We need your assistance to stop illegal capital flight : Congolese officials tell a Mbeki mission to Kinshasa

Abstract

Top Government officials, heads of Parliament as well as leaders of the civil society and the private sector of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) say they are eagerly anticipating the recommendations from a High Level Panel led by South Africa’s former President Thabo Mbeki, to save the country from wanton illegal cash outflows that have cost the country over $54 billion in the last four decades. The High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa (HLP), which receives technical support from the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), concluded its three-day assignment to the DRC on a high note and expressed its satisfaction on the openness of all stakeholders consulted. The mission was part of a continent-wide and global campaign to help halt and repatriate the huge amounts of money illegally carted away from Africa in Addis Ababa, 28 August 2013 (ECA).