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cruiser51
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#Urgent : 300kg of gold at 120 million US dollars, exported to Hong Kong by Mrs. Hamida Shatur, wife of
@VitalKamerhe1
. Huff! we're still far I see... and if that's true? my God !!! File to follow.The docket says 3000 kg
Who is Vital Kamerhe??
By Africanews
Last updated: 24/06 - 09:30
Vital Kamerhe, DRC's president Tshisekedi's former chief of staff has won his battle. Sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2020 for embezzling around 50 million dollars, the politician was totally cleared on appeal on Thursday. His co-accused, Lebanese businessman Sanoh Jammal was also acquitted.
The Kinshasa-Gombe Court of Appeal said lack of evidence was the reason for its decision.
Since 2020 Kamerhe was accused of misappropriating an envelope allocated to the construction of houses for the military and police, which was part of a programme implemented by President Tshisekedi. Kamerhe was the right-hand man of Félix Tshisekedi between 2018 and 2019. His 20 year sentence was reduced to 13 years in prison on appeal in June 2021. In December 2021, he was granted provisional release.
Following this verdict, his politcal party the Union for the Congolese Nation (UNC) organised gatherings in Bukavu, his stronghold in the East.
The 63 year-old is now free to run in DRC's upcoming 2023 elections.
Is this part of the election games, or steal as much as you can before FT and Mr Trophy winner steps in?
But guess what?
How are you gonna get $120 million in gold bullion from Hong Kong?
Does everybody think it's ok just to steal?
cruiser51
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#Urgent : 300kg of gold at 120 million US dollars, exported to Hong Kong by Mrs. Hamida Shatur, wife of
@VitalKamerhe1
The docket says 3000 kg
Who is Vital Kamerhe??
By Africanews
Last updated: 24/06 - 09:30
Vital Kamerhe, DRC's president Tshisekedi's former chief of staff has won his battle. Sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2020 for embezzling around 50 million dollars, the politician was totally cleared on appeal on Thursday. His co-accused, Lebanese businessman Sanoh Jammal was also acquitted.
The Kinshasa-Gombe Court of Appeal said lack of evidence was the reason for its decision.
Since 2020 Kamerhe was accused of misappropriating an envelope allocated to the construction of houses for the military and police, which was part of a programme implemented by President Tshisekedi. Kamerhe was the right-hand man of Félix Tshisekedi between 2018 and 2019. His 20 year sentence was reduced to 13 years in prison on appeal in June 2021. In December 2021, he was granted provisional release.
Following this verdict, his politcal party the Union for the Congolese Nation (UNC) organised gatherings in Bukavu, his stronghold in the East.
The 63 year-old is now free to run in DRC's upcoming 2023 elections.
Is this part of the election games, or steal as much as you can before FT and Mr Trophy winner steps in?
But guess what?
How are you gonna get $120 million in gold bullion from Hong Kong?
Does everybody think it's ok just to steal?
And there is more....
BOUNCING BACK
DRC: Vital Kamerhe makes his comeback in the East
By Stanis Bujakera TshiamalaPosted on Wednesday, 14 September 2022 11:50
For the first time since his acquittal, Vital Kamerhe, Félix Tshisekedi’s former cabinet director, is visiting eastern DRC, which is plagued by violent conflict. The Bukavu native's trip is also very political.
Vital Kamerhe arrived in Goma on 12 September with a smile on his face. At around 4 pm local time, the national airline’s plane landed at the airport of the capital of the province of North Kivu, where a crowd was waiting for him.
READ MORE DRC: Vital Kamerhe forgives President Félix Tshisekedi, declares his loyalty
He was accompanied by his closest allies, including Billy Kambale, the secretary-general of his party, the Union pour la Nation Congolaise (UNC), Michel Moto, his assistant and communications adviser, Jean-Baudoin Mayo Mambeke, and the deputy justice minister, Amato Bayubasire. His wife, Hamida Chatur, his mother, his sister Chantal and his son Didier was also at his side.
Translation: #DRC. @VitalKamerhe1 and the crowd in #Goma
As safe as it is political
Kamerhe was acquitted in June after being sentenced two years earlier to 20 years in prison – a sentence reduced on appeal to 13 years – and barred for 10 years from running for office for corruption and embezzling funds allocated to the 100-day presidential programme. The native of Bukavu, South Kivu, now wants to turn the page on this judicial saga that has kept him in prison and the courts for two years.Through this so-called “peace tour”, which, in its first stage, will take Felix Tshisekedi’s former cabinet director to the provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Maniema, Kamerhe intends to contribute to efforts to restore the state’s authority in this part of the country where armed groups are the law. The M23’s resurgence last November has only increased tensions. He also plans to visit Rutshuru, a territory in North Kivu province where the town of Bunagana has been occupied for three months by fighters from this rebel movement.
“For the return of peace to our country, I just want to show that in the old days we had greater difficulties than those we have now and that we overcame them (…) We said we wanted the territory of Congo’s sovereignty to be respected,” Kamerhe told supporters.
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“I am not here to play politics, I will not say one word about politics. I can’t do politics when the tears and blood of our compatriots are flowing,” he continued.
The position of prime minister?
This tour in the east – the first since Kamerhe’s release – seems to be political. Since his acquittal, considered by many observers as a gesture of reconciliation by Tshisekedi, the president’s former director of the cabinet has been discussing his future role with the head of state.READ MORE DRC: Under what conditions has Vital Kamerhe been released?
According to some sources, the position of prime minister could be an option. “The president wants to keep [Jean-Michel] Sama Lukonde Kyenge as head of government, but he is not ruling out the possibility of giving the post to Vital Kamerhe. All options are on the table,” says a person close to the head of state. If Kamerhe succeeds in attracting crowds wherever he goes, Tshisekedi will not be able to do without him. This is a strategic message, one that comes as the president prepares to seek re-election in December 2023.
Looks like a great team Felix!!
Ffs, Felix!!
*To add, If anyone missed it (Apologies if already Posted ) It's been a long Day / Week / Month / Year and i'm
United Nations: Félix Tshisekedi pleads for climate justice
"To date, the impact of climate change on low-income economies is well established. Low emitters of greenhouse gases on a global scale, however, these economies, including the DRC, pay the heaviest price".
This is in summary, the plea of President Félix Tshisekedi before the world political authorities gathered in New York, in the United States, this Tuesday, September 20, during his speech at the 77th General Assembly of the United Nations.
Emphasizing the need to translate into action the promises made to African countries at the various climate conferences, Felix Tshisekedi recalled "that it was time to put an end to the selective execution of commitments made by polluters, but also to compensate, in the name of climate justice, the efforts made by less polluting countries, particularly those in Africa, to preserve the environment in the interest of the whole planet”.
On the subject of the energy transition, the Congolese President did not hesitate to recall the strategic double hat of the DRC with regard to its assets in biodiversity and its key mineral resources, including cobalt and lithium.
“As for the energy transition, Africa has enough renewable energy sources and raw materials that can contribute to the mobilization of credible alternatives to the dual energy and ecological crisis.
From this point of view, it is important to note that the Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the main producers of strategic ore essential to the energy transition and the decarbonization of the transport sector, including in particular Cobalt, Lithium, Nickel as well as than manganese.
My country has set itself the goal of producing the said minerals properly for this purpose,” he said.
For Felix Tshisekedi, harnessing the energy and environmental potential of the DRC in the fight against climate change and the energy transition goes hand in hand with lasting peace in the east of the country.
"The time has come to break forever the infernal cycle of violence in eastern DRC to stabilize the Great Lakes region in order to derive the greatest benefit from its economic potential as well as its rich biodiversity to save the humanity in the face of climate change. he said.
It should be recalled that in view of the difficulties experienced by developing countries, including African countries, in the fight against climate change and the efforts they must make to green their economies, the international community had promised financial assistance up to 100 billion USD per year.
To date, only 20 billion has been provided to Africa between 2016 and 2019.
mediacongo
" FELIX PLEADS FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE "
If you plea more for AVZ justice, then your climate justice takes care of its self Felix......
obe wan
Regular
Geez wombat, you do wind your self right up. Doc...’0ne for the road’ / carrier lost...nope not at all, $AVZ comfortable with where ever they drop a rig
This kind of situation, alongside ongoing alleged connections to others in his government accused of embezzlement, makes one seriously question how deep FTs focus on his anti-corruption stance truly runs. It seems, as ever, that Politics may win out. With a seemingly close running election nearing in, does it seem likely that The President will oust the Director of CAMI, for instance, given the splashback from his extensive patronage network this could engender? I think not. Could he continue to apply the brakes, if indeed that's where the primary holdup lies?And there is more....
BOUNCING BACK
DRC: Vital Kamerhe makes his comeback in the East
By Stanis Bujakera Tshiamala
Posted on Wednesday, 14 September 2022 11:50
Vital Kamerhe and his wife, Hamida Shatur Kamerhe, on their arrival in Goma. © UNC.
For the first time since his acquittal, Vital Kamerhe, Félix Tshisekedi’s former cabinet director, is visiting eastern DRC, which is plagued by violent conflict. The Bukavu native's trip is also very political.
Vital Kamerhe arrived in Goma on 12 September with a smile on his face. At around 4 pm local time, the national airline’s plane landed at the airport of the capital of the province of North Kivu, where a crowd was waiting for him.
READ MORE DRC: Vital Kamerhe forgives President Félix Tshisekedi, declares his loyalty
He was accompanied by his closest allies, including Billy Kambale, the secretary-general of his party, the Union pour la Nation Congolaise (UNC), Michel Moto, his assistant and communications adviser, Jean-Baudoin Mayo Mambeke, and the deputy justice minister, Amato Bayubasire. His wife, Hamida Chatur, his mother, his sister Chantal and his son Didier was also at his side.
Translation: #DRC. @VitalKamerhe1 and the crowd in #Goma
As safe as it is political
Kamerhe was acquitted in June after being sentenced two years earlier to 20 years in prison – a sentence reduced on appeal to 13 years – and barred for 10 years from running for office for corruption and embezzling funds allocated to the 100-day presidential programme. The native of Bukavu, South Kivu, now wants to turn the page on this judicial saga that has kept him in prison and the courts for two years.
Through this so-called “peace tour”, which, in its first stage, will take Felix Tshisekedi’s former cabinet director to the provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Maniema, Kamerhe intends to contribute to efforts to restore the state’s authority in this part of the country where armed groups are the law. The M23’s resurgence last November has only increased tensions. He also plans to visit Rutshuru, a territory in North Kivu province where the town of Bunagana has been occupied for three months by fighters from this rebel movement.
“For the return of peace to our country, I just want to show that in the old days we had greater difficulties than those we have now and that we overcame them (…) We said we wanted the territory of Congo’s sovereignty to be respected,” Kamerhe told supporters.
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“I am not here to play politics, I will not say one word about politics. I can’t do politics when the tears and blood of our compatriots are flowing,” he continued.
The position of prime minister?
This tour in the east – the first since Kamerhe’s release – seems to be political. Since his acquittal, considered by many observers as a gesture of reconciliation by Tshisekedi, the president’s former director of the cabinet has been discussing his future role with the head of state.
READ MORE DRC: Under what conditions has Vital Kamerhe been released?
According to some sources, the position of prime minister could be an option. “The president wants to keep [Jean-Michel] Sama Lukonde Kyenge as head of government, but he is not ruling out the possibility of giving the post to Vital Kamerhe. All options are on the table,” says a person close to the head of state. If Kamerhe succeeds in attracting crowds wherever he goes, Tshisekedi will not be able to do without him. This is a strategic message, one that comes as the president prepares to seek re-election in December 2023.
Looks like a great team Felix!!
Ffs, Felix!!
Let's just hope that the Manono file can finally be released soon, even if that may mean some accommodation with our detractors need be arranged. IMO it's vital that we get things squared away before the election campaigning begins in earnest - and most especially before the vote itself. As FTs controversial (and by many accounts, seemingly suspect) election victory showed, we can never be too complacent regarding that outcome. God forbid another Kabila (and China linked) figure comes to power should games for resource control at Manono not have been convincingly concluded.
Never thought Carrier is lost . Just that Roche Dure by itself without Carrier is still a great outcome for SH . My main concern is the Chinese dragging this out for many more weeks / months . Tangling things up with legal procedure . Just curious to see if they/Chinese can delay the ICC Case Conference set for this week . I'd like to just go with all the intel / info that's been shared here and other places , but so far a lot of it has been off the mark /delays . I think it's good to have a healthy dose of both optimism and scepticism .
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Azzler
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Seems all rumors dried up?
Is there nothing out there to indicate a possible date of return to trading?
What do you guys think about the out of the ordinary date of 10th October of the last exstension?
And Nigels words "resulting in the re-instatement of trading in its securities."?
Do we think he's telling us he believes this is the last extension? Or just a platitude to calm anxious investors?
Apparently some DRC journalists were invited to a big event for the granting of our mining licence, that was meant to be on the 18th, but was cancelled due to CAMI boss being out of counrty. Is this right?
Has there been no further invitations for it's rescheduling?
Someone, give me a crumb!
Is there nothing out there to indicate a possible date of return to trading?
What do you guys think about the out of the ordinary date of 10th October of the last exstension?
And Nigels words "resulting in the re-instatement of trading in its securities."?
Do we think he's telling us he believes this is the last extension? Or just a platitude to calm anxious investors?
Apparently some DRC journalists were invited to a big event for the granting of our mining licence, that was meant to be on the 18th, but was cancelled due to CAMI boss being out of counrty. Is this right?
Has there been no further invitations for it's rescheduling?
Someone, give me a crumb!
John25
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Dont mind at all wombat …wasnt meant to be funny thoughFunnypost from @John25 on the crapper about Felix . Hope you don't mind repeating it here .
"exactly …it seems to go with the job …fly around the world ,shake hands ,smile ,stroke the ego …all yap ,no action .Just get your fat arse home & start stamping FFS its been 20 weeks but who’s counting"
Been in this Royal shit show fuck fest for a lonnnng time now & just about had a gut full of the lack of decision making governments ,you could say world wide …how fucking hard could it be to get a multi billion dollar mine up/running to help the economy of your country 
Rediah
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I heard something similar from outside source, maybe from same root source and just a rumour? ML meant to announce this coming week ( but didnt say it as we have heard that many times thats its coming this week) but now been rescheduled for week after ( i dont even want to say that as we have heard that TOO many times). I will believe it when it happens.
cruiser51
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This photo was taken 17/9/22 in the office of the Prime Minister Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde.
Second from left on back row is head of Cami Jean Felix Mupande Kapwa.
If you story is true he must have forgotten to show up for the next big event the day after.
Maybe they didn't promise a group photo, so he was highly annoyed.
Frederick Will
Member
Thanks Nells. I (am I'm sure many others) are always grateful for your insights, comments and sharing of information
Hey Nells, thanks also from me. In the absence of anything official I still like to hear from the rumor mill. If nothing else it's a sign that AVZ still exists!
With regard to the splitting of 13359/CDL, putting aside the theories of underhand/dodgy/nefarious intent for a moment (and I'm not saying that we should!), I can kind of understand the regulator wanting to do this. By making the CDL portion the subject of an exploration permit, doesn't it sort of prevent AVZ just sitting on the tenement without doing anything productive (in the way some of the big IO miners have done in WA)? It's such a massive asset for the DRC; if they did include it in 13359, AVZ could in theory not develop it until they need to (say 10 years from now), whereas with the exploration permit it kind of forces them to demonstrate activity or lose it. From the DRC's perspective, that approach makes sense.
Of course this could be a completely naive/stupid interpretation of the situation, especially given all the goings on to date.
Hopefully one day we'll know the truth, when the ML is in hand and the share price truly reflective of AVZ's value.
May be AVZ will develop CDL with help of Piermont/ US or the Arabs...sure both of them would be interested...many ways how this could play out..soon we will know..IMO
Meanwhile the DRC cleanup is happening on all fronts...
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cruiser51
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A bit of Sunday reading.
Found this item from 09/09/22.
Had one mistake in it, the date of court case wasn't 22/12/22, but 22/12/21.
Dunno if this was posted before, but it gives some insight.
If only half of the rumours are true, the real honest Congolese people must be ashamed of their representatives, who without any feeling of guilt, or eye blinking just have been stealing from the common community, if it was their God given right to behave like that and helped Cong to operate like this and still do.
No wonder there are so many organisations trying to highlight this....
At the center of a nebula: Simon Cong, the new Congolese mining magnate, before the Lubumbashi Court of Appeal
September 9, 2022 TIGHANA MASIALA Economy , NEWS FEED
Simon Cong, owner of the ''Fleuve Congo Hôtel'', was received in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and graciously benefited from the manna of the opportunity to develop his business there and to put together with the Government a partnership company called ''DATHCOM MINING SAS'', under the Kabila regime to develop the Manono Lithium project. He is also the shareholder behind the company ''DATHOMIR INTERNATIONAL CORP'' which is today the sole shareholder of his company ''DATHOMIR'' according to the documents to which our investigators had access as much as the Inspector General of Finance (IGF) .
Six of the concessions in the sample included in the 45-page Global Witness Report entitled ''RENEWABLE ENERGY, WHAT IT COST?A dive into the emerging Congolese lithium sector, of which Manono's Dathcom Mining project (on PR13359) and one of Tantalex's concessions (PR13698), are or have been partly owned or acquired from companies associated with Cong Maohuai so as to be investigated by the Congolese government with civil society.
Chinese Cong Maohuai also led Dathomir Mining Resources Sarlu, one of the partners in the Dathcom Mining SA joint venture with Cominière and AVZ until September 2021 according to internal documents. Dathomir Mining Resources Sarlu is 100% owned by Dathomir Internationa Corp., represented by Mr. Cong. According to information received from concurring credible sources, Dathomir Mining Resources Sarlu was recorded as the main shareholder of AVZ in the company's 2018 and 2017 annual reports.A year later, in the 2019 annual report of AVZ Minerals, Dathomir Mining Resources Sarlu is no longer among the top 20 shareholders of AVZ Minerals for obvious reasons.
According to several sources and documents, it is established that Simon Cong Maohuai exercised, in the period of five months which had elapsed between the establishment of the joint venture and the purchase of the majority of the shares by AVZ Minerals, as representative of Dathomir Mining Resources Sarlu and briefly as Chairman of Dathcom Mining SAS.
In the case pending before the Court of Appeal, Mr. Cong Maohuai and his company pursued his own joint venture with the Congolese State Dathcom Mining SA (partnership company and also an important project of the Government and Cominière).
The facts of the case registered under RPA 7610 at the Court of Appeal of Lubumbashi
On September 16, 2021, Simon Cong, through his company Dathomir Mining Resources Sarlu, outgoing shareholder of the partnership company Dathcom Mining SA after having sold all his shares received free of charge from Cominière, had seized on "direct summons" the Court of Grande Instance du Haut-Katanga in Lubumbashi with a view to prosecuting the poor clerk of the Single Window for "forgery and use of forgery" for having regularly and legally carried an official seal on the register of shares, not of the counter but of the company Dathcom Mining SA.He also sued the Managing Director of the said company in which he claims to be a shareholder through his company Dathomir Mining Resources Sarlu for "complicity" in having updated the company's databases after the sale by Dathomir Mining Resources Sarlu of his actions to the majority shareholder AVZ International Ltd and, more seriously, to condemn the state partnership company to several tens of millions of US dollars.
According to the investigations and the lawyers of Dathcom Mining, while the hearing had been scheduled for December 22, 2022, the company Dathcom to protect itself had requested the "given act" in order to suspect the said Tribunal de Grande Instance of Lubumbashi whose elements evidence had indicated suspicious activity with Mr. Cong and his people. The Court of Cassation in Kinshasa had approved and acted but miraculously, as in a state of lawlessness, the Chief Registrar who was to issue the "Given act" in order to file it before the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Lubumbashi for blocking this procedure and having it transferred to another jurisdiction which would have allowed fair justice respecting the rights of the parties and a fair legal fight did not.
What seems to have already been prepared had happened and the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Lubumbashi rendered a judgment described as "not only unfair but unthinkable" by Dathcom's counsel, condemning:
- The clerk PAPALAS MUSAGI WABULASA (Principal Author) sentenced with admission of mitigating circumstances to 12 months of main penal servitude suspended for 12 months and a fine of 200,000 Congolese Francs. Failing payment within the legal period, he will suffer 10 days of subsidiary penal servitude with condemnation to the payment of a symbolic franc as damages for the benefit of the Dathomir company of Mr. Cong.
- The managing director of the company Dathcom (accomplice according to the complaint), Graeme Johnston, was sentenced in absentia (because he had been absent from the country due to COVID for more than two years), to three years of main penal servitude with immediate arrest and to a fine of 200,000 Congolese Francs. This is where the scandal and suspicion hold.
- The Dathcom company (in which Dathomir was supposed to be a shareholder and bearer of the Manono project, of which the State is entitled to 10%, Cominière is a shareholder and the people of Manono are awaiting the benefits), was found to be civilly liable for the payment of the sum of 50,000,000 US dollars (Fifty million US dollars) payable in Congolese Francs. A second scandal in favor of a Chinese who got everything graciously from Cominière in Dathcom but who earns millions of dollars on the back of the Republic in complicity with certain citizens and certain institutions of the country. This is not possible for a Congolese in China or under other skies.
This decision, described as ''unfair'' by several Congolese observers and jurists, rendered on December 24, 2021, ie just two days after the hearing and without having received the defense pleadings, in particular from the partnership company Dathcom , had been rendered by magistrates NDUME RUGADJO Patrick (President of the Chamber), MALANGU MUDIFIDI (judge) and NGOIE TSHIKALA (judge) with the assistance of MENDA KONJI (Officer of the Public Prosecutor's Office). She had thrown a discredit on justice, because it was the first time that not only the accomplishment was punished by 3 years is stronger than the main author who was 12 with a suspended sentence of 12 months with extenuating circumstances;
Through this judgment Dathomir and its owner Simon Cong had shown contempt not only for the Congolese people who had given him the opportunity to come and do business in the Democratic Republic of Congo under the previous regime but, in addition, by condemning the company of Dathcom partnership created to manage the Manono project, they wanted the Congolese people, the public company Cominière as well as the Government of the Republic to be able to pay this famous Chinese 50 million US dollars. The conviction of the Dathcom company implies that those who will pay this sum on behalf of the company to Mr. Cong are the following shareholders: Congolese State, AVZ International,
In view of these facts, the Minister of State in charge of Justice and Keeper of the Seals had reacted energetically by condemning these judgments and instructing the prison service to open an investigation to establish responsibilities by her letter under No. R271 /RKM/111/ APP/CAB/ME/MIN/J and GS/2022 of February 1, 2022, ordering the general inspectorate of judicial and penitentiary services to examine the facts and report to it.
Despite the reaction and disapproval of the patron saint of justice in the country, Mr. Simon Cong will still challenge the Congolese State and especially the efforts of the President of the Republic and Head of State, the Congolese government and the population of Manono by diligent the case in question on appeal under RPA 7610 while the Dathcom company awaits its notification miraculously and illegally blocked by the Mining Registry which nevertheless issued a favorable opinion, leading to a daily loss evaluated by the majority shareholder at "more than million dollars (and having lost more than $100 million to date).
It is urgent to ask by what miracle and on the basis of what law the judges of the Court of Cassation refused to render their decision to "act" in order to allow Dathcom Mining to suspect the Court of Appeal of Lubumbashi as does the law provide ? How and why did judges not appear individually at the composition to deliver the verdict? According to the Momentum firm contacted by the investigators advising Dathcom Mining, of the more than 28 cases taken under advisement, 26 cases had been pronounced and only the two cases of his client remained undecided. Who is preventing Dathcom from defending itself honestly and for what reason? Just justice and the rule of law are put to the test by a stranger who has earned more from his victim than he has given to him,
While all eyes are on the leadership of His Excellency the President who is more concerned with the start of the project and the situation of the people of Manono, Dathomir after having regularly sold its shares in AVZ, changes position after the release of the Feasibility Study which raised everyone's interest in the project.
The release of the said Feasibility Study having changed his point of view, Dathomir of the Chinese Simon Cong decided to prosecute his own company without worrying that he would charge the Congolese State, Cominière (his two benefactors) as well as AVZ International the 50 Million US dollars he is claiming from Dathcom Mining.
The DRC has allowed Mr. Cong to win juicy contracts, he is involved in several mining concessions in Manono including through companies like MINOCOM with links to TANTALEX as well as more than six mining concessions since the past regime.
For some time now, it has therefore been against the will of the Head of State to see the project started as quickly as possible that Mr. Cong and his company Dathomir have been using unsuitable maneuvers to make him pay more after the sale by using justice through trials that do not respect the rights of the defense or the laws of the country.
The media and civil society organizations member of the Coalition "the DRC and its people first" call on the IGF to investigate in depth the involvement of this Chinese citizen in the selling off of state mining assets in Cominière whose operations to obtain research permits PR 12436 , 12449 and 12450. Because after the publication of the IGF report on Cominière, the Congolese do not understand how he managed to escape from legal action. Would this gentleman be protected by certain high-ranking personalities taunting the higher authorities of the country and allowing him to taunt an entire country? Investigations by state institutions are needed, including those of the APLC and the National Assembly.
For certain civil society organizations in Lubumbashi and Kinshasa which are also investigating this case, "Simon Cong does not give a damn about the people of Manono and multiplies maneuvers by using justice to enrich himself more than the Congolese State, which owns the assets mines for which butter is made".
During the workshop organized last August at CEPAS on Lithium in the DRC by CERN-CENCO, the participants, including those of the Minister of Mines, mentioned that Mr. Cong, through his company Dathomir Mining Resources Sarlu, was to contribute by a stake in the Manono Lithium project in Dathcom Mining SA;all the participants of this CEPAS workshop had learned and realized that to date this Chinese citizen has not contributed anything while he and his Dathomir have earned a lot of money using the country's mining concessions managed by Cominière SA .
While this country has given him everything and offered opportunities for regular good, it is established today, given his legal actions in Lubumbashi mentioned above, that Mr. Cong is one of the people who block the development of the Manono Lithium project and that of the country for the benefit of the interests of a group to be quickly identified and exposed according to the call of the President of the Republic of 2019 against all those who are suspected of maintaining anti-values in the DRC.
A survey carried out by Congo Nouveau, Le Socle, Econews, RCEN, Le Leader, Mining News Magazine, the coalition "All for the DRC" and the Consrtium "The DRC and its people first".
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Sparrowhawk12
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Good find Cruiser. I'm a prayin, sooner or a later, Conga is a gonna.A bit of Sunday reading.
Found this item from 09/09/22.
Had one mistake in it, the date of court case wasn't 22/12/22, but 22/12/21.
Dunno if this was posted before, but it gives some insight.
If only half of the rumours are true, the real honest Congolese people must be ashamed of their representatives, who without any feeling of guilt, or eye blinking just have been stealing from the common community, if it was their God given right to behave like that and helped Cong to operate like this and still do.
No wonder there are so many organisations trying to highlight this....
At the center of a nebula: Simon Cong, the new Congolese mining magnate, before the Lubumbashi Court of Appeal
September 9, 2022 TIGHANA MASIALA Economy , NEWS FEED
Simon Cong, owner of the ''Fleuve Congo Hôtel'', was received in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and graciously benefited from the manna of the opportunity to develop his business there and to put together with the Government a partnership company called ''DATHCOM MINING SAS'', under the Kabila regime to develop the Manono Lithium project. He is also the shareholder behind the company ''DATHOMIR INTERNATIONAL CORP'' which is today the sole shareholder of his company ''DATHOMIR'' according to the documents to which our investigators had access as much as the Inspector General of Finance (IGF) .
Six of the concessions in the sample included in the 45-page Global Witness Report entitled ''RENEWABLE ENERGY, WHAT IT COST?A dive into the emerging Congolese lithium sector, of which Manono's Dathcom Mining project (on PR13359) and one of Tantalex's concessions (PR13698), are or have been partly owned or acquired from companies associated with Cong Maohuai so as to be investigated by the Congolese government with civil society.
Chinese Cong Maohuai also led Dathomir Mining Resources Sarlu, one of the partners in the Dathcom Mining SA joint venture with Cominière and AVZ until September 2021 according to internal documents. Dathomir Mining Resources Sarlu is 100% owned by Dathomir Internationa Corp., represented by Mr. Cong. According to information received from concurring credible sources, Dathomir Mining Resources Sarlu was recorded as the main shareholder of AVZ in the company's 2018 and 2017 annual reports.A year later, in the 2019 annual report of AVZ Minerals, Dathomir Mining Resources Sarlu is no longer among the top 20 shareholders of AVZ Minerals for obvious reasons.
According to several sources and documents, it is established that Simon Cong Maohuai exercised, in the period of five months which had elapsed between the establishment of the joint venture and the purchase of the majority of the shares by AVZ Minerals, as representative of Dathomir Mining Resources Sarlu and briefly as Chairman of Dathcom Mining SAS.
In the case pending before the Court of Appeal, Mr. Cong Maohuai and his company pursued his own joint venture with the Congolese State Dathcom Mining SA (partnership company and also an important project of the Government and Cominière).
The facts of the case registered under RPA 7610 at the Court of Appeal of Lubumbashi
On September 16, 2021, Simon Cong, through his company Dathomir Mining Resources Sarlu, outgoing shareholder of the partnership company Dathcom Mining SA after having sold all his shares received free of charge from Cominière, had seized on "direct summons" the Court of Grande Instance du Haut-Katanga in Lubumbashi with a view to prosecuting the poor clerk of the Single Window for "forgery and use of forgery" for having regularly and legally carried an official seal on the register of shares, not of the counter but of the company Dathcom Mining SA.He also sued the Managing Director of the said company in which he claims to be a shareholder through his company Dathomir Mining Resources Sarlu for "complicity" in having updated the company's databases after the sale by Dathomir Mining Resources Sarlu of his actions to the majority shareholder AVZ International Ltd and, more seriously, to condemn the state partnership company to several tens of millions of US dollars.
According to the investigations and the lawyers of Dathcom Mining, while the hearing had been scheduled for December 22, 2022, the company Dathcom to protect itself had requested the "given act" in order to suspect the said Tribunal de Grande Instance of Lubumbashi whose elements evidence had indicated suspicious activity with Mr. Cong and his people. The Court of Cassation in Kinshasa had approved and acted but miraculously, as in a state of lawlessness, the Chief Registrar who was to issue the "Given act" in order to file it before the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Lubumbashi for blocking this procedure and having it transferred to another jurisdiction which would have allowed fair justice respecting the rights of the parties and a fair legal fight did not.
What seems to have already been prepared had happened and the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Lubumbashi rendered a judgment described as "not only unfair but unthinkable" by Dathcom's counsel, condemning:
Simon Cong wants to establish himself as the king of lithium
- The clerk PAPALAS MUSAGI WABULASA (Principal Author) sentenced with admission of mitigating circumstances to 12 months of main penal servitude suspended for 12 months and a fine of 200,000 Congolese Francs. Failing payment within the legal period, he will suffer 10 days of subsidiary penal servitude with condemnation to the payment of a symbolic franc as damages for the benefit of the Dathomir company of Mr. Cong.
- The managing director of the company Dathcom (accomplice according to the complaint), Graeme Johnston, was sentenced in absentia (because he had been absent from the country due to COVID for more than two years), to three years of main penal servitude with immediate arrest and to a fine of 200,000 Congolese Francs. This is where the scandal and suspicion hold.
- The Dathcom company (in which Dathomir was supposed to be a shareholder and bearer of the Manono project, of which the State is entitled to 10%, Cominière is a shareholder and the people of Manono are awaiting the benefits), was found to be civilly liable for the payment of the sum of 50,000,000 US dollars (Fifty million US dollars) payable in Congolese Francs. A second scandal in favor of a Chinese who got everything graciously from Cominière in Dathcom but who earns millions of dollars on the back of the Republic in complicity with certain citizens and certain institutions of the country. This is not possible for a Congolese in China or under other skies.
This decision, described as ''unfair'' by several Congolese observers and jurists, rendered on December 24, 2021, ie just two days after the hearing and without having received the defense pleadings, in particular from the partnership company Dathcom , had been rendered by magistrates NDUME RUGADJO Patrick (President of the Chamber), MALANGU MUDIFIDI (judge) and NGOIE TSHIKALA (judge) with the assistance of MENDA KONJI (Officer of the Public Prosecutor's Office). She had thrown a discredit on justice, because it was the first time that not only the accomplishment was punished by 3 years is stronger than the main author who was 12 with a suspended sentence of 12 months with extenuating circumstances;
Through this judgment Dathomir and its owner Simon Cong had shown contempt not only for the Congolese people who had given him the opportunity to come and do business in the Democratic Republic of Congo under the previous regime but, in addition, by condemning the company of Dathcom partnership created to manage the Manono project, they wanted the Congolese people, the public company Cominière as well as the Government of the Republic to be able to pay this famous Chinese 50 million US dollars. The conviction of the Dathcom company implies that those who will pay this sum on behalf of the company to Mr. Cong are the following shareholders: Congolese State, AVZ International,
In view of these facts, the Minister of State in charge of Justice and Keeper of the Seals had reacted energetically by condemning these judgments and instructing the prison service to open an investigation to establish responsibilities by her letter under No. R271 /RKM/111/ APP/CAB/ME/MIN/J and GS/2022 of February 1, 2022, ordering the general inspectorate of judicial and penitentiary services to examine the facts and report to it.
Despite the reaction and disapproval of the patron saint of justice in the country, Mr. Simon Cong will still challenge the Congolese State and especially the efforts of the President of the Republic and Head of State, the Congolese government and the population of Manono by diligent the case in question on appeal under RPA 7610 while the Dathcom company awaits its notification miraculously and illegally blocked by the Mining Registry which nevertheless issued a favorable opinion, leading to a daily loss evaluated by the majority shareholder at "more than million dollars (and having lost more than $100 million to date).
It is urgent to ask by what miracle and on the basis of what law the judges of the Court of Cassation refused to render their decision to "act" in order to allow Dathcom Mining to suspect the Court of Appeal of Lubumbashi as does the law provide ? How and why did judges not appear individually at the composition to deliver the verdict? According to the Momentum firm contacted by the investigators advising Dathcom Mining, of the more than 28 cases taken under advisement, 26 cases had been pronounced and only the two cases of his client remained undecided. Who is preventing Dathcom from defending itself honestly and for what reason? Just justice and the rule of law are put to the test by a stranger who has earned more from his victim than he has given to him,
While all eyes are on the leadership of His Excellency the President who is more concerned with the start of the project and the situation of the people of Manono, Dathomir after having regularly sold its shares in AVZ, changes position after the release of the Feasibility Study which raised everyone's interest in the project.
The release of the said Feasibility Study having changed his point of view, Dathomir of the Chinese Simon Cong decided to prosecute his own company without worrying that he would charge the Congolese State, Cominière (his two benefactors) as well as AVZ International the 50 Million US dollars he is claiming from Dathcom Mining.
The DRC has allowed Mr. Cong to win juicy contracts, he is involved in several mining concessions in Manono including through companies like MINOCOM with links to TANTALEX as well as more than six mining concessions since the past regime.
For some time now, it has therefore been against the will of the Head of State to see the project started as quickly as possible that Mr. Cong and his company Dathomir have been using unsuitable maneuvers to make him pay more after the sale by using justice through trials that do not respect the rights of the defense or the laws of the country.
The media and civil society organizations member of the Coalition "the DRC and its people first" call on the IGF to investigate in depth the involvement of this Chinese citizen in the selling off of state mining assets in Cominière whose operations to obtain research permits PR 12436 , 12449 and 12450. Because after the publication of the IGF report on Cominière, the Congolese do not understand how he managed to escape from legal action. Would this gentleman be protected by certain high-ranking personalities taunting the higher authorities of the country and allowing him to taunt an entire country? Investigations by state institutions are needed, including those of the APLC and the National Assembly.
For certain civil society organizations in Lubumbashi and Kinshasa which are also investigating this case, "Simon Cong does not give a damn about the people of Manono and multiplies maneuvers by using justice to enrich himself more than the Congolese State, which owns the assets mines for which butter is made".
During the workshop organized last August at CEPAS on Lithium in the DRC by CERN-CENCO, the participants, including those of the Minister of Mines, mentioned that Mr. Cong, through his company Dathomir Mining Resources Sarlu, was to contribute by a stake in the Manono Lithium project in Dathcom Mining SA;all the participants of this CEPAS workshop had learned and realized that to date this Chinese citizen has not contributed anything while he and his Dathomir have earned a lot of money using the country's mining concessions managed by Cominière SA .
While this country has given him everything and offered opportunities for regular good, it is established today, given his legal actions in Lubumbashi mentioned above, that Mr. Cong is one of the people who block the development of the Manono Lithium project and that of the country for the benefit of the interests of a group to be quickly identified and exposed according to the call of the President of the Republic of 2019 against all those who are suspected of maintaining anti-values in the DRC.
A survey carried out by Congo Nouveau, Le Socle, Econews, RCEN, Le Leader, Mining News Magazine, the coalition "All for the DRC" and the Consrtium "The DRC and its people first".
I really need resolution ASAP by 10/10/22. Too much uncertainty for me: AVZ, my job, other investments need funds - may need to sell 1/3 of my AVZ, hoping to keep the other 2/3 at least until we are shipping PLS from Manono.
Hoping we all survive these chyna hijack attempts. Br Sparrowhawk.
All IMO. GLTAH.
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