Former Health Minister Arrested For Embezzling Ebola Funds In DR Congo.
Former DR Congo health minister Oly Ilunga has been arrested over allegations he embezzled public funds to tackle the Ebola epidemic, police said on Saturday.
He is in custody due to “misdemeanors of the mismanagement of funds allocated to the Ebola response,” police spokesman Colonel Pierrot-Rombaut Mwanamputu told AFP.It comes after Ilunga was questioned in August as part of an inquiry into the management of funds to fight the outbreak, which has claimed more than 2,000 lives since August 2018.He stepped down after criticising plans by the UN’s World Health Organization to introduce a new, unlicensed vaccine to fight the epidemic.
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