Cominiere’s Corruption

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Cominiere’s Corruption

Investors, mining companies, battery maker’s and EV manufacturer’s around the world know the story of AVZ Minerals and how DRC state miner Cominiere seized the Manono lithium project from Dathcom and sold it to Chinese Zijin Mining

Follow the links below to see

1. The AVZ Minerals Story
2. Cominiere being bribed by Zijin Mining
3. The IGF Report detailing the corruption
4. First ICC Rulings against Cominiere
5. Second ICC Rulings against Cominiere
6. The ICSID Interim Orders against Cominiere
7. The ICC Ruling against Jin Cheng
8. The money Cominiere owes in penalty’s
9. ICC orders Cominiere to pay €39 million in penalties to AVZ

In the meantime, Cominiere continues to violate the ICC and ICSID interim orders. Follow the links below to see the evidence and read the facts 👇










 
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Celestin Kibeya (Managing Director of Cominiere) was recorded taking a bribe from Zijin and then illegally sold shares in Dathcom’s Manono Lithium Project to Jin Cheng (Zijin) for $120million below it’s value. This sale is recorded in Jules Alingette (Inspector General of Finance) IGF Report and deprived the DRC of over $120million. The money from the sale was shared between Celestin Kibeya and his accomplices and the rest was squandered and unaccounted for.

Since then, Celestin Kibeya and Lisette Kabanga have colluded with the DRC Mining Cadastre (CAMI) allowing Cominiere to illegally seize the Dathcom project and form a new joint venture partnership with Zijin (called Manono Lithium) on PR13359 tenement that AVZ Minerals has already developed and was ready to start construction. Cominiere and Zijin have continued to violate local and international laws and rob the population of Tanganyika of millions of dollars

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International miners and investors be warned before investing in the DRC Mining and Battery Minerals sectors. The DRC doesn't follow it's mining code, and doesn't abide by International Arbitration orders, including those by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the International Centre for Settlement of Disputes (ICSID).

The DRC invites foreign companies to invest in its mining and minerals sectors and once projects have been developed by foreign miners, the DRC seizes the projects and sells them on to Chinese companies for bribes. Currently the DRC owes billions of dollars in financial penalties via the International Courts following the corrupt and illegal seizure of projects by the State.

AVZ Minerals spent $140 million and fulfilled all mining license requirements, developing the Dathcom Manono lithium project to the Mining License and construction stage, then the DRC (through State Entity, Cominiere) covertly took steps to withdraw AVZ and Dathcom's Mining License, seized Dathcom’s project and sold it to Zijin Mining.

This was done in collusion with the CAMI, Ministry of Mines and Ministry of Portfolio and has resulted in more than 20,000 international investors losing billions of dollars worth of their investment.

The ICC and ICSID ordered Cominiere not to take steps to explore or exploit within PR13369 or PR15775, and to reestablish Dathcom as the holder of PR13359 but Cominiere and Zijin continue to violate these orders.

The DRC mining sector is not just corrupt, it is broke as a result of it's officials taking bribes and has been refusing to pay penalties of over $70 million to AVZ Minerals ordered by the ICC and ICSID.

Cominiere was shown by the Inspector General of Finance to have committed fraud and its Managing Director (Celestin Kibeya) has been recorded taking a bribe from Zijin. Despite this, and further evidence of Cominiere's corruption, the DRC President has allowed Cominiere's corruption to continue unabated.

Following Celestin Kibeya Kabemba being recorded taking a bribe from Chinese mining giant Zijin, Cominiere illegally sold 15% of shares in Dathcom to Jin Cheng Mining (a subsidiary of Zijin) and seized the Manono lithium project from Dathcom before selling the entire northern tenement to Zijin, including the areas where AVZ had drilled and obtained drill core assays, built a camp that housed the drill core library and accommodation for local workers, and other infrastructure.

Following AVZ Minerals winning all ICC and ICSID Arbitration decisions, Cominiere and Zijin’s joint venture (Manono Lithium) continues to violate ICC and ICSID orders

 
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ICC and ICSID Findings

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Communiques released from DRC Ministry of Mines shows conflicting information and misinformation from the DRC Ministry of Mines X.com site👇


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DRC NGO comments on the recent €39 million fine Cominiere has been ordered to pay AVZ Minerals due to violating ICSID orders 👇

DRC: Cominière conviction in the AVZ case on Manono Lithium, Jean-Pierre Okenda speaks of a logical continuation of the file​


March 17, 2025

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The decision of the International Chamber of Commerce, CCI in acronym, to condemn the Congolese Public Company Cominière (therefore the Congolese State), to pay 39.1 million euros to the Australian Company AVZ is, from an analytical point of view, "quite logical", for not having obeyed judicial procedures, says Jean-Pierre Okenda, Senior Analyst and Director of the NGO "La Sentinelle des Ressources Naturelles".

"This conviction is only the prelude to what will happen in this complex trial, which began in Lubumbashi, Kalemie, and Kinshasa, before the International Chamber of Commerce proceeded with this international arbitration decision," said Jean-Pierre Okenda, who also wondered: "what does the DRC gain, what does the Congolese gain and what does the population of Manono, in the Province of Tanganyika, gain".

And to continue:
"I was in Manono, in the Province of Manono, in February, the situation of local communities is very difficult. The population lives in indescribable poverty.

Weighing on the balance the decision taken by the Congolese authorities to approve the license of the Australian company AVZ and go back on its decision some time later, the Senior Analyst and Executive Director of the NGO The Sentinel of Natural Resources, without a tongue in his pocket, says: "The decision taken by the authorities is only beneficial to the ruling elite, and not to the Congolese state, nor to the Congolese in general, nor to the people of Manono in particular. In short, the decision-makers made the decision extremely outside the interests of the communities...".

Without being a prophet of misfortune, Jean-Pierre Okenda, says he senses the failure of the Congolese Public Society Comine in this file: "...I sincerely feel that the Congo (as a shareholder of the Cominière) will be a loser. Because, there has been politicization in this file; there has been a collision of interests in this file..."

In this exclusive interview with the Editorial Staff of Surveillance.cd, the Senior Analyst and Executive Director of the NGO La Sentinelle des Ressources Naturelles, considers this situation a waste in terms of income, in terms of benefits for communities, and in terms of the bad reputation of the DRC. With such a file, we reinforce the negative image of the DRC that does not know how to protect investments.

"Losses in terms of image of the DRC, in terms of material losses, where will the Congolese Public Company Cominière find nearly 40 million euros, to be paid, for the Australian company AVZ? ", he wonders.

This expert invites the Congolese elite who is in power, "to make decisions that privilege the interests of the Congo, the Congolese, the Congolese Communities, for the good reputation of the DRC".

Jean KAZADI P. K

 
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