DRC: search of ex-intelligence chief Kalev Mutond, wanted by justice
The Congolese security forces are looking for the former head of the ANR (illustrative image).
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Justice and law enforcement are looking for Kalev Mutond, the former head of the National Intelligence Agency (ANR) targeted by a dozen complaints from former detainees.
Kalev Mutond was not at home on Thursday March 11 when the police raided his residence in Ngaliema commune.
The former strongman under the presidency of Joseph Kabila had not honored the first two summons that had been sent to him by the general prosecutor at the Kinshasa-Gombe Court of Appeal.
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Pascal Mulegwa
The search notice was issued by the prosecutor general of Kinshasa - Gombe in the early afternoon.
The latter took the case in hand after Kalev Mutond challenged magistrate Robert Kumbu who was investigating the case.
The former super cop under United States sanctions suspected this magistrate of wanting to settle scores against a background of personal enmity and
accused him of persistence
.
It is the same magistrate who issued the arrest warrant, accompanied by another search warrant, on Wednesday.
According to Kalev Mutond, reached by phone, a dozen police officers raided his house around 5 a.m. in his absence.
Private office, vehicles and other rooms in the house were searched in the presence of his daughter, reports the one whom the prosecution now considers a fugitive.
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We do not know where Kalev Mutond would have entrenched himself, also under US sanctions since December 2016. His relatives assure that he is still in the capital, but does not want to be the victim of a "
conspiracy
".
The former head of intelligence has estimated for several days that the procedures concerning him are not being followed.
He ensures that his successor at the head of the ANR responded with a negative opinion to the prosecutor's request to initiate legal proceedings against him on the basis of facts committed in the exercise of his functions.
The charges contained in the complaints against him are heavy: the former head of the National Intelligence Agency is suspected of arbitrary arrests, physical and moral torture, inhuman and degrading treatment and attempted assassination.
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