Isabel Tshombe has been in France since January 2022. According to a note from the Congolese Foreign Minister, Christophe Lutundula Apala Pen’Apala, she must return to Kinshasa “before January 23, 2023”. The note appeared on social networks.
The ambassador must account for, among other things, a cash shortfall of approximately 1.8 million euros in “the sale of passports, visa costs and other chancery transactions”, the document shows. The minister also accuses the diplomat of withholding 2.5 million euros that should have gone to Congo’s treasury. Lutundula accuses the ambassador of “turning the cash register of the embassy into a private cash register”.
Tshombe will be questioned in Kinshasa by a disciplinary committee about the embezzlement. She said on Twitter on Saturday that she “stood straight in her shoes and stood her ground”
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