Tens of millions of dollars in royalties and signing bonuses that Glencore told an independent transparency board it had paid to Congo's state mining company actually went to a business controlled by...Dan Gertler...Global Witness said...Glencore-controlled Kamoto Copper Co (KCC) told the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in 2013 and 2014...that the payments were made to Gecamines...Glencore acknowledged in a statement to Reuters that KCC paid the royalties and signing bonuses in 2013 and 2014 to Africa Horizons Investment Ltd (AHIL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Gertler's Fleurette Group, rather than Gecamines. But Glencore said this was what Gecamines instructed it to do. Glencore said the payments to AHIL "discharged KCC's obligation to make these payments to Gecamines". Glencore said KCC made the payments to AHIL "in accordance with the payment instruction from Gecamines and the subsequent tri-partite royalties agreement between KCC, Gecamines and AHIL"...AHIL has been receiving Gecamines' 2.5 percent royalty stream since at least 2013, though this was only made public last November in a separate report by Global Witness. Fleurette has said AHIL bought the royalty right from Gecamines, although it has not disclosed for how much...Fleurette later added in a statement to Reuters that KCC’s payments to AHIL were in part the repayment of a chunk of a $196 million loan Fleurette made to Gecamines in 2013...Glencore bought Fleurette Group's 31 percent stake in the Mutanda copper mine in southeast Congo and its smaller stake in KCC for a total of $960 million. A Fleurette spokesman told...after the sale that the company had retained its royalty streams in Mutanda and KCC.