With our correspondent in Kinshasa, Kamanda wa Kamanda Musembe

Named in the major Congo Hold-up investigation, the companies Sud-Oil and Egal are of interest to the judicial authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo. An information file has just been opened concerning these two entities. It is a matter for justice to verify the statements contained in the investigation published by several international media outlets, including RFI, explains a senior magistrate.

And if the crimes denounced are proven, adds an expert, justice will find itself obliged to move to another step, that is to say to open a public prosecutor's register. The same expert adds that one should expect possible indictments with the possibility of detention of suspects, before the case is sent for hearing before the competent court.

Millions of Dollars in Public Funds Diverted

According to the authors of the Congo Hold-up investigation, the documents consulted reveal large-scale embezzlement of public funds. Among the presumed beneficiaries are named former president of the Republic, Joseph Kabila and his associates. Sud-Oil and its satellite companies received, according to the investigation, more than 90 million dollars in public funds. Meanwhile, still according to the authors of this same investigation, 43 million dollars from the Central Bank went, with the complicity of BGFI, to Egal, a meat and fish import company .

►Also read: the full Congo Hold-up investigation