Inside the two-week reveal of Chris Ellison’s power over his empire

It was in the winter of 2019 that a series of incriminating emails began to disappear from Mineral Resources’ servers. The emails are said to reveal how the mining giant’s founder, Chris Ellison, and four executives used a holding in the British Virgin Islands to sell the company equipment at huge markups.

When the MinRes board went looking for the emails – and the traces of the documents that were supposed to be there – they were gone. On Monday, a board review led by chairman James McClements concluded there had been “an attempt to avoid information … becoming public.”

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