Mining company, CEO seek Mozambique evidence from PwC

The Australian office of PricewaterhouseCoopers has been dragged into Rio Tinto’s Mozambique scandal, with the miner and two former executives seeking to use an international convention to compel the accounting firm to provide evidence to a US court.

Rio, its former chief executive Tom Albanese and its former chief financial officer Guy Elliott are seeking documents and testimony from PwC staff in the belief they are “central witnesses” to fraud charges levelled by the powerful US Securities Exchange Commission against the miner and the former executives.