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Former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was sentenced to forced work for a decade for corruption.
Augustine Matata Pony was found guilty of theft of about $ 245 million (£ 182 million) State Funds of the Constitutional Court of Congolese on Tuesday, as well as Deogratias Mutombo, former Governor of the Central Bank of Doctor Congo.
Matata’s lawyer told Reuters that the ruling was unfair and politically motivated.
Some of the funds were taken from the major development of agriculture designed to solve the chronic lack of food in the country.
Matata served as Prime Minister DRC from 2012 to 2016 and is now headed by the country’s leadership and the LGD management (LGD).
To the prime minister he was minister of finance and received At the time the praise of the International Monetary Fund to stabilize the country’s economy.
Mutaba’s dear, a former Central Bank governor, was also sentenced to five years of forced labor in the same case and did not commented publicly in the resolution.
Forced labor legitimate from Dr. Congo, if provided by the court for criminal punishment, According to the US State Department.
Both men have been banned from public service for five years since the end of their forced labor conditions, AFP reports.
Matata, who campaigned against DRC President Felix Tshasecki voting in 2023 before refusing, invariably denied the allegations.
The case stretched for almost four years, as the General Inspector for Finance in the country reported the theft from the Bukanga-Lonzo Agro-Park in 2020.
The park was one of the largest agricultural investments in Africa, according to Reuters, and the African Bank Development Group, which expected to provide 22,000 jobs.
It was intended to ensure the return of 28 million people who are currently faced with acute food security at Dr. Congo, which has been suffered by a conflict over 30 years since the 1994 Rwanda genocide.
