The leak occurred in the summer of 2021 and revealed that a shell company called the Congo Construction Company (CCC), whose accounts were held at the Kinshasa branch of BGFIBank, acted as a financial intermediary between Chinese mining companies and Kabila’s family. One of Kabila’s sisters owned a 40 percent stake in the bank branch, for which she never paid a dollar, and the branch was operated by one of Kabila’s brothers. An investigation conducted by Bloomberg revealed that “in total, about $65 million flowed through CCC’s accounts between January 2013 and July 2018, of which $41 million
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