On the evening of Wednesday, September 21, an advisor to the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo was taken to prison on suspicion of corruption and influence peddling.

According to an AFP report, it was after several hours of hearings at the prosecutor's office that Vidiye Tshimanga Tshipanda, an advisor to the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was taken to prison on suspicion of corruption and influence peddling.According to AFP, Vidiye Tshimanga Tshipanda, an advisor to the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, suspected of corruption and influence peddling, was placed under provisional arrest warrant. Théodore Ngoy, one of his lawyers, said he was taken to Makala, the capital's large prison. In the presence of a hundred or so of his supporters who were trying to protest in the precincts of the general prosecutor's office near the Court of Appeal of Kinshasa-Gombe where he had been summoned, Vidi Vidiye Tshimanga was escorted by two police jeeps after more than seven hours of hearing. According to Ngoy, the hearing revolved around "the video edited and directed with alleged investors that has circulated on social networks.