He is wanted for “child rape” and “false writing”. The prosecutor’s office in Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), issued two warrants against a French businessman working there. Operating in Corsica and then in Africa, at the head of several companies, Pascal Beveraggi, is the subject of a “warrant to bring” and a “wanted notice”.
The prosecutor’s office at the Kinshasa/Gombe Court of Appeal, after investigating the accusation of “child rape”, issued an arrest warrant so that the “accused” be arrested and brought before a magistrate, given that he did not respond to two previous summonses, we learned on Monday.
The denunciation of rape to Congolese justice was made last March by the Congolese non-governmental organization “Committee of Human Rights Observers” for acts that allegedly took place between 2016 and 2019 on a young girl born in November 2002.
Litigation with a politician over the ownership of a company
“Please actively seek the named Pascal Beveraggi, prosecuted for the offenses of forgery in writing and use of forgery. In case of discovery, apprehend him and send him under good escort to the general prosecutor’s office in Kinshasa / Gombe, “wrote Bonheur Luntaka, head of this prosecutor’s office. The arrest warrant and the wanted notice were authenticated by the AFP news agency.
In a letter addressed to Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi in January, Pascal Beveraggi indicated that he was the victim of “accusations as far-fetched as they are infamous” in the DRC where he made “the bitter observation of a total abandonment of the rule of law”. . Since 2019, he has been arguing with the former governor of Katanga Moïse Katumbi over the ownership of a mining company MCK (Mining Company of Katanga) in the city of Lubumbashi before Congolese and French courts. Katanga is the name of a former province of the DRC.
The French businessman rose to fame in the DRC after taking charge of Football club Lupopo in 2019, one of Lubumbashi’s popular sports teams.