CCC received over $55 million from Chinese interests and transferred at least $31 million of this to companies and individuals linked to then-President Joseph Kabila according to The Backchannel a new report by Washington DC-based anti-corruption group The Sentry...

After refusing to respond for years to accusations of grand corruption in its operations in Congo-Kinshasa central Africa's biggest bank has come as close as its lawyers would allow to admitting grand corruption in its Congo-Kinshasa operations during the presidency of Joseph Kabila (AC 19/11/21 Exposed – the cost of Kabila's state capture)...

6m from what PPLAAF has described as 'a shell company that directed bribes to people and companies linked to Joseph Kabila'...

Using evidence from the biggest ever leak of financial documents in Africa an international investigative journalism consortium has tracked the main sources of the staggering wealth reckoned to run into billions of dollars of former President Joseph Kabila and his family...

Selemani is according to researcher Eric Kennes's 2003 Biographical Essay on Laurent-Désiré Kabila the adopted brother of Joseph Kabila...

Selemani and Joseph Kabila were brought up together in Tanzania by one of the wives of Adrien Kanambe a guerrilla comrade of Laurent-Désiré Kabila who led the forces that overthrew Mobutu and preceded Joseph Kabila as president (AC Vol 38 No 7 Kabila's long march)...

This has not only been the case in the Congo-Kinshasa – where former President Joseph Kabila's adopted brother was CEO and his sister was a 40% shareholder – but it's evident in Congo-B where intelligence chief Jean-Dominique Okemba is chairman...

Etienne Tshisekedi died in February 2017 and President Joseph Kabila whose five-year presidential mandate had expired in 2016 sought to exploit his death to weaken the UDPS and Kasaïan opposition in general (AC Vol 58 No 4 Leader's demise imperils deal)...

Beya took charge of the DGM when Joseph Kabila became president in 2001...

The most well-known of these middlemen is Dan Gertler the businessman who became former President Joseph Kabila's go-to man for oil and mining deals...

Gertler has long been accused of paying bribes to ex-President Joseph Kabila and other Congolese politicians to secure cut-price mining rights but the amounts disclosed in a recent Swiss court case far exceed previous estimates...

Thanks to his closeness to former President Joseph Kabila he became a gatekeeper to Congo-K's copper and cobalt mines its most important source of national wealth...

President Félix Tshisekedi who is fighting for power with ex-President Joseph Kabila strikes an ambiguous attitude towards Gertler a key ally of the former president (AC Vol 62 No 3 Félix tips the scales)...