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Jaynet Kabila

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Political party
  
Independent

Siblings
  
Constituency
  
Niece
  
Sifa Kabila

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Born
  
4 June 1971 (age 45)Fizi, Congo-Léopoldville(now Democratic Republic of the Congo) (
1971-06-04
)

Nephew
  
Laurent-Désiré Kabila Junior

Similar
  
Joseph Kabila, Zoé Kabila, Laurent‑Désiré Kabila, Olive Lembe di Sita, Moïse Katumbi

Jaynet Désiré Kabila Kyungu, (born 4 June 1971), is the daughter of Laurent-Désiré Kabila, the former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo and twin sister of Joseph Kabila, the current president. Kabila was elected as a member of the Parliament of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2011, the same year as her other brother Zoé Kabila. Document leaks in 2016 revealed that she is a part-owner of a major Congolese telecom company through offshore subsidiaries.

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Early life

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Janet Kabila and her twin brother, Joseph Kabila were born on 4 June 1971, the daughter of Sifa Mahayana and Laurent-Désiré Kabila. Although her father would eventually become president of the country, at the time of Janet Kabila's birth, Laurent Kabila was a struggling rebel leader at the nadir of his power. For this reason, little is known about Kabila's early years, but her brother has claimed that he was born in the village of Hewa Bora II in the Fizi region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, but it has also been alleged that the twins were actually born in Tanzania.

Career

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Janet Kabila first became publicly prominent in 2011 when she was elected as a deputy to the Congolese National Assembly, representing Kalemie as an independent.

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Despite her generally low profile, Kabila is a powerful figure in Congolese politics, as the owner of Congolese media conglomerate Digital Congo. and as of 2015 has been described as the most influential member of her brother's entourage.

Offshore holdings

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On 3 April 2016, the Panama Papers investigative reporting project revealed that Kyungu hired Panmanian law firm Mossack Fonseca to create a company called Keratsu Holding Limited in Niue on 19 June 2001, just a few months after her brother became president. According to the documents released, Kyungu was a co-director of Keratsu Holding Limited with Congolese businessman Kalume Nyembwe Feruzi, the son of a close ally of Kyungu's father, Laurent-Désiré Kabila.

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Keratsu Holdings owns a 19 percent stake in Congolese Wireless Network SPRL, which in turn has a 49 percent stake in Vodacom Congo SPRL.

References

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