Billy Rautenbach

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Muller Conrad "Billy" Rautenbach is a Zimbabwean businessman, whose ventures have included companies involved in transport, cobalt and platinum mining, and biofuel production, primarily in Africa.^[1] The 2022 Data Leaks at Credit Suisse appeared to confirm allegations – for which he had faced American and European sanctions in earlier years^[2] that Rautenbach used the proceeds from a mining deal to support the ZANU-PF regime of dictator Robert Mugabe, during the latter's repressive 2008 election campaign in Zimbabwe.^[3] From 1999 to 2009, Rautenbach was a fugitive from fraud and corruption charges in South Africa.^[4]