By RFPosted on 01-09-2019Modified on 01-09-2019 at 03:54

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, two inspectors from the Inspectorate General of Finance say they were arrested this Saturday, August 31. One was detained for a few hours by the police before being released. The other, the Inspector General himself, said he had been interviewed by the services of the Special Adviser on Security, François Beya.

Inspector General Victor Batubenga says he was threatened. He said he was arrested yesterday morning at the headquarters of the Inspectorate General of Finance. Police arrived on four jeeps. Law enforcement officials, he said, molested some agents before taking him and a field inspector. " They have sown panic, it never happened, " he moves on the phone.

The Inspector General of Finance said he was then placed on guard at the office of the Special Adviser for Security with the Presidency, François Beya. In the interview he gave to RFI, he claims that one of the Special Advisor's aides allegedly made threats against him and his family.

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An inconvenient control?

In particular, two investigations: one in fifteen million due to oil companies requisitioned by the chief of staff of the President, Vital Kamerhe; the other, more recent, on all expenditures of the Treasury since the inauguration of the new head of state Felix Tshisekedi.

Regarding the latter, it is more precisely the control he has conducted at the request of the National Intelligence Agency (ANR) on disbursements made since the investiture of Felix Tshisekedi. According to the Inspector General of Finance, the Special Adviser to the Head of State had told him that he did not have to carry out such a check because the ANR did not have the power to request it. " It seems that I am disturbing people with this control, " worries Victor Batubenga who now intends to turn to President Tshisekedi because his service depends directly on the head of state. But, he analyzes, " all this happened while he was away ." He promises that " upon his return " (from Japan), he will seek to meet him.

In the entourage of the new president who left Japan yesterday for Kinshasa, it was still ensured that the letter of the chief of staff Vital Kamerhe intimating the order to the IGF to stop his investigations was a fake but it was said to wait for the return in the capital before commenting on the auditions.

The police recognize that they have arrested the other inspector. According to General Sylvano Kasongo, chief of police in Kinshasa, his hearing revolved around the confidentiality of the investigations that are currently being conducted by the General Inspectorate of Finance.

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