REASONS BEHIND THE ARREST OF CONGOLESE ARMED FORCES OFFICERS KAPEND AND YAV, AND OF DROC SECURITY OFFICIALS LUTULA AND LETA

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• Publication Date: March 13, 2001

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DIST: 13 MARCH 2001
COUNTRY: CONGO(K)/LEBANON
SUBJ: REASONS BEHIND THE ARREST OF CONGOLESE ARMED FORCES
OFFICERS KAPEND AND YAV, AND OF DROC SECURITY OFFICIALS
LUTULA AND LETA
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SUMMARY: NONE
TEXT: 1.
FORMER PRESIDENTIAL MILITARY AIDE-DE-CAMP
EDDY ((KAPEND)) AND KINSHASA 50TH BRIGADE COMMANDER JEAN ((YAV))
NAWEJ WERE ARRESTED IN FEBRUARY 2001 BECAUSE OF THEIR SUSPECTED
CONNECTION TO THE EXECUTION OF 11 LOCAL LEBANESE BUSINESSMEN
FOLLOWING THE 16 JANUARY ASSASSINATION. KAPEND AND YAV ARE BEING
QUESTIONED ABOUT WHETHER THEY GAVE THE ORDERS TO CARRY OUT THESE
EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS. AS OF 10 MARCH, NEITHER KAPEND NOR YAV
HAD BEEN QUESTIONED THOROUGHLY ON THE ASSASSINATION OF THE DROC
PRESIDENT.
2. THE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE HAD UNSUBSTANTIATED
INFORMATION INDICATING THAT THERE MAY HAVE BEEN AN ORGANIZED PLOT
TO KILL FORMER DROC PRESIDENT LAURENT-DESIRE.KABILA. ACCORDING TO
THESE SUSPICIONS, THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S BODYGUARDS (WHO WERE NOT
BEING REGULARLY PAID, WERE TREATED BADLY, AND ANGRY ABOUT THE
NOVEMBER 2000 EXECUTION OF THEIR FORMER COMMANDER ANSELME MASASU
FOR COUP PLOTTING) APPROACHED SOME LEBANESE BUSINESSMEN (NFI) IN
KINSHASA, INITIALLY JUST INTENDING TO EXTORT MONEY FROM THEM.
THESE LEBANESE BUSINESSMEN, WHO WERE DISSATISFIED OVER THEIR LOSS
OF BUSINESS IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE DROC'S AWARDING OF A MONOPOLY
ON DROC DIAMOND TRADING TO THE ISRAELI FIRM "IDI DIAMONDS,"
PURPORTEDLY SOON REALIZED THESE BODYGUARDS COULD BE USED.
3. THE COMMITTEE HAD HEARD ACCOUNTS THAT WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY
PLANNED BY THESE LEBANESE WAS A COUP D'ETAT AGAINST LAURENT-DESIRE
KABILA'S GOVERNMENT, AND THAT GENERAL YAV RECEIVED MONEY FROM
MEMBERS OF THE LEBANESE BUSINESS COMMUNITY TO CARRY OUT THIS COUP.
COMMENT: IT APPEARS THAT THE TRANSITION FROM COUP
TO ASSASSINATION HAPPENED LATER.) IN HIS STATEMENTS TO THE
COMMITTEE, YAV IS NOW TRYING TO IMPLICATE KAPEND IN THE KILLING OF
THE LOCAL LEBANESE AFTER THE ASSASSINATION. THE COMMITTEE DOES
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NOT YET KNOW WHETHER YAV'S CLAIMS OF KAPEND'S INVOLVEMENT ARE TRUE
OR NOT.
4. IN FURTHER SUPPORT OF THE THEORY THAT THERE WAS A PLOT TO
ASSASSINATE LAURENT-DESIRE KABILA, THE COMMITTEE HAD HEARD ONE
ACCOUNT THAT THERE HAD BEEN AN ANONYMOUS PHONE CALL FROM BRUSSELS,
BELGIUM ON 15 JANUARY WARNING OF A POSSIBLE PLAN TO KILL KABILA.
COMMENT: THE IDENTITY OF THE CALLER WAS NOT KNOWN, BUT THE
VOICE PURPORTEDLY SOUNDED LIKE THAT OF.A CONGOLESE WOMAN.) THE
PRESIDENT'S PERSONAL ASSISTANT, NELLY ((NTITIE)), TOOK THE CALL
BUT WAS NOT CERTAIN WHAT TO DO WITH THE INFORMATION, SO SHE TOLD
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (ANR) DIRECTOR ((LETA)) MANGASSA
GEORGES. LETA WAS UNSURE OF THE VALIDITY OF THE INFORMATION AND
IT APPEARS HE INITIALLY DID NOTHING. AFTER THE PRESIDENT'S DEATH,
HOWEVER, HE PROVIDED DROC INVESTIGATORS LOOKING INTO THE
ASSASSINATION DIVERGENT ACCOUNTS OF HIS ACTIONS, INCLUDING THAT HE
PASSED THE INFORMATION TO LAURENT-DESIRE KABILA DIRECTLY, AND/OR
THAT HE ADVISED NONO ((LUTULA)), SPECIAL ADVISOR FOR SECURITY
MATTERS TO THE DROC PRESIDENT. COMMENT: LETA AND LUTULA
WERE ARRESTED IN EARLY MARCH TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT THE OVERALL
HANDLING OF THEIR SECURITY DUTIES LEADING UP TO THE ASSASSINATION
OF KABILA, AND PURPORTEDLY ABOUT THE ANONYMOUS PHONE CALL.)
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