Moïse Katumbi Chapwe

Who is Moïse Katumbi Chapwe?

Moïse Katumbi Chapwe is a Congolese businessman and politician. He is the governor of the Katanga Province, located in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was the first elected governor of the province and he voted for the first time during that election.

Katumbi is the younger brother of Raphael Katebe Katoto, also a Congolese businessman, now living in Belgium.

In the year he became governor, Katumbi began discussions to resolve the Kalukundi Mine ownership dispute of Africo Resources, Ltd, a Canadian mining company with a significant presence in the Katanga province.

He is the owner of TP Mazembe football club which has won the CAF Champions League on numerous occasions.

On 31 January 2014, the Belgian weekly Marianne Belgique published a story exposing Moïse Katumbi as being the owner of a secret offshore company called GKMIC S.A., set up in Panama in November 2006.