“Embassy money register modified to non-public money register” – Muricas News

The Democratic Republic of Congo has recalled its ambassador to Paris, Isabel Tshombe, as a result of she is suspected of embezzling tens of millions of euros. The diplomat, who's the daughter of former Katangese chief and Congolese prime minister Moïse Tshombe, denies the allegations.

Isabel Tshombe has been in France since January 2022. In accordance with a notice from Congolese Overseas Minister Christophe Pen’Apala, she should return to Kinshasa “earlier than January 23, 2023”.

The ambassador should account for, amongst different issues, a money shortfall of roughly 1.8 million euros in “the sale of passports, visa prices and different chancery transactions”, the doc reveals. The minister additionally accuses the diplomat of withholding 2.5 million euros that ought to have gone to Congo’s treasury.

Lutundula accuses the ambassador of “turning the embassy money register into a non-public money register that was operated with out observance of the essential rules of economic orthodoxy with contempt for the authorized provisions.”

Tshombe shall be questioned in Kinshasa by a disciplinary committee concerning the embezzlement. She mentioned on Twitter on Saturday that she “stood straight in her sneakers and stood her floor”.