The former Dr. Congo, Dr. Congo, was sentenced to arduous workers on charges of corruption

A former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was sentenced to a decade for a decade due to corruption.

Augustine condemned Matata Bonio with embezzlement of about 245 million dollars (182 million pounds) From the public funds by the Congolese Constitutional Court on Tuesday, along with Diojias Motumbo, the former governor of the Central Bank of the Congo.

Reuters’ Matata Agency’s lawyer told the ruling that the verdict was unfair and political motives.

Part of the funds have been taken from a major agricultural development aimed at addressing the country’s chronic food shortage.

Matata served the position of Prime Minister of the Republic of the Kendria

Before his excellent presidency, he was the Minister of Finance and received Praise be to the International Monetary Fund at that time To install the country’s economy.

Deogratias Mutombo, the former governor of the Central Bank, was sentenced to five years imprisonment of forced work in the same case and publicly commented on the verdict.

Forced and legal action in Dr. Congo when a court was imposed on him for a criminal punishment, According to the US State Department.

Both men were prevented from public service for a period of five years from the end of the conditions of forced work, according to reports of the news agency.

Matata, who carried out a campaign against the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Felix Chesikdi in the 2023 vote before they were left, denied the charges.

The case has spanned nearly four years since the country’s general inspector has told the theft from the Bokonda Longo Agricultural Park in 2020.

The park was one of the largest agricultural investments ever in Africa, according to Reuters, and the African Development Bank group expected to provide 22,000 jobs.

This completion was supposed to provide 28 million people who are currently facing acute food insecurity in Dr. Congo, with which the conflict has been afflicted for more than 30 years, since the 1994 Rwandan genocide.