The Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office (MPC) received on Friday a criminal complaint from Public Eye against UBS.

The criminal complaint reveals a misappropriation of funds by Philippe de Moerloose, a Belgian businessman close to the former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Joseph Kabila, and the bank UBS in Geneva and Zurich. According to Public Eye, the latter received funds of "dubious origin". The businessman would have received in 2012, a sum of 7 million dollars on his UBS account in Zurich, "opened in the name of an offshore company". Public Eye filed this denunciation with the Platform for the Protection of Whistleblowers in Africa (PPLAAF) and the association UNIS, a network fighting against corruption. This denunciation follows the revelations of the "Congo Hold-Up" investigation in 2021, which raised the possible involvement of UBS in the laundering of Congolese public funds embezzled by the Kabila clan.