DRC: authorities announce the dismantling of a spy network in Kinshasa

A member of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

(illustration) MONUSCO/Abel Kavanagh

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On Tuesday, December 27, the Congolese authorities presented on television four alleged spies, including two Rwandans, who were operating in Kinshasa. 

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With our correspondent in Kinshasa,

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during the Tuesday, December 27 briefing, the Congolese government revealed on television the arrest of four alleged spies posted in Kinshasa.

Two of them are Rwandan.

The latter, including a soldier, acted under the cover of a development

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They fell into the net of the Congolese security services with two other accomplices, including a colonel from the Congolese army.

#RDC🇨🇩___ A case of espionage of the Rwandan services operating in Kinshasa detected and dismantled by the security services, according to the Congolese authorities who presented, this evening, these 4 alleged spies, two of whom act under the cover of an NGO development (AHDO).

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— Pascal Mulegwa (@pascal_mulegwa) December 27, 2022

Several infiltrated circles 

According to the authorities, these spies had not only infiltrated some army officers but also political figures, economic operators and members of civil society.

Kinshasa affirms that the encrypted telephone of the Rwandan soldier could have been exploited by the investigators.

The object revealed, according to the authorities, that the latter had access to the various strategic sites of the capital Kinshasa, in complicity with certain generals of the Congolese army.

For the government, these spies had acquired a significant land holding in the perimeter of the international airport of Ndjili in Kinshasa and the military base of Kibomango, which, according to him, would have allowed the preparation of an attack.

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