KINSHASA, June 19 — DR Congo’s top court has intervened in an unprecedented corruption case involving a key ally of the president, less than a day before a lower court was due to issue a verdict, legal sources said today. A court in Kinshasa is scheduled tomorrow to issue its ruling in the...
Kamerhe emerged from DR Congo’s civil wars in the early 2000s to become a key figure in national politics. — AFP pic
Prosecutors are seeking 20-year terms against Kamerhe and 78-year-old Lebanese businessman Jammal Samih, accused of siphoning off more than US$50 million in a case deemed a litmus test of Tshisekedi’s anti-corruption drive. This is a term under the Napoleonic judicial system by which a defendant can seek to have a case suspended or annulled if judicial technicalities violate the constitution.
Proceedings have been televised live from a court set up in Kinshasa’s central prison, and the two key defendants, along with a presidential official who is the third accused, appeared in prison outfits.
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