The $75,000,000.00 ultimatum

Votre Excellence,

Cette lettre fait suite à ma rencontre avec votre Consul Honoraire Mr. Jeff Gilmour. Sur les conseils de Mr. Gilmour j’ai l’honneur de solliciter une entrevue privée avec vous à Ottawa.
Au cours des dix derniers mois je vous ai fourni des documents relatifs aux sérieuses difficultés que j’ai rencontrées avec IAMGOLD.
Au vu de ces documents je pense qu’il est indéniable que mon père, James Clinton Snell a rendu service au peuple malien avec la découverte des mines de Sadiola et de Yatela. Ce service a été rendu au peuple malien sans aucune rémunération.
A ce jour le solde restant dû à mon père au titre de ses services et des royalties s’élève à plus de $75,000,000.00 (soixante quinze millions de dollars).
Mon souhait est que le gouvernement du Mali, au vu de la contribution de mon père, soutienne ma famille et adresse un ultimatum à IAMGOLD. Ainsi il me parait raisonnable d’intimer à IAMGOLD l’ordre de régler leur dette à l’égard de ma famille sous peine de retrait de leur droit d’exploitation au Mali. Je souhaiterais également qu’IAMGOLD soit contraint de renommer la mine « Sadiola » la mine « James C. Snell » en mémoire de mon défunt père.
Si vous deviez m’accorder le privilège d’une entrevue je me ferais un plaisir de vous fournir d’autres données géologiques en guise de cadeau au gouvernement du Mali.

Respectueusement,
James Westgate Snell

My recent trip to the IAMGOLD AGM in Toronto

I guess I was scared and empowered somewhat. The IAMGOLD AGM seemed to be an enthusiastically attended event. It was held at the St.Andrew's club downtown Toronto (King Street). I walked 4 miles to the meeting to burn off nervous energy and to think. I had called the company beforehand and asked if I could attend as a guest. I said I was a "business" (health care business) student from Athabasca University and that my name was James. No last name. One of the investor relations ladies said it was OK for me to attend. When I got to the 27th floor at the St. Andrew's club there were people taking registrations with laptops. I was VERY nervous that I would need to give them my last name as Peter Koven from the Financial Post had given a director of the company my website address some days before. So I went down to the lobby to think a bit more. While I was there, two lovely ladies burdened with paperwork and boxes came in off the street. Naturally, I offered to aid them not knowing who they were. When I got closer, their IAMGOLD name tags stood out. I switched into my yet to be discovered espionage mode and decided to become their best friend. They were headed upstairs to the AGM. I carried a bunch of their stuff and got them laughing. I walked right past the check-in desk. I was the first person in the room...except for the CEO (Joe) and Chairman (William), the man who started the company with Mark Nathanson. I was right in front of him eating a fruit bar. He had no clue who I was or what was about to happen to him. Around 150 people?, a packed house, filed in. The presentation from the Chairman and CEO were substandard and boring. It was amazing to see the wealth of the company. A reaction of money harvesting from the Africans that my father had catalyzed with his hard work, skill and honesty. Peter Koven from the Financial Post and a reporter from Reuters were there. Although Peter had turned me onto the meeting and suggested I attend, he was unenthusiastic and asked me to not mention his name. This was very discouraging. I was the second person to stand up and "ask a question". Over the period of 20 minutes I respectfully told the sad story. I was nervous and emotional at times. The CEO (Joe) tried to shut me down twice but I managed maintain what was left of my composure and continue. Shocking. I told him he had been warned that I would tell the story. And I did warn him in the Fall of 2008. I just did not tell him that I would drop the bomb in front of investors and media. Mission accomplished for my Dad. I have no idea what was said afterwards as I left immediately after handing out some website cards.

James

Motto for the IAMGOLD AGM
"SPEAK THE TRUTH...BUT LEAVE IMMEDIATELY AFTER"

My mother's letter to the editor (published this week) National Post

Dear Sir

Tears stream down my face as I write this letter. There are many reasons
which cause suicide.
In the case of my family the cause was dishonesty and greed by a Canadian
mining company. The father of my children discovered vast gold fields in West
Africa and although he was legally entitled to some of this wealth he never
received one cent. After years of believing in the decency of this company he
fell into a deep depression from which he never recovered and two years ago
blew his brains out. My brave sons cleaned up all that was left of this
wonderful human being.
We mourn his death daily. I pray that the owners and shareholders of this
company will perhaps make good, although no amount of gold can bring back our
beloved friend, father and grandfather.
Sincerely
Madeleine Jones

CORPORATE CRIME BUSTER....Mr. Nathanson integrates himself into Canadian law and politics

http://www.nicaso.com/pages/doc_page45.html

Corporate crime buster
York University's Jack & Mae Nathanson Centre for the Study of Organized Crime & Corruption

By Stevie Cameron / Maclean's
Mark Nathanson is flustered, clearly not used to questions about his life and his career. "I've lived in the shadows,'' he says. "Quietly.'' Not so quietly now. This week, at a ceremony in Toronto, Solicitor General Herb Gray will lead an international group of academics, politicians, judges, police officers and lawyers in a celebration of an extraordinary, $3-million gift that Nathanson has made to Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. Its purpose: to fund the Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption. The centre, named after Nathanson's parents, is the only one of its kind in Canada, and has few counterparts anywhere in the world. And the man funding it is intriguing in his own right. At 50, Nathanson, one of two children of a family that operated a wholesale grocery company in Sydney, N.S., has quietly built an immense fortune with an impressive array of enterprises: from African gold mining to consumer electronics, and from intelligence equipment used by governments to an international forensic investigation company headed by his close friend and partner, Rod Stamler, former assistant commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
"I always wanted to be a policeman,'' says Nathanson, sitting in the spacious condominium in downtown Toronto that he visits a few weeks each year. "But I didn't want to live on a policeman's salary. I had to make some money first.''
While Nathanson has built a business empire that spans the globe, the academic venture he is now funding will study the ways in which the global economy has made both companies and countries increasingly vulnerable to organized crime. "Canadians tend to believe the best of each other,'' says Osgoode Hall dean Marilyn Pilkington. "But they can't afford to be vulnerable through lack of awareness.'' To open immediately, the centre will be headed by York criminologist Margaret Beare, author of Criminal Conspiracies: Organized Crime in Canada, published last year. And its advisory board reads like a who's who of criminal law: Ward Elcock, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, RCMP Commissioner Philip Murray, Toronto police Chief David Boothby, lawyers Edward Greenspan and John Rosen (defence lawyer of convicted murderer Paul Bernardo), and Antonio Nicaso, managing editor at the Italian-language daily Corriere Canadese, and an expert on organized crime, who conceived the original idea for the centre.
Working with officials at York, that impressive team has created an interdisciplinary graduate centre that will offer up to eight fellowships a year to students in a range of disciplines, including law, criminology, sociology, economics and political science. Along with professors from across the university, students will investigate ways to improve the efforts of governments, police forces and private businesses to understand the world of organized crime. According to Beare, it is a world that increasingly crosses both international borders--and the more nebulous divide between underworld operations and white collar activities. "When the Russian mafia first came to Canada, they relied on violence,'' notes Beare. "That is less true now. Like any criminal group, it can substitute corruption for violence, and influence officials that way.''
For Nathanson, the centre reflects an abiding interest in the complexities of organized crime--and a fitting addition to a career that has spanned the globe. A dropout of St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S., Nathanson, who now lives in the Bahamas with his wife, Maria, first moved abroad in 1971. From a base in England, he marketed consumer electronics products across Europe. In 1983, he launched a business selling intelligence equipment in Africa. By the second half of the decade, he had founded a gold mining company in Mali whose discoveries include a deposit now estimated to contain eight million ounces. Today, International African Mining Gold Corporation, known as IAMGOLD, is exploring fields in three South American countries, and is involved in joint ventures exploring others in five African states.
In 1990, working with former RCMP assistant commissioner Stamler, Nathanson established International FIA Holdings Ltd. (the acronym stands for Forensic Investigative Associates). Acting, in the words of Stamler, "almost like a private Interpol,'' it searches out embezzlers and other white collar criminals, and traces and recovers stolen assets.
Then, in 1995, Nathanson and Stamler started kicking around another idea: establishing an academic centre that could link experts, and develop further knowledge, in the shady world of which they were fast becoming hands-on experts. York, they decided, was a natural choice. Nathanson admired York's accomplishments in business, sociology, ethics and law. "For me,'' he says, "Osgoode Hall represents Canadian law.''

PAGE 8..The original IAMGOLD/ Nathanson/Handels Kredit Bank concession agreement

PAGE 7..THE HUMBLE INVOICES

PAGE 6..LETTER FROM MR. NATHANSON'S LAWYER & SNELL Sr CONCLUSION

PAGE 5..THE QUEEN. Criminal Case Review.

THE QUEEN on the application of MARTIN BOSTON and WARREN BOSTON v CRIMINAL CASES REVIEW COMMISSION [2006] EWHC 1966 (Admin)

This version of the judgment has been prepared by: Dr Robert N Moles and Bibi Sangha
Underlining where it occurs is for editorial emphasis]

List of Australian, UK and USA miscarriage of justice cases
Article on UK miscarriage of justice cases
Article on Australian miscarriage of justice cases
Article on USA miscarriage of justice cases

31 July 2006

Lord Justice May:

The Criminal Cases Review Commission

The Criminal Cases Review Commission is a body corporate established under section 8 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1995. Where a person has been convicted of an offence on indictment, the Commission has power to refer the conviction to the Court of Appeal Criminal Division. Such a reference is treated for all purposes as an appeal by the person against the conviction under section 1 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 (section 9). A reference may not be made unless an appeal against the conviction has been determined or leave to appeal against it has been refused (section 13(1)(c)). To make a reference, the Commission must consider that there is a real possibility that the conviction would not be upheld if a reference were made; and they must so consider because of an argument or evidence not previously raised or relied on in the proceedings (section 13(1)(a) and (b)). A reference by the Commission thus enables a convicted defendant to appeal against his conviction for a second time on the basis of new material. It is a safety valve for miscarriages of justice. If the Commission decides not to refer the conviction to the Court of Appeal Criminal Division, the convicted defendant cannot appeal again. He can, however, in an appropriate case apply for judicial review of the Commission's refusal to refer. The present proceedings are such an application on behalf of Martin and Warren Boston.

In Mills and Poole v CCRC [2001] EWHC Admin 1153, Lord Woolf LCJ explained the legal framework of the Commission. [See subsequent appeal Mills, Poole]. He said that the requirement that there exist evidence or argument not already raised in the proceedings is important, because it prevents a constitution of the Court of Appeal on a reference sitting as a Court of Appeal from an earlier decision made by a differently constituted Court of Appeal. The different material must justify a new decision. So far as the Commission is concerned, it must appear that a real possibility that the conviction would not be upheld exists as a result of new evidence or argument. The role of the court hearing applications for judicial review to challenge decisions of the Commission is very much a residual one. Lord Woolf referred to the judgment of Lord Bingham of Cornhill in R v CCRC ex parte Pearson [1999] 3 All ER 498, where Lord Bingham emphasised that the only function of the Divisional Court is to ensure that the Commission acts lawfully, not to substitute its own view for a reasonable and lawful decision of the Commission. It is not appropriate to subject the Commissions reasons to a rigorous audit. The real test must be to ask whether the reasons given by the Commission betray, to a significant extent, any of the defects which entitle a court of review to interfere. Lord Woolf said that the Divisional Court cannot act as an appellate body in relation to the Commission. The standards of judicial review do not require decisions of the Commission to be quashed whenever any flaw, however minor, is revealed by a process of rigorous audit. The Divisional Court should not fall into the trap of forming a view as to how the Court of Appeal would react and then concluding that that is what the Commission should necessarily have done. This would usurp the Commission's functions.

Facts

During the 1980s, Martin Boston, the first claimant, was a member of a consortium, which included a Canadian called Mark Nathanson, established to prospect for gold in the African Republic of Mali. Another member of the consortium was George Hervey-Bathurst. Martin Boston had been Hervey-Bathurst's solicitor, but he eventually became a member of the consortium in his own right. The consortium obtained a licence to mine for gold from the Government of Mali, and Martin Boston signed the concession on behalf of a Swiss bank, who were agents for the then members of the consortium. This consortium did not proceed. Nathanson eventually carried on by himself unknown to its other members. In 1987, Nathanson obtained another licence to prospect for gold in Mali through a company called Iamgold. There was some similarity between this concession and the previous one, which led some members of the first consortium to assert that they had an interest in the second. Nathanson did not inform the members of the first consortium that he had obtained another licence to prospect in an area which overlapped that of the original consortium, nor that he had used the same geologists' report, which Martin Boston (See James Snell’s letter from Mr. Boston demanding the report and maps). had paid for personally on behalf of the first consortium. Eventually the new venture was successful and began to generate significant earnings. In 1994, a share listing for Iamgold in Canada was being arranged. In 1990, Nathanson gave Hervey-Bathurst what he said was a goodwill gift of 500,000 shares in the new venture. Hervey-Bathurst came to believe that he was entitled to more shares because of his involvement in the first consortium. He pressed his claim with Nathanson until 1992, but then did not proceed with it. Hervey-Bathurst approached Martin Boston in 1994 and asked him to search his old client files to see whether they contained anything that he did not have. Martin Boston was to say in evidence at his trial that he regarded Hervey-Bathurst's claim for more shares as spurious. By September 1994, he said that Hervey-Bathurst had accepted that he had no claim and had abandoned it. But among the files which Martin Boston considered were documents which he believed entitled him, Martin Boston, to a substantial share in the new venture. He decided to approach Nathanson to press his own claim, but Nathanson initially avoided him.

On 21st September 1994, Nathanson telephoned Martin Boston from Iamgold's premises in Canada. He taped the call while two of his colleagues listened in. Martin Boston implied to Nathanson that there were documents in his files which may have supported Hervey-Bathurst's claim. Martin Boston was to say in evidence that this was untrue and a device to get Nathanson to talk to him about his own claim. After this telephone call, Nathanson consulted the police in Canada who, he said, advised him to record further meetings or calls with Martin Boston. Nathanson returned to the United Kingdom at the end of September 1994. On his return, he received a further unrelated claim from Hervey-Bathurst. He was also served with a writ from another person seeking a share of the proceeds in the new venture. All this could have affected Iamgold's flotation. Nathanson met Martin Boston and his brother Warren Boston, the second claimant, a retired stockbroker, at the Churchill Hotel in London on 3 October 1994. Nathanson secretly recorded this meeting. At the meeting, Martin Boston, supported by Warren Boston, in effect offered to destroy documents in his possession which may have supported a claim by Hervey-Bathurst. After the meeting, Nathanson contacted his solicitor who informed the police. Detective Superintendent Alec Edwards was allocated to the investigation.

There were further telephone calls and meetings after 3 October 1994, during which much of the original conversation was repeated. There was a final meeting at the Churchill Hotel on 2 November 1994, at which Martin Boston restated that he had a substantial claim against Nathanson. Warren Boston said that he and his brother wanted some shares and that Nathanson wanted to get both Martin Boston and Hervey-Bathurst off his back. He referred to Nathanson wanting papers which might exist. Nathanson complained that what Martin and Warren Boston were doing was blackmail and extortion. At the end of the meeting, Martin and Warren Boston were arrested. Martin and Warren Boston were charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Their defence at their trial in summary was that the first mention of destroying documents came from Nathanson; that they never intended to destroy the documents, but only went along with and pretended to agree with his suggestions. This was a negotiating strategy instigated by him and intended to frustrate a genuine claim against him. Nathanson's purpose was to entrap them and then have them arrested to frustrate Martin Boston's well founded claim which itself had the capacity of affecting the stock market flotation of Iamgold. There were in any event a number of copies of the documents in the hands of various people. On 3 March 1997, the claimants were convicted at the Central Criminal Court before Her Honour Judge Goddard QC and a jury of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Martin Boston was sentenced to 2 years' imprisonment; Warren Boston to one year's imprisonment. They appealed against conviction to the Court of Appeal Criminal Division. Grounds of appeal included that the judge had wrongly refused a submission on behalf of the defence that the prosecution evidence raised no case to answer; that Martin Boston had been unfairly prejudiced by the failure of the prosecution to advance through its own witnesses or in cross-examination substantive matters subsequently relied on; and that the judge was wrong in directing the jury in relation to the point at which the alleged conspiracy started. The appeal was dismissed on 18 July 1997.

Reference to the Commission

On 9 April 2002, the claimants made representations to the Criminal Cases Review Commission. There followed two years of correspondence and investigation. In April 2004, the Commission gave reasons for refusing to refer the claimants' cases to the Court of Appeal. The claimants began judicial review proceedings, which were subsequently withdrawn after the Commission gave further disclosure and agreed to consider further representations. Further representations were made, and in August 2005 the Commission gave the decision which is now under challenge not to refer the claimants' cases to the Court of Appeal. The main basis upon which the claimants sought reference to the Commission depended on the contents of an Investigation Report dated 31 January 2002 by Chief Superintendent Bamber into a complaint by the claimants against Detective Superintendent Alec Edwards. The claimants' case was and is that shortly after Edwards was assigned to their case, Nathanson entered into a corrupt relationship with Edwards by offering him a job with companies with which he was associated at a large and unjustifiable salary with other benefits. After he retired, and possibly before that, Edwards worked as Managing Director of two Nathanson companies at a salary of around £105,000 p.a. At the time of the trial, the defence knew that Edwards had gone to work for Nathanson after his retirement, but did not know of the antecedent relationship. Edwards retired in August 1995, well before the claimants' trial. He had been the officer initially in October 1994 assigned to investigate their case, but he relinquished that function by the time he retired, if not earlier. The Bamber Report concluded that there was a prima facie case of corruption. The Investigation Report records that Edwards made a statement

PAGE 4..IAMGOLD PRESS RELEASE...

PAGE 3..SWISS BANK LETTERS

PAGE 2..SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS POST 1

PAGE 1..The King Solomon's Mine story

"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it" - Plato

LETTER TO THE EMBASSY 2009

To: Mr. Mamadou Bandiougou Diawara, Ambassador Feb 23/2009
Government of Mali, Embassy
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada

From: James Westgate Snell

Dear Sir,
This letter is in reference to my meeting with your Honorary Consul, Mr. Jeffrey Gilmour in Calgary Alberta last week. I would like to thank you and Mr. Gilmour for allowing this meeting to take place. On the advice of Mr. Gilmour, I am requesting a meeting with you and your staff.
My discussion with Mr. Gilmour was in regards to IAMGOLD / Anglo Ashanti and the Sadiola deposit currently being mined North West of Bamako. (Kenieba District).
In 1981, My Father, James Clinton Snell, P.Eng, conducted an extensive geological research project in the above mentioned area with the assistance of geologists from the government of Mali. The result of this excellent research resulted in several gold mines now producing in your country. (IAMGOLD….Sadiola and Yatela). It was my Father’s hope that the massive potential of this mining district could generate enough wealth to sufficiently finance the operations of the government of Mali. In a letter to Mr. Robert N’Daw, Ministry of Development, Industry and Tourism, my father mentioned that there was sufficient gold deposition in this area to stabilize Mali’s currency and transform the economy.
Unfortunately, my Father died last year. Thankfully, I have inherited all of his geological research pertaining to gold deposition in Mali. Over the years, he compiled extensive gold exploration targets, along with maps and reports. Almost all of these targets have yet to be explored. I would like to discuss with you the possibility of continuing my father’s work in Mali, to assist not only your citizens, but also my family. I have several areas that I would like to begin working in.
In addition, I would also like to discuss with you the ownership of the Sadiola gold mine. As mentioned, my father found this world class deposit for IAMGOLD (Mr. Mark Nathanson). Tragically, he was never paid for his work. Engineering invoices have not been paid and royalty commitments have not been fulfilled. (Please see attached documents). My father was unable to defend himself legally since he was very ill.
As a registered Professional Engineer in the province of British Columbia Canada, my father still owns the rights to his intellectual property. Consequently, there is a strong possibility that since the Sadiola discovery was not paid for by IAMGOLD, the government of Mali could legally and ethically assume 100% control of this mineral concession and others. I would, of course, provide my services in this process. All of the documents pertaining to IAMGOLD fraudulently obtaining their concession are being reviewed by the Public Safety Minister’s office in Ottawa as well as in the media.
I look forward to speaking with you soon and possibly continuing this work.

Sincerely,
James Westgate Snell

THE STORY


This all began with a cartoon sketch of my father. His roommate at the University of Alaska (Fairbanks) drew it in the late 1950's. It depicts my father riding a donkey towards a gold mine. The caption reads, "There's a gold mine in the sky far away." In 1981, a picture of my father was taken, riding a donkey, near the site where he discovered one of the world's richest gold mines....according to a Jewish Rabbi, King Solomon's mines.

In 1981, my father, James Clinton Snell, P.Eng, geological engineer, (registered in the province of British Columbia, Canada) received a telephone phone call from a Canadian business man living in England (Mr. Mark Nathanson, IAMGOLD founder), requesting to examine and evaluate a mining concession in Mali, West Africa. My father hired an assistant and flew into Mali. After meeting with the country’s mining/geological officials, he was told that they did not know of the man who had sent him there and that the mining concession did not exist. Frustrated and disappointed, my father decided that since he was in Africa, he would travel to an area of his choosing and conduct some prospecting and geological research. Through his extensive geological experience, he focused in on the western portion of Mali. Thousands of small circular shafts were visible from the air. He flew back to his hotel in Bamako and began researching.

After extensive research was completed, he hired a truck and drove out to the area of interest. Most of the shafts he had seen from the air were less than 30 meters in depth. The purpose of these shafts was the historical mining of alluvial gold. The local artisan miners had been digging these shafts and processing the ore by hand for perhaps thousands of years.

In terms of economic geology, my father knew he was in the correct area for finding several massive lode gold deposits. After many weeks of intense field work and study, he had compiled enough research to conclude that one of the sources of the rich free gold being mined was a deposit at Sadiola Hill, (see accompanying maps). He also focused heavily on the Yatela area north of Sadiola. He was convinced that Sadiola had the potential to be developed into a modern mine and could generate substantial wealth for Mali. He met with Mr. Robert N’Daw, (Minister of Development, Industry and Tourism) (see letter). He advised Mr. N’Daw that the newly discovered area could be used to assist in developing Mali.

My father flew home from Mali penniless and very sick. Mr. Nathanson refused to pay my father’s engineering invoices (see documents). Since my father had disclosed to Mali government officials the potential massive economic wealth of western Mali and the location of Sadiola, Yatela and other potential gold deposits, Mr. Nathanson may have wanted to distance himself legally from my father. Even though no payment for geological services was rendered, Mr. Nathanson demanded my father’s geological report titled “The Geology and Geomorphology of Gold Deposition Kenieba District, Mali, West Africa including Ore Reserve Potential and a Feasibility Study for Mining and Processing,” with accompanying maps and tonnage calculations. There was a historic estimate made by my father of 625 tons gold at Sadiola (surface reserves). It took my father many months to complete this report.

Mr. Nathanson then requested that my father fly to meet with him and financiers Mr. Hans Willi (Handels Kredit Bank, AG Zurich), George Hervey-Bathurst and Mr. Martin Boston (lawyer) in London. Before the meeting took place, Mr. Nathanson and my father visited a Synagogue in downtown London. While in the building, the Rabbi took my father aside and told him, "Mr. Snell, do you realize what you have found?" " You have found King Solomon's mines."

During the meeting with Mr. Nathanson and his associates, my father was promised that he would be rewarded for his excellent work. One night, after the meeting, there was an attempt on my father’s life. Both he and the family think that this incident was no coincidence.

Years later, it was discovered that the original partnership tied to the exploration area encountered significant difficulties. Infighting with above-mentioned financiers resulted in Mr. Nathanson independently obtaining a concession using the original geological report provided by my father. Mr. Nathason’s lawyer, Mr. Martin Boston & Co., (see document) spent time in prison after Mr. Nathanson, through his solicitor, requested a sting operation with the help of Scotland Yard (see document). Prior to the sting, Mr. Nathanson arranged for Mr. Boston to potentially destroy pertinent information relating to his former partner’s claim to the project in Mali. (their conversation was recorded). Attached is a letter from Mr. Boston to my father requesting a signed copy of the report and maps, which contained the location of the Sadiola deposit. There was a CBC Fifth Estate documentary on Mr. Nathanson’s business history. (DVD can be ordered through the CBC). Mr. Nathanson, who was privy to the inner workings of the sting operation, left his microphone on after the fact and was heard saying, “I got em…..I got em!" Allegations were made by Mr. Boston that Mr. Nathanson was assisted inappropriately in the sting operation by Mr. Alec Edwards, a long time employee of Scotland Yard. Not surprisingly, Mr. Edwards was subsequently hired (at an inflated salary) by Mr. Nathanson’s company FIA Forensics.

http://www.fia-forensic.com/offices/nassau.html

http://www.fia-forensic.com/team/pedwards.html

My father returned from his England trip exhausted but still hopeful he had a deal with Mr. Nathanson on royalties from Sadiola. This never came. Years later, our family heard that a rich gold deposit had been discovered in Mali, at Sadiola Hill. They listed "Dr" Mark Nathanson as the discoverer and founder. Later, he was given an Honorary Doctorate of Law degree from York University in Ontario after his generous financial contribution to that school.

Mr. Nathanson formed an Ontario-based mining company. (IAMGOLD Corporation). He teamed up with Anglo-Ashanti to mine my father’s discovery. My father was never paid his modest invoices for the project or his promised 8% royalty / operating shares. IAMGOLD / Anglo Ashanti have apparently been mining one ton of gold per month since 1996 (see press release attached) at Sadiola. IAMGOLD also has a mine at Yatela on the advice of my father (outlined in his report). As one would expect, IAMGOLD and other mining companies have gone on to explore and make more discoveries on the Mali gold trend that my father initially discovered.

Mr. Nathanson now lives off shore. He was man of the year at the New York City Police Service after contributing to the NYPD Police Museum and forensics room. He and a former 30-year veteran of the RCMP (Rod Stamler, former deputy commissioner of the RCMP) founded an international forensics company based in the USA. (FIA) (sold to T&M Prtotection Services). Mr. Nathanson and Mr. Stamler also founded the Nathanson Research Center for the study of organized crime and corruption at York University in Ontario, Canada. The Osgoode Law School website states, “In 1988, he (Mr. Nathanson) got his big break with the discovery, and subsequent development, of a huge gold deposit in Western Mali."

http://osgoode.yorku.ca/media2.nsf/58912001c091cdc8852569300055bbf9/fdd290300d6113188525740b004ea42e!OpenDocument

Follow the link below to find out who is on Mr. Nathanson's team at Osgoode Law

http://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/NathansonBackUp/page4executivepersonnel.htm

Acting Solicitor General Herb Grey as well as other politicians, dignitaries and law enforcement officials, attended Mr. Nathanson's honorary PhD cerimony. The website states: "He saw first hand the debilitating effects on all sectors of society that result from widspread and unchecked organized crime activity and from corruption among public officials. He resolved to do something about it by creating the Nathanson Centre." Mr. Nathanson was quoted as saying, "I always wanted to be a policeman. But I didn't want to live on a policeman's salary. I had to make some money first."

Several years before my Father’s suicide, the Fifth Estate again came and visited him in Vancouver. They eventually aired an incriminating story on Mr. Nathanson. The Fifth Estate implied that Mr. Nathanson might have originally been involved in arms trading.

LEGAL ISSUES

Mr. James Clinton Snell, registered Professional Engineer in the province of British Columbia was never paid for his work for IAMGOLD and Mr. Nathanson. Attached invoices are still outstanding.

Mr. James Clinton Snell has never been acknowledged as the true discoverer of the Sadiola Hill deposit by Mr. Nathanson, IAMGOLD or the mining industry.

Mr. Nathanson and IAMGOLD have never honored the royalty owed to Mr. James Clinton Snell for the discovery of the Sadiola Hill deposit.

CONCLUSION

The geological research, reports and maps remain the property of James Clinton Snell, P.Eng., and his family. Selling of this data to third party geologists or mining companies is an offence against James Clinton Snell, P.Eng and the government of Mali.

Members of the IAMGOLD board of directors, including Mr. Nathanson, knowing the source of the discovery at Sadiola and the possible legal issues involved, fraudulently sold a large interest in the Sadiola deposit to Anglo Ashanti, exposing this company, shareholders and employees to significant liability and corporate instability.

IAMGOLD, having obtained/used the above mentioned geological data and property have exposed the general investing public to liability and potential loss.

The family of the late Mr. James Clinton Snell feels that justice needs to be served. Engineering invoices need to be paid with interest; a standard net smelter return needs to be honored by IAMGOLD. The true discoverer of this great deposit should be acknowledged and IAMGOLD and its management should be scrutinized for misrepresenting and misguiding investors, partners and the mining industry.

http://www.iamgold.com/op_mines_sadiola.htm