jews cashing-in in Congo

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The Jewish Ancestry Of A Wealthy Politician Threatens To Tear The Congo Apart 
https://christiansfortruth.com/the-jewish-ancestry-of-a-wealthy-politician-threatens-to-tear-the-congo-apart/

The ancestry of the wealthy son of a Jewish refugee in the Democratic Republic of Congo has emerged as a flashpoint for a political crisis that is threatening the integrity of the massive African country:

https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/the-ancestry-of-a-jewish-refugees-son-is-at-the-heart-of-a-major-political-crisis-in-congo

The crisis came to a head last week when lawmakers loyal to President Felix Tshiseked introduced a bill that would restrict the presidency to those with two Congolese parents.

It's a thinly veiled move against Moise Katumbi, one of Congo's most popular politicians, whose father was a Greek Jew who fled the Holocaust in Europe and settled in Congo, where he married a local woman, Katumbi's mother.

A vote on the bill has not been scheduled, but the measure is already angering Katumbi's large supporter base and raising fears of a return to political violence in Congo. Rivalries and inter-ethnic hostility have triggered human tragedies on a massive scale in the land of 5.4 million people.

Rabbi Menachem Margolin, chairman of the European Jewish Association and an ally of Katumbi, condemned the bill, saying it's "an outrage that in 2021 a person can be disqualified for having a Jewish parent."

Complicating matters further is the fact that Katumbi hails from the province of Katanga, a mineral-rich area in the country's east with a history of secessionism that he served as governor. The attempt to block Katumbi's path to the presidency is rekindling secessionist tendencies there.

On Monday, 10 great chiefs — community leaders wielding significant followings, influence and money — threatened to support secession if the bill is passed. The U.N. peacekeeping mission head in Congo, Bintou Keita, in connection with the crisis warned last week against the "dangerous consequences of a divisive debate about nationality," Reuters reported.

Let's face it — if Katumbi's father had been a Christian or Arab instead of a Jew, none of this would be much of a controversy at all.

Congo — or any country, for that matter — should have the right to be ruled over by ethnically Congolese leaders who will be more likely to be loyal to their people.

Should the Congolese people trust Katumbi — after he has already expressed his "warm connection to Judaism and Israel"? Can he serve two masters?

And no doubt it's just a coincidence that Katumbi represents the part of the Congo with the richest mineral resources — something that Israel has no interest in exploiting, rest assured.

Where Jews or part-Jews have become leaders of non-Jewish countries, they are often perceived as disloyal — and for good reason — though Jews claim this "disloyalty" charge is just one of many antisemitic "canards".

Take Nicolas Sarkozy — the former French Prime Minister who is also "part" Salonican Greek Jew — in 2008 on national television, he told the ethnically French natives that they would have to race mix with non-Whites for France to "survive" — yet tells Arabs that their ethnic identity is sacrosanct:
What is the goal? It's going to be controversial. The goal is to meet the challenge of racial inter-breeding.that faces us in the 21st century. The challenges of racial interbreeding that France has always known. And in meeting the challenge of racial interbreeding, France is faithful to its history....It is not a choice — it's an obligation. It's an imperative. We cannot do otherwise. We risk finding ourselves confronted with major problems. We must change, therefore, we will change....We are going to change all at the same time — in business, in administration, in education, in the political parties. And we will obligate ourselves as to the results. If this volunteerism does not work, for our Republic, then the State will move to still more coercive measures.

Israeli billionaire embroiled in $360-million graft scandal thought to be country's biggest ever – reports
https://www.rt.com/news/529307-graft-scandal-billionaire-bribes/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

An Israeli billionaire has reportedly implicated himself in a corruption scandal after filing court documents that allegedly show he'd paid $360 million in bribes to officials for mining rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The documents, which were submitted to arbitration proceedings in Israel on behalf of mining tycoon Dan Gertler, reportedly included an affidavit that apparently revealed how some $360,292,535 in cash was lent to a company that used it to pay large sums to a senior public official in Congo.

According to newspaper Haaretz, it is apparently the biggest sum of money an Israeli has ever been suspected of paying as bribes. The paper reported that details of the scandal emerged over the course of a joint investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and Swiss authorities, into an inter-continental money-laundering network that stretched from Europe to Africa.

The affidavit had reportedly been submitted in Gertler's defense as part of a long-running civil suit filed by his former business partners, who sued him for 1.65 billion shekels ($504 million) over a decade ago.

Sources familiar with the case told Haaretz that the affidavit was intended to prove that Gertler's joint mining ventures with his partners had been less lucrative than they'd claimed in the suit.

The reason for this was reportedly the need to pay for "the goodwill and cooperation" of the Congolese officials who were responsible for granting mining licenses.

Although the parties in that arbitration case had agreed to maintain confidentiality regarding their dispute, some of the documents had been obtained by Britain's SFO and the US justice department.

Among these documents, the paper said, is a list of codenames thought to be the Congolese officials who are alleged to have accepted the bribes. The list also apparently details the amounts of money paid to each official.

In 2019, the SFO had asked Swiss authorities to obtain documents from a Swiss bank that could help its investigation into corruption and money-laundering. After an unidentified company that holds some of the suspect bank accounts used in the scheme lost its appeal in the Swiss Federal Criminal Court, details of the bank records and key figures involved came out.

The court judgment reportedly found that companies had consistently bribed officials in order to promote their business interests in Congo – which is one of Africa's biggest copper producers and also supplies the bulk of the global cobalt trade.

One individual identified as "C" is alleged to be the primary source of funds for the cash bribes. The court said this individual made the payments for a Gibraltar-registered business group operating in Congo.

Noting that the SFO had reasonable grounds to believe the large payments to Congolese officials were "tainted by corruption," the court said "C" worked with a "local financial entity" to pool cash from a number of Congo-based companies.

After using this money to pay local government officials, the judgment said, "C" would later repay these firms using the client account of a Gibraltar law firm and Swiss bank accounts.

Although the ruling did not identify Gertler as the suspect, Haaretz reported that it had confirmed documents described by the Swiss court as those submitted in the billionaire's civil suit arbitration proceedings.

However, an attorney for Gertler told the paper that "no affidavit and list are known to be in the arbitration file as claimed in your inquiry and no such things are found there."

Responding to Bloomberg's story, the lawyer said Gertler was not party to the Swiss court case or even aware of it and denied involvement in any corruption, payment of bribes or other such wrongdoing.