The package of 1,600 kilograms seized Tuesday at the International Airport N'djili does contain coltan, say sources close to the Minister of Mines. The Evaluation Centre, expertise and certification (CEEC) still questions the nature of the parcel pending the outcome of the ongoing expertise.
This parcel, owned by a Gambian citizen, was ready to board a flight to Paris by Ethiopian Airlines.
At national ministry of Mines, it is indicated that this parcel would come from Walikale in North Kivu, bound for France.
But the provincial Department of Mines Goma is not aware of any fraud. According
the national Department of Mines, this is a package already worked, representing about 30,000 U.S. dollars, revenues were escaping the Congolese state.
The CEEC, speaking through his deputy, Leonid Mupepele, remains skeptical: If ore from Walikale Gambian why did he not want to ship through Goma or Bukavu instead go through Kinshasa?
Now, he says, the price of a kilo of coltan varies enter 17 and $ 20. For such amount, the owner of the CEEC believes that the holder This cargo huge losses.
But if the version of the National Ministry of Mines holds, it will be subject to question the trajectory of the parcel.
is in principle Thursday that the SETC will determine the nature of the ore before commenting. Copyright Radio Okapi
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