “hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of opaque and corrupt mining and oil deals” in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.In a strongly worded statement, the US president, Donald Trump, placed sa