With our correspondent in Kinshasa, Kamanda wa Kamanda Muzembe

Jean-Jacques Lumumba is being attacked for damaging imputations against the whistleblower. While Noël Tshiani, former World Bank official and politician, is being dragged before the courts for defamation and slanderous denunciations. Although apparently separate, these two complaints would be linked since they concern the same matter: dubious operations from which the private company Egal, close to the Kabila family, would have benefited.

43 million dollars not reimbursed, according to Lumumba

Some 43 million dollars from the Central Bank of Congo allegedly landed in the accounts of this firm at BGFI Bank, just four months after its establishment in 2013. This is what Jean-Jacques Lumumba, a former BGFI Bank employee, revealed in total. According to this whistleblower, these funds presented as investment provisions were never reimbursed.

For the lawyers of Egal SARL, these are "statements of a very serious nature, but oddly made with flippancy and especially without irrefutable proof". I am determined to see this through to the end, Jean-Jacques Lumumba replies for his part, saying he is also ready to file in court documents and other evidence that will make it possible to establish the truth.