New human rights data published on 22 July 2026 name Zijin Mining and Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt, alongside Tsingshan Group, among 10 Chinese firms that account for nearly two-thirds of all documented abuse allegations against Chinese-backed mineral projects worldwide since 2021.

A customs-platform outage put USD1.1 billion in cobalt exports at risk in the country that supplies 70% of the world's cobalt. The failure was administrative, arriving six weeks after Evidencity flagged that every tonne of US cobalt still runs through a single foreign-controlled chokepoint.

In April 2025, Evidencity's Project Tantalus dataset flagged a Rwandan mining company as a suspected handler of minerals smuggled out of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Fourteen months later, the US Treasury sanctioned it.

A recent Withhold Release Order (WRO) against copper and copper products manufactured by Serbia Zijin Copper D.O.O. surfaced on a clean country risk screen, and no sanctions exposure.

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When a criminal network loses its most famous face, the map shows what was really holding it together

The audit got approved. The coltan kept moving

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has initiated dozens of investigations that extend import restrictions well beyond China. Meanwhile, three regulatory regimes tighten simultaneously.

Free trade zones facilitate illicit networks that have moved money laundering from identities to infrastructure. We unpack three ways that money laundering is now more challenging to detect due to network architecture designed to evade screens.