LU POUR VOUS (sans commentaire) Like Africa’s worst, Kabila seems to have amassed some $15 billion over the past decade in offshore banks in the British Virgin Islands and elsewhere, according to accounts in French and German-language media outlets. By contrast, Mobutu Sese Seko, a dictator who ruled Congo for 32 years, piled up $5 billion. (A European court recently let Mobutu’s heirs keep their nest egg, finding that the statute of limitations of colossal theft had run out.) Kabila controls lucrative offshore drilling and fishing concessions and access to some of richest onshore mineral claims in the world. Like his predecessor, Kabila has turned kleptocracy into a family affair, according to Western expatriates and African experts. His brother, Soulemane Kabila, is believed to have diverted some $300 million from the DRC’s treasury. Meanwhile, exporters, who are legally entitled to a rebate on the value-added tax, say that they have been denied millions in refunds—discouraging foreign investors. - Now Kabila seems to want to defy the Congo constitution’s term limits and stay in power beyond 2016. President for life. Just like the bloodstained men that have ruled Congo since its independence from Belgium in 1960. LIRE LA SUITE: eacvision/congo-2/joseph-kabila-seems-to-have-amassed-some-15-billion-over-the-past-decade/
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 04:54:52 +0000