On October 2, Canadian mining company Kinross Gold Corp. announced that the SEC and DOJ are investigating potentially improper payments to government officials in West Africa. The company’s announcement states that it received subpoenas from the SEC in 2014 and 2015, and a request for information from the DOJ in December 2014. The subpoenas came after the company launched an internal investigation in August 2013 to investigate a whistleblower complaint alleging improper payments to government officials and internal control deficiencies in the company’s West African mining operations.