Reversal in the so-called looted building case in the former Katanga province. Emmanuel Stoupis, who accused Moïse Katumbi and Jean-Claude Muyambo five years ago of stealing two buildings, was arrested on Tuesday, November 24 in Kinshasa following a complaint from the bar’s president Jean-Claude Muyambo. The latter accuses the Greek citizen of using forgery, complicity in torture and fraud.
as reported from Kinshasa, Kamanda wa Kamanda Muzembe
In 2015, Emmanuel Stoupis filed a complaint against the two politicians who had violated the Kabila regime. According to Stoupis, the former president of Lubumbashi Jean-Claude Muyambo and the ex-governor of Katanga Moïse Katumbi Chapwe would have stolen two buildings from him which he would have acquired as an inheritance. Then followed trials qualified as a politician of the two accused, a trial that had resulted in their conviction.
Jean-Claude Muyambo spent almost four years in prison. Katumbi, who was ill, had been given permission by the judicial authorities to go for treatment abroad where he stayed until 2019, so after the election. The authorities at the time had prevented his return. They had also denied him his Congolese nationality.
Today, the two men want to restore the truth. Following Muyambo, Moïse Katumbi also announces that his lawyers are preparing to take legal action. The ex-governor adds that his elder Raphaël Katebe Katoto, owner of this day of one of the buildings in question, will do the same. Together with RFI, Moïse Katumbi and Jean-Claude Muyambo claim to have been victims of an assembly of a former intelligence chief for the Kabila regime.
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