Jaynet Kabila, who is also the daughter of a previous DRC president, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, owns half of Keratsu.
Investigation by Bloomberg and others, based on the revelations of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists into the Mossack Fonseca documents, shows that this is one element of the wealth built up by the family.
Her involvement in the Keratsu company was not previously known, says Bloomberg. The holding is through a company registered in Niue, a small state in the South Pacific with a population of 1,200.
UK-based Vodafone owns 65% of the Vodacom group, based in South Africa, which in turn controls Vodacom DRC.
“Members of Kabila’s family have accumulated huge wealth, including stakes in companies in offshore tax havens,” opposition leader and legislator Martin Fayulu told Bloomberg. “We need an urgent inquiry and we need to demand the repatriation of these monies.”
