{"id":422402,"date":"2011-05-11T14:56:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T14:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/11\/drc-rebel-held-in-nairobi-over-smuggled-gold\/"},"modified":"2011-05-11T14:56:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T14:56:46","slug":"drc-rebel-held-in-nairobi-over-smuggled-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/11\/drc-rebel-held-in-nairobi-over-smuggled-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC Rebel Held in Nairobi Over Smuggled Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"23.1206140351\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/nation180.jpg\" alt=\"The Nation (Nairobi)\" title=\"Visit The Nation (Nairobi)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>11 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Nairobi \u2014 Kenya police have arrested a Democratic Republic of Congo rebel commander over the 2.5 tonne gold haul smuggled into the country.<\/p>\n<p>The man, identified by the flying squad as Jean Claude Mudeke Kabamba, is expected in court Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He is believed to be a commander with the Mai Mai rebel movement.<\/p>\n<p>A joint team was formed in March to intensify the search for the illegal gold consignment.<\/p>\n<p>The move followed a meeting between President Kibaki and DRC President Joseph Kabila in Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>They met after weeks of a fruitless search for the gold worth Sh8 billion, stolen from DRC in January for export to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The valuable metal is said to be smuggled through Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The governments of Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo have established a joint team to investigate the alleged trade in illegal gold.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team will work closely with detectives in the two countries who had already begun investigations,&#8221; said a statement from the president&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105110919.html\" title=\"DRC Rebel Held in Nairobi Over Smuggled Gold\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DRC Rebel Held in Nairobi Over Smuggled Gold<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 11 May 2011 Nairobi \u2014 Kenya police have arrested a Democratic Republic of Congo rebel commander over the 2.5 tonne gold haul smuggled into the country. The man, identified by the flying squad as Jean Claude Mudeke Kabamba, is expected in court Thursday. He is believed to be a commander with the Mai Mai rebel movement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DRC Rebel Held in Nairobi Over Smuggled Gold - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/11\/drc-rebel-held-in-nairobi-over-smuggled-gold\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"DRC Rebel Held in Nairobi Over Smuggled Gold - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"11 May 2011 Nairobi \u2014 Kenya police have arrested a Democratic Republic of Congo rebel commander over the 2.5 tonne gold haul smuggled into the country. 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