Augustin Katumba Mwanke

This project is of special interest to Augustin Katumba Mwanke a former adviser to Kabila and now a senior member of the National Assembly (see Pointer)...

Anvil's position is protected because its contract was signed after 2003 and its board included for several years Katanga's former Governor presidential advisor Katumba Mwanke...

We hear Kabila's diplomatic and political counsellor Marcellin Cishambo and member of parliament and former advisor Augustin Katumba Mwanke persuaded two AMP candidates to withdraw in favour of She Okitundu - Senate President Pierre Marini Bodho plus financial court (Cour des Comptes) President Evariste Mabi Mulumba upsetting his under-represented Baluba people of Eastern Kasai...

One of them is Kabila’s advisor Augustin Katumba Mwanke...

The true test of the new government’s commitment to transparency will be the fate of President Joseph Kabila’s advisor Augustin Katumba Mwanke...

In 2003 former Presidency Minister Augustin Katumba Mwanke introduced Dan Gertler's Emaxon Finance to the people then in charge of MIBA...

Africa Confidential revealed exclusively that the report makes the most serious accusations against Kabila loyalist such as Katumba Mwanke Jean-Charles Okoto Didier Kazadi Nyembwe and General Denis Kalume Numbi (AC Vol 46 No 25)...

They include: ex-Presidency Minister Augustin Katumba Mwanke (linked to Miba's payments to European bank accounts and negotiation of the Emaxon deal); Miba's former Chairman Jean-Charles Okoto Lolakombe (illicit production and sale of diamonds and misappropriation of Miba resources); Former Director Agence Nationale de Renseignements (ANR intelligence agency) Didier Kazadi Nyembwe (illicit diamond production in Tshikapa close to the Angola border and refusal to respond to the commission); Former Planning Minister General Denis Kalume Numbi (involvement in the Sengamines deal and irregular bank transfers); Several Miba directors including former head Trudon Katende Muya; Belgium's Demimpex whose leading shareholder is Philippe de Moerloose was asked to account for a $750 000 payment it received from Miba but has failed to respond...

Kabila has removed several senior officials including Katumba Mwanke and Okoto who re-emerged in other political roles...

The National Security Advisor Samba Kaputo and another close ally of Kabila's Katumba Mwanke have been linked to Anvil Mining an Australian company that mines for copper and silver in Kilwa...

In June 2001 Augustin Katumba Mwanke head of Kabila's office instructed Okoto to pay $538 000 to another arms firm Thomas CZ at Zivnostenska Banka Prague...

One of MIBA's main creditors said that Augustine Katumba Mwanke Secretary General to the Kinshasa government had instructed MIBA's President Administrateur Delegué Gustave Luabeye Tshitala and MIBA's Director of General Services Michel Haubert to sign the Emaxon agreement explaining that the 'discount' on the shipments would fund the credit line offered by Emaxon...