DRC’s mining police seize a ton of copper cathode sheets
Nearly a ton of copper cathode sheets intercepted last week are still lying around in the mining police facilities in Lubumbashi. Until Wednesday, February 9, the place of origin and its owner are still not known. The mining police are continuing investigations and warning those who allow themselves to sabotage the national economy through theft and other fraudulent outflows of minerals.
According to the mining police, the vehicle transporting these minerals came from the Likasi road. The security services having found that the vehicle was carrying heavy things wanted to know more. They asked the driver to stop, but he did not comply. He preferred to drive fast by taking detours.
“Seeing himself slip away, he and another person who was on board abandoned the vehicle in the Hewa Bora district in the Annex commune before disappearing into the wild”, indicates the police.
Arrived on the spot, these security services found that this Regus brand vehicle was carrying around a ton of copper cathode sheets. The vehicle has since been returned to the mining police facilities and no one has passed by to claim these already processed minerals.
When she went from Radio Okapi to the mines police, she had met some Chinese subjects there who had come to see if these cathode sheets had come out of their factories. After checking, there was nothing.
On this occasion, the mining police asks to always respect the procedure in the exploitation and export of minerals while avoiding sabotage of the national economy by fraudulent exits and other thefts of minerals belonging to companies. mining.
