Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals

May 20, 2020 at 1:41 pm #205386

Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals

Zero tolerance. Repressive machine activated. Thus, Célestin Tunda, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Justice, he warns the authors of anti-values falling within the sphere of cybercrime. He also promises criminal proceedings against the gravediggers of the DR brand image. Congo. In a press release, he instructed the Prosecutor’s Office to set in motion all the mechanisms at his fingertips, to deviate, in a serious manner, all these makers of false presidential orders into photographic images, edited, altered or falsified with official seals, before their publication abusive on social networks via the Internet. It also assimilates all the agents of the administrations and public services which, with disconcerting lightness, devote themselves to the publications on these same social networks, official documents bearing the seals and signatures of the members of the government or of the Presidency of the Republic. VPM Tunda recalls that the publication of such documents to an undifferentiated public when they were intended for processing in the official circuit, feeds the manipulation of opinion, borders on the breach of professional secrecy and security both for the function of their signatories only for the Congolese state, itself. It is time for that to end there. Because, from now on, the modern means of investigation as well as the Congolese legal arsenal at its disposal, are deployed to track the offenders until their last entrenchment, to crack down and apply sanctions to them commensurate with their harmful acts, as provided for by the laws of the Republic.

Democratic Republic of Congo

The Deputy Prime Minister

Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals

PRESS RELEASE

The Ministry of Justice and Keeper of the Seals notes with regret the proliferation of bad habits on the part of certain individuals and pharmacies to harm through rude montages; like the institutions of the Republic, political figures and some well-targeted private sector actors.

False presidential orders in photographic images, edited and modified, with official seals, are improperly published and disseminated on the Internet and in social networks.

It is the same, administrations, public services or their agents, who distribute on digital social networks, official documents bearing the seals and signatures of members of the Government or the Presidency of the Republic.

Especially since such documents are covered by confidentiality and are only intended for the persons and personalities concerned, their dissemination to an undifferentiated public poses serious problems of administrative ethics, manipulation of opinion, breach of professional secrecy and security both for the function of its signatories and for the State itself.

All of these harmful and reprehensible acts, especially of those who use the Internet and digital tools for the purpose of revealing correspondence secrets, constitute acts of cybercrime.

This is also the case for criminal acts of public online dissemination, such as sextortion (by blackmail or extortion of elements of a sexual nature), pornographic revenge (by wide dissemination of sextapes), production or scenic participation in child pornography , the falsification of documents by specific software, the mounting of images in particular by Photoshop or others in order to harm.

With regard to modern means of investigation and the Congolese legal arsenal at its disposal, the Ministry of Justice:

    reiterates its criminal policy of zero tolerance and instructs the Prosecutor’s Office to take action in the repression of all these counterparts of cybercrime;
    warns others as well as the cyber-connected citizens who participate in it;
    underlines that all the acts criticized here will be the subject of criminal proceedings.

The Ministry of Justice calls the attention of all state institutions to prepose reliable and professional people for the proper handling of the official mail processing circuit.

It is therefore incumbent on me to prevent the proliferation of official correspondence, as well as the shameless publication of files of any kind, which not only violates the privacy and honor of individuals, but also and above all the image of the country and the life of the whole nation.

Anyone involved in the cybercrime phenomena described above will know the rigor of the law and the judicial services.

Done in Kinshasa, May 15, 2020

Célestin Tunda ya Kasende