By RFIPalled on 26-05-2019Modified 26-05-2019 at 01:34

Last Sunday, the former government spokesman was briefly arrested for the alleged theft of an 87-carat diamond. But since then, Lambert Mende complained and his entourage ensures that the stone was not a diamond and that it was returned to its owners, availing itself of a report that would come from the Center of Expertise, evaluation and certification of precious mineral substances. Statements against which the Congolese civil society protests.

For Georges Kapiamba of the Congolese Association for Access to Justice (ACAJ), an investigation must be opened by the prosecution to unravel the truth of the false. But the report presented by the relatives of Lambert Mende does not convince him.

" With what is mentioned in this report, it just makes us believe that the real diamond has been replaced by a fake to allow some individuals to resell fraudulently and benefit, " says Me Georges Kapiamba.

#RDC: ACAJ is scandalized by the content of the minutes of the CEEC which notes that it has been deposited something other than the diamond of 87 carats. ACAJ calls the Attorney General at the Court of Cassation to INVESTIGATE the REAL DIAMOND DISAPPEARANCE and already arrest the suspects👇 pic.twitter.com/1twUNchl8a

Georges Kapiamba (@KapiambaGeorges) May 23, 2019

Last Sunday, the former government spokesman had indeed been briefly arrested, accused of stealing an 87-carat diamond from its real owners. But since, Lambert Mende, assuring that the stone was not a diamond, complained by availing himself of a report of the Center of expertise, evaluation and certification of precious mineral substances.

But on the side of the Center of expertise, evaluation and certification of precious mineral substances, it promises a communication next Wednesday to deliver the conclusions of the analysis of the stone litigious. This center is supposed to not only establish the type of stone in question, but also its value and report to the government on it.

The report brandished by the relatives of Lambert Mende would be at this stage neither an opinion authorized nor the result of the final analysis of this service of the State which depends on the presidency of the Republic.

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