A former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been sentenced to forced to work for a decade for corruption.
Augustine Matata concept was found guilty of misappropriation of about $ 245 million (£ 182 million) of public funds from the Constitutional Court in Congo
Mata's lawyer told the Reuters Agency that the decision was unfair and politically motivated.
Some of the funds were taken from a major development of agriculture intended to cope with the chronic shortage of food in the country.
MATATA serves as Prime Minister of the DRC from 2012 to 2016 and now leads the country's leadership and government (LGD).
Before his premiere he was a finance minister and had received Praise from the International Monetary Fund at that time to stabilize the country's economy.
Deographias Mutombo, the former governor of the central bank, was also sentenced to five years of forced labor in the same case and did not publicly comment on the decision.
Forced labor is legal in the e -Congo when a clergy of a court for criminal punishment, According to the US State DepartmentS
Both men have been banned from the public service for five years since the end of their forced labor conditions, AFP News reports.
MATATA, which campaign against PSP President Felix Tshiziekedes in 2023, before declined, consistently denied the allegations.
The case has extended for almost four years since the country's general inspectorate has announced the theft of the Bucacanga-Londzo Agro-Industrial Park in 2020.
The park was one of the largest investment in Africa in Africa, according to the Reuters Agency, and the African Bank Development Group expected to provide 22,000 jobs.
It aimed to provide an endowment of 28 million people who are currently facing acute nutritional uncertainty in the Congo, which has been struck by a conflict for more than 30 years, following the 1994 Rwanda genocide.