Congo Hold-up: Behind the Scenes of State Looting
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Congo Hold-up, a survey of 19 media and five NGOs.
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By: Clémentine Pawlotsky
Back on the Congo Hold-up, this vast scandal of embezzlement of public funds which splashes on Joseph Kabila, former president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and his clan.
The Congo Hold-up is a collaborative investigation carried out by 19 media including RFI and 5 specialized NGOs, associated with the European consortium EIC.
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It was brought to a successful conclusion thanks to the leak of 3.5 million bank documents.
It tells us about considerable embezzlement of public funds: 138 million dollars stolen between 2013 and 2018. How were these massive embezzlements made possible?
What are the cogs of this state plunder?
Decryption with:
Sonia Rolley
, journalist in the Africa service of RFI, specialist in the DRC and who took part in the survey.
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