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Article

2 Nov 2002

Author:
Mark Dummett, BBC News

DR Congo sacks diamond mine heads

President Joseph Kabila has dismissed the management committee of the Democratic Republic of Congo's state diamond mining company, Miba [minority-owned by Sibeka (Part of Umicore)]...The decree comes two weeks after the publication of a United Nations report which accused senior Congolese officials of plundering the country's mineral wealth during its four-year war. The report alleged the board and senior members of the Congolese Government funnelled billions of dollars of state assets into the hands of private companies.