DRC natural resources press review of Friday, September 13, 2013

" Illicit financial flows in the mining sector : the FEC reframing the debate " indicates the Potentiel daily reminder that the High Level Panel on illicit financial flows, in the DRC led by Thabo Mbeki, announced major leaks in the revenues collected in the mining sector . According to the Panel , only 15 % of the minerals mined in the country are reported to the tax authorities. A statement that did not leave indifferent the FEC , especially its section of Katanga which brews up to 80 % of mineral exports from the DRC. For mine operators , the problem in the sector is that the Congolese state can not regulate all revenue generated in mines. The newspaper gave the floor to the provincial president of the Federation of Enterprises of Congo ( FEC ), also authorized mining and quarrying, mining expert where it operates for more than a decade , Eric Monga who has challenged the finding made ​​by the panel , arguing that the companies in the sector , including Katanga as others operating in different provinces of the DRC, carry out their duties properly in taxes , duties and taxes paid to the state. He proved in black and white that mining companies are strongly controlled by the financial services of the State. For any fault, error or omission in the declaration, he says , they are very heavily penalized in terms of fines . And fines , he says , are enormous and evaluated in terms of hundreds of millions of dollars. So they have no interest , he says , nor to cheat or deceive . If there are problems in terms of collection of duties owed ​​to the State in the mining sector , he says , including tariffs for export, the causes lie in the dysfunctions that plague the state services , and the texts are clear about this . No , he says , illicit flows which mention is the panel can not be completely attributed to the mining companiesThe Phare newspaper speaking land banditry in the DRC reports that " the assets of the University of Kisangani is despoiled ." The tabloid emphasizing that public goods are shared and not private property , said that unfortunately, some Congolese , strong in their positions, do not hesitate to dispose of property belonging to the community. The latest victim of these vultures land , this is the University of Kisangani , yet a higher and university educational institution, the authorities powerless to attend so grinds , amputations and anarchic occupation of houses and land by unauthorized whose dignitaries African Republic .Until the provincial government of the Eastern Province put the order on the site of the University of Kisangani , radio Okapi reports that the provincial government plans to clean up the area of logging in Kisangani. This decision is expected to organize the system of issuing documents needed for logging . It should also prevent influence peddling by some authorities in the field