Romania hits Canadian firm with $9m 'retaliatory' tax bill over gold mine
by Kit Gillet in Bucharest from on (#2WE47)
Move comes after Gabriel Resources sues government for $4.4bn over failed bid to establish goldmine in Apuseni mountains
Romania has served a Canadian mining company with a $8.6m back taxes bill days after the company filed a $4.4bn compensation claim over a stalled project in the country. Gabriel Resources tried for more than 18 years to get necessary permits for an opencast mine to extract Europe's largest gold deposits from beneath the village of RoETMia MontanAf in the Apuseni mountains.
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