FORMER CONGO PM GETS 10 YEARS FOR $245 MILLION FRAUD Matata Ponyo, former Prime Minister of the DRC, has been sentenced to 10 years of forced labor for embezzling $245 million from a failed state-run corn farming project. The project collapsed in 2017. Investigations began under President Tshisekedi in 2021. Ponyo denies all charges and claims political targeting. He’s still in Kinshasa. His co-defendants? One’s in Belgium, the other in South Africa. None are in custody.

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@MarioNawFORMER CONGO PM GETS 10 YEARS FOR $245 MILLION FRAUD Matata Ponyo, former Prime Minister of the DRC, has been sentenced to 10 years of forced labor for embezzling $245 million from a failed state-run corn farming project. The project collapsed in 2017. Investigations began under President Tshisekedi in 2021. Ponyo denies all charges and claims political targeting. He’s still in Kinshasa. His co-defendants? One’s in Belgium, the other in South Africa. None are in custody. Source: Africanews