Beya had managed relations with former President Joseph Kabila and his family and the president's move carries risks...

Tshisekedi has been treading cautiously in his dealings with ex-President Joseph Kabila whose profile has diminished over the past year...

He was deputy head of President Mobutu's intelligence service but when that regime was overthrown by forces under Joseph Kabila's father Laurent-Désiré Kabila in 1997 Beya seamlessly transitioned to become chief of staff to the head of the newly-created ANR...

The deal was won through Garsu Pasaulis' parent company Semlex a Belgian outfit that recently lost its contract to provide identity documents in Congo-Kinshasa after claims that one-third of the US$185 fee for passports went to a company owned by a relative of former president Joseph Kabila according to a 2018 Reuters news agency report...

The Front Commun pour le Congo coalition loyal to former President Joseph Kabila is weak and has no obvious candidate for the 2023 presidential elections...

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...