Mutanda Mining’s payment of USD 100 million in 2015 was a “regular operation”, according to a source at the Central Bank | DRC
“No, the governor is in his office. He did not show up when he was arrested. For Déogratias Mutombo, it is a regular operation, that is to say that the miner had paid the 100 million USD to two accounts: 80 million $ to the national account of the BCC and 20 million to the account of its international reserves in Swiss. The money was brought back to Congo and was used, there are traces at the BCC,” said this source.
This case on the 100 million USD of Mutanda Mining was revealed by the Principal Advisor to the Head of State in charge of the College of Economy and Finance, Marcellin Bilomba, during a broadcast on the Congolese radio Top Congo FM on Saturday 25 July. According to this Advisor, Mutanda Mining had paid 100 million USD as an advance on tax but never received a receipt duly established by a financial authority.
A week ago, the former director general of the General Directorate of Taxes (DGI), Dieudonné Lokadi , was the first to be arrested by the Judicial Prosecutor’s Office for this case of the collection of 100 million USD Mutanda Mining. He spent 48 hours in police custody at the Inspectorate of the Judicial Police of Public Prosecutions before being released.
Very often, the government, in agreement with the economic operators, requests payment before the due date of taxes in order to meet its public expenditure. This was the case with this payment in 2015 from Mutanda Mining.
