BGFIBank was called into question by the investigation into embezzlement of public funds carried out by a media consortium including RFI. The purpose of the meeting of this Thursday, November 25, 2021 was to discuss the possible reimbursement by this bank of money irregularly obtained from the Public Treasury. The meeting would have gone smoothly and discussions are expected to continue over a few days.
With our correspondent in Kinshasa, Kamanda Wa Kamanda
” The meeting has taken place, the work will continue, perhaps for a few days, and we will meet for the conclusions. “Under the seal of anonymity, one of the participants in this consultation did not want to say more. He insisted on the objective of this meeting which was well defined in the invitation letter launched by the General Inspectorate of Finance, namely to agree on the practical modalities of the reimbursement of the 43 million dollars taken by the BGFI in the account of the Central Bank of Congo.
Long before this meeting, the leaders of the BGFI were somewhat conciliatory. In a press release, the BGFI group on Wednesday condemned ” with the utmost firmness the unethical and unethical acts that may have been committed in the past ”Within its subsidiary in the DRC and of which its employees could possibly have been perpetrators or accomplices to varying degrees.
The bank also pledged its full cooperation with the state authorities in charge of this file, that is to say the Ministry of Finance, the general prosecutor’s office, the General Inspectorate of Finance and the Central Bank of Congo.
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