April 5.
The auction was held as scheduled in Kinshasa.
The form of secret bidding used this time could be described as quite 'creative', but to carry out targeted 'interest transfer', this method was the habitual practice in the 'industry'.
Otherwise, if it were an open bid.
Too many people would be hard to control.
As for being suspected by the public of backroom deals, they were not afraid, as suspicion was always just suspicion. When officials spoke, reasons were never an issue, especially since this time, the auction was neither reported nor widely known, yet many participated.
It almost covered all major interest groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Even if many from Moi's side couldn't get a share here, the thought of the four billion US dollars in initial funding not yet approved by Congress, still sitting with the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
They wouldn't dare to utter a single word of dissent.
Thus.
