MINISTRY OF FOREIGN TRADE: COMMUNICATION AND PRESS UNIT: URGENT
For serious management errors including the installation of a parallel computer system for controlling imports and exports with the facilitation of the fraudulent use of false AV Verification Certificates, the basis of a huge shortfall estimated at thousands of US dollars, but also, the chaotic management of human and financial resources, and insubordination, the Director General of the Congolese Control Office-OCC, Etienne Tshimanga Mutombo has just been suspended as a precautionary measure. of his functions by the Minister of Foreign Trade, Julien Paluku Kahongya, in a ministerial decree signed this Monday, February 16, 2026, given the urgency of saving this scientific and technical organization from shipwreck.
During this period of suspension, the interim General Manager will be handled by the Deputy General Director, Christellle Mwabulu.
Note that this suspension gives rise to administrative and extra-administrative measures against the person named and the agents or executives of the Congolese Control Office-OCC complicit in the commission of the facts cited above.
A recovery commission of the Congolese Control Office-OCC is hereby established, the composition and specific missions of which will be determined by another Ministerial Order.
Note that the responses of the suspended Director General of the Congolese Control Office-OCC did not convince the supervisory authority which had opened disciplinary action against him.
