Biggest African Bank Leak Shows Kabila Allies Looted Congo Funds

The largest leak of financial documents from Africa shows how a private bank in the Democratic Republic of Congo was used to channel at least $138 million of public funds to former President [Joseph Kabila]’s family and associates.

19 November 2021

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biggest-african-bank-leak-shows-120033479.html

Congo Offered Clinton $650,000 For 2 Pics and A Speech. But What Else in Return?

In 2012, the DR Congo offered $650,000 for two photos and a speech from President Bill Clinton. But was this all the country wanted; a photo and a chat?

DR Congo’s unusual offer to Clinton first came to light in a batch of Hillary Clinton’s emails

with the newly, controversial leaked documents, the ‘Panama papers’, the matter is now in the open with the documents showing the misdoings of DR Congo’s corrupt leaders.

luxurious for Clinton and depleting for DR Congo

What did [Joseph Kabila] of DR Congo want?

Forbes gives two possibilities of what the African nation needed from the US through Bill and Hillary Clinton.

One, Forbes elucidates that President Joseph Kabila sought US permission to ignore Congo’s constitution and stay in power beyond his two-term limit which comes to an end in 2016. Secondly, he wanted to shield his overseas assets from international investigators.

At the time, Hillary, in particular, could have helped in each situation if they wanted to. Forbes thinks that staying in power and keeping billions in sinister gains would undoubtedly be worth $650,000 if that was the deal that Kabila had in mind.

April 21st, 2016

https://www.africanexponent.com/post/congo-offered-clinton-650000-for-2-pics-and-a-speech-2879

[Kabila] then decided to abandon Shadary in favor of [Tshisekedi], the far weaker opposition candidate and the one whom Kabila believed from past dealings he could manage more easily. The outgoing president retained strong political assets. Through fraud and corruption, his political coalition had won control of two-thirds of the parliament, and his loyalists dominated the security forces.

Although USAID and the Treasury Department [strenuously objected to the State Department’s portrayal of anointing Tshisekedi as democratic], they never offered a full-fledged alternative.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/28/washington-congo-drc-stolen-election-biden-democracy-diplomacy-state-department/