During a meeting with the Prosecutor General at the Court of Cassation on Saturday, February 18, 2023, the financial authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were invited to Kinshasa, to facilitate the punishment of perpetrators of tax evasion.

“I wanted to be with everyone in charge of financial institutions to hold them accountable, and now they will be responsible for any proven facts of fraud that they did not report to us. In other words, when I have prohibited judges from taking up fiscal, customs and non-tax matters, I am making the authorities of these financial boards responsible for being able to take responsibility for themselves,” said Firmin Mvonde, the Attorney General. According to him, “for the purpose of deterrence, when an act of fraud proves to be true and if a customs agent or financial agencies are involved in the commission of this fraud, this agent must be subject not only to disciplinary but also criminal sanctions.”

In reality, this meeting is part of the instruction that the General Prosecutor at the Court of Cassation issued on 23 January 2023. He recalled that the legal prohibition for prosecutors to prosecute fiscal, customs and non-fiscal matters without the prior authorization of the financial authorities.