81ST MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS CHAIRED THIS FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2026 AT THE AFRICAN UNION CITY BY THE PRIME MINISTER, JUDITH SUMINWA INFORMATION NOTE REPORTING TO THE FOREIGN TRADE SECTOR
Following the instruction of the Prime Minister, Head of Government, the Minister of Foreign Trade for his part highlighted to the council for examination and approval, the concrete proposals with a view to resolving the file of OCC provisions constituted in the case of import licenses and goods.
Indeed, these provisions are constituted by the Central Bank of Congo-BCC and the Congolese Control Office-OCC in charge of the importers concerned during the validation of the import declaration of goods, license intended to remunerate the control before shipment of the goods.
However, many importers do not subject their goods to this control and declare them as unlicensed imports upon arrival in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which facilitates fraud.
The mass of money thus constituted cannot be returned without cancellation of the declarations of import of goods subscribed upstream with the banks, nor be paid to the Congolese Control Office-OCC.
Thus, the banks found themselves with funds that the General Inspection of Finances-IGF in its control mission to the OCC and the BCC in 2023, for a period from 2006 to 2024 and recommended to the Government to give them a definitive destination
To do this, the Minister of Foreign Trade put forward a series of proposals for recovery for the benefit of the public treasury with a view to their allocation to various projects which coincide with the Government program.
The Government recommended the Minister of Foreign Trade to contact the Minister of State, Minister of Justice in order to trace all these fraudulent cases which cause significant revenue to escape the public treasury, with a view to taking exemplary sanctions, indicates the report of the Council of Ministers.
