Rise Project: How Horatio Potra raised millions of dollars to protect China's interests in Africa

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Horațiu Potra is accused of receiving $8 million from the Chinese Communist Party between 2015 and 2018 to protect the economic interests of a Chinese metallurgical giant in Sierra Leone. The article Horațiu Potra, accused of receiving $8 million from the Chinese Communist Party to protect China's economic interests in Africa first appeared on Romania TV.

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Horațiu Potra, the leader of a group of Romanian mercenaries active in the civil war in Congo, raised nearly $8 million over three years to protect the Chinese Communist Party's economic interests in Africa, according to a...

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Horațiu Potra received 8 million dollars and protected the Chinese Communist Party's economic interests in Africa with his mercenaries.

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Horațiu Potra, the leader of a group of Romanian mercenaries, received $8 million from a Chinese company between 2025 and 2018 to guard mines, construction sites and logistics bases in the African state of Sierra Leone. The money was collected through offshore companies, a Rise Project investigation shows. Horațiu Potra, a former Romanian military and mercenary, collected $8 million over three years to protect China's economic interests in Afric…

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Horațiu Potra, the leader of a group of Romanian mercenaries, received $8 million from a Chinese company between 2015 and 2018 to guard mines, construction sites and logistics bases in the African state of Sierra Leone. The money was collected through offshore companies, according to a Rise Project investigation.

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Horațiu Potra collected almost eight million dollars, over three years, to protect the economic interests of the Chinese Communist Party in Africa, Rise Project writes in an investigation published on Wednesday. The Romanian mercenary received the money in an offshore company established in Malta, which...