Payoffs Through “Piggy Bank” for Ex-President’s Inner Circle Cleared Path for Multibillion-Dollar Mining
Project Meant to Fund National Infrastructure
Dirty Money Flowed Through International Banks
A massive deal between Chinese state-owned engineering firms and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to trade mineral wealth to fund urgently needed infrastructure projects concealed a multimillion-dollar embezzlement and bribery operation, according to a new investigative report by The Sentry.
Released today, The Sentry’s 90-page report “The Backchannel: State Capture and Bribery in Congo’s Deal of the Century” details how critical funds meant to rebuild roads, hospitals, and schools wound up in the pockets of former DRC President Joseph Kabila’s inner circle in a scheme orchestrated by David Du Wei, a middleman with high level connections in DRC and China.
Du Wei…