Mail & Guardian: Exposing a Congolese bank’s dirty secrets

There was nothing particularly exceptional about the day that Gradi Koko’s life changed forever.

It was early 2018, and he was at his office. He was working in the Kinshasa branch of Afriland First Bank, in the upmarket Gombe district, near government buildings and embassies. Returning to his desk, he passed someone on their way to the restroom. It was a man who looked vaguely familiar, flanked by a security guard, coming from the office of the bank’s director-general…

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