just a quick one:
DRC: Vidiye Tshimanga acquitted (lawyer)
Friday, December 23, 2022 - 1:40 p.m.
Vidiye Tshimanga. Ph. Third Party Rights.
The Kinshasa/Gombe Peace Court acquitted the former special adviser to Félix Tshisekedi in strategic matters, vidiye Tshimanga. The information is confirmed to ACTUALITE.CD by his master lawyer Clément Ilunga. The judgment was rendered this Friday, December 23, 2022.
The public prosecutor had requested 3 years of penal servitude against Vidiye Tshimanga. The latter was prosecuted for influence peddling, corruption and insulting the Head of State, following a video showing him visibly negotiating income with alleged investors by promising them his involvement in obtaining the contract. The lawyers of Vidiye Tshimanga considering that the acts reproached to their client being committed abroad, they had raised the denial of jurisdiction of the court seized. The denial of jurisdiction is an exception raised by the parties to demonstrate that the court seised has no material, territorial or personal jurisdiction to hear the case.
As a reminder, Vidiye Tshimanga was placed in pre-trial detention on September 21 by the General Prosecutor's Office at the Kinshasa/Gombe Court of Appeal before being granted provisional release a few days later.
Ivan Kasongo

FFS
Le Tribunal de paix de Kinshasa/Gombe a acquitté l'ancien conseiller spécial de Félix Tshisekedi en matière stratégique, vidiye Tshimanga. L'information est confirmée à ACTUALITE.CD par son avocat maîtres ClÉment Ilunga.
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