Belgium has started a criminal probe into allegations Apple (AAPL) knowingly sourced “blood minerals” from the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, in what lawyers for the country have called a “massive laundering and greenwashing operation,” David Pilling, Alice Hancock, Laura Dubois, and Michael Acton of The Financial Times reports. In December, the DRC filed criminal complaints in both Belgium and France against Apple’s subsidiaries, alleging they used minerals supplied by armed groups committing atrocities in eastern Congo.
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