Belgian legal case involving his family: Félix Tshisekedi denounces a « plot » to smear him and announces a « counterattack »

Félix Tshisekedi denounced what he called a plot targeting his family in connection with a legal case in Belgium, speaking to Congolese diaspora members in Russia on October 30. The DRC president said his political opponents first accused him of using public funds for foreign travel, a claim he said the Central Bank of Congo had denied. He accused an attorney he called a “fake lawyer” and his predecessor, Joseph Kabila, of conspiring against his relatives in an effort to damage him. Tshisekedi said no compromising evidence had been made public following searches carried out in the case.