EIB halts Glencore's lending due to governance concerns

The EIB, the European Union's lending institution, provided in 2005 a US$50 million loan to Mopani Copper Mines, a Zambian subsidiary of Swiss-based Glencore, to help pay for the modernization of a copper smelter.

But Mopani has since been accused by some non-governmental organizations — most recently by campaign groups in an open letter signed by a group of European parliamentarians — of tax evasion and of causing widespread pollution.

Glencore, the world's largest diversified commodities trader, listed on the London stock exchange in May in a record-breaking market debut.

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