Just before he left, in a last-minute covert action, the Trump administration licensed Israeli mining magnate Dan Gertler and his companies to, in effect, lift sanctions previously imposed by the US Treasury Department. Brad Brooks-Rubin, managing director of The Sentry and a former US Department of the Treasury Sanctions lawyer, said in essence that issuing such a license to a person facing sanctions for corrupt and covert activity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and elsewhere by the Trump administration deals a devastating blow to the heart of one of the most lauded and successful anti-corruption programs of the past decade. And this is precisely what The Sentry urges banks to maintain lockdowns on transactions and assets related to Gertler and its network of companies and affiliates.
