Is it a new business coup by businessman and politician Moïse Katumbi in DRC?
While several French court rulings have dismissed Moïse Katumbi of all his requests, Mr Katumbi is trying to seize assets that he nevertheless sold several years ago, by invoking local court decisions that have never been returned. The intervention of armed forces in the Katanga region for the benefit of Moïse Katumbi constitutes a threat to the rule of law in the country.
NB Mining Africa is the victim of relentlessness and repeated intimidation, in total violation of the principles of law, with judgments whose publicity is not even guaranteed.
On Friday morning, September 25, 2020, at around 7:30 a.m., around fifty armed police officers entered by force the premises of the NB Mining Africa company in Lubumbashi (Katanga region, DRC), with members of the prosecution, to Manu militari expel the teams of the company NB Mining Africa.
The so-called legal bases of this action are unfounded and fallacious. NB Mining Africa is the victim of relentlessness and repeated intimidation, in total violation of the principles of law, with judgments whose publicity is not even guaranteed: the company has not been summoned to any court to assert its rights and company representatives were at no time kept informed. Everything takes place in complete illegality, in violation of the rights of the defense and by an open manipulation of the judicial apparatus.
It seems that the police are now heading towards Ruashi Mining to seize the machinery and equipment of the company.
Pascal Beveraggi, President of NB Mining Africa, said: “On behalf of someone who has claimed to want to occupy the highest office in the country, it is unworthy to use force in this way, using the judicial authorities of a region he once ruled. No elementary principle of law has been observed today. French justice has ruled on what was only a matter of French justice: Moïse Katumbi sold his company, wanting to reclaim it is purely and simply theft. “
