3315 days ago
John Helmer is a legend among journalists. Resident in Moscow since 1989 he has been threatened numerous times for breaking stories of corruption in the financial markets and elsewhere in Russia and also in China and Asia. He is a brave man and a hero in our profession and he used to contribute to Minesite filing some stunning articles on the mining world. That was until February 2011.
Then he tried to file this article. It did not appear. And so Helmer put it up on his own website. As you can see it is rather critical of Jim Mellon and his long-time business partner Steve Dattels. And
