Congo’s Former Health Minister Detained Amid Ebola Funds Probe
- Oly Ilunga accused of embezzlement, planning to flee country
- Ebola outbreak in Congo has killed more than 2,000 people
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Oly Ilunga, a former Democratic Republic of Congo health minister, was taken into custody and questioned on Saturday under suspicion of embezzling public funds allocated to tackling the country’s Ebola outbreak.
Police accused Ilunga, who was banned from leaving the country on Aug. 30, of planning to flee Congo for the neighboring Republic of Congo, his lawyers, Guy Kabeya and Willy Ngashi, said in a statement late on Saturday. Accused of having embezzled about $4.3 million of public funds, he was arrested, interrogated and then placed into custody, they said.