In August 2016, only eight weeks into Jean-Sebastien Jacques’ leadership of Rio Tinto, the company “became aware of email correspondence from 2011 relating to contractual payments totalling $US10.5 million made to a consultant providing advisory services on the Simandou project in Guinea”.
Former Rio Tinto chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques.
Bloomberg
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