Banking experts said on Saturday, January 7, 2021, that a gap of $11 million was announced after the transit accounts. Following this announcement, the Central Bank of Congo (BCC) is invited to monitor Equity-BCDC, the second commercial bank in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

After migration operations dictated by the acquisition of the oldest Congolese bank, the new bank said in a press release that it noted a gap of more than 11 million US dollars in its transit accounts. Indeed, the Congolese banker Noël Tshiani, a former World Bank executive, mentioned that “this situation demonstrates that internal fraud exists. The BCC must send a monitoring team to Equity-BCDC without delay.” For him, “losses have been consumed and they must be fully supplied, an investigation organized and open to the close supervision of the BCC.”

For its part, Equity-BCDC has reassured itself that there was no difference in customer deposits and the strength of its assets. “As an institution, we hold ourselves to the highest standards of accountability and transparency. That's why we're making this information public,” she said.