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Central Africa
Nicolae Buzaianu pitches bitcoin venture in CAR

Swiss-Romanian businessman Nicolae Bogdan Buzaianu, who is energetically courting officials in the Central African Republic, is looking beyond timber into generating cryptocurrency and setting up bitcoin mining centres in the country. [...]

Published on 03/03/2022 at 05:00 GMT

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Nicolae Bogdan Buzaianu
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Controversial trader Nicolae Buzaianu reinvents himself in Bangui

For a time the partner of the ex-Gambian president Yahya Jammeh in a rosewood venture, the Swiss-Romanian trader Nicolae Bogdan Buzaianu, whose business activities in both Gambia and Romania have attracted judicial scrutiny, has met with CAR president Faustin-Archange Touadéra several times of late.

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