比利时联邦检察官办公室证实，比利时警方在比利时总统菲利克斯·齐塞克迪的家人名下的多处房产进行了搜查，此举是针对其涉嫌通过该国矿业部门获取私人利益的调查的一部分。
Police have searched several properties in Belgium belonging to family members of Democratic Republic of Congo's President Félix Tshisekedi, as part of an investigation into suspected personal enrichment from the country’s mining sector.
比利时联邦检察官办公室表示，周三在布鲁塞尔以及比利时首都周边的两个省份同时进行了多次搜查。
The Belgian federal prosecutor’s office confirmed that several searches were conducted simultaneously on Wednesday in Brussels and the two provinces surrounding the Belgian capital.
该办公室提到，该案件源于2025年7月提交的一起洗钱指控，尽管案件范围更广，涉及与矿业活动相关的腐败、挪用公款和金融犯罪的指控。
The office referred to a money-laundering complaint filed in July 2025, although the case is broader in scope, involving accusations of corruption, embezzlement and financial offences linked to mining activities.
2025年7月初，刚果民主共和国（DRC）卡坦加地区的几家非政府组织以及国有矿业公司Gécamines的四名前董事向比利时联邦检察官办公室提交了针对齐塞克迪家庭成员的投诉。
In early July 2025, several NGOs in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and four former directors of Gécamines, the state-owned mining company, filed a complaint with the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office against members of Tshisekedi’s family.
他们指控这些家庭成员在卢阿拉巴省和上卡坦加省非法开采矿产并掠夺矿产资源。
They accuse them of illegally exploiting mines and plundering mineral resources in Lualaba and Haut-Katanga provinces.
联合国小组寻求遏制全球争夺关键矿物过程中出现的矿业滥用行为。该投诉在比利时提交，因为案件中被点名的九名家庭成员拥有比利时国籍。
UN panel seeks to stem mining abuses in global rush for critical minerals The complaint was filed in Belgium, as nine of the family members named in the case hold Belgian nationality.
检察官办公室尚未公布周三被搜查房产的所有者身份。投诉中点名的总统家庭成员包括他的妻子、母亲和兄弟。总统本人未直接牵涉此次搜查。
The prosecutor’s office has not identified the people whose properties were searched on Wednesday. The members of the president's family named in the complaint include his wife, mother and brother. The president himself is not directly implicated in the searches.
总统家庭否认了这些指控，其律师称这些指控“完全毫无根据、虚假且具有诽谤性”。
The president’s family has rejected the allegations, with lawyers describing them as “entirely unfounded, false and defamatory”.
提出此案的集体发言人让-皮埃尔·穆特巴 alleges 当局挪用了称为尾矿的采矿废料，并称可能有数十亿美元被从国库中转移出去。
Jean-Pierre Muteba, spokesperson for the collective that brought the case, alleged that authorities had misappropriated mining waste, known as tailings, and that billions of dollars may have been diverted from the public treasury.
刚果民主共和国（DRC）反对派谴责在因宪法修改引发的抗议中出现的暴力行为。根据投诉，任何被发现挪用的资金都应被收回，并用于支持刚果民主共和国的发展。
DRC opposition condemns violence at protests over constitutional changes According to the complaint, any funds found to have been misappropriated should be recovered and used to support the DRC’s development.
刚果民主共和国是全球最大的钴生产国，钴是制造可充电电池的关键矿物，包括用于电动汽车的电池，但该国矿业部门长期面临腐败指控以及收入管理和分配缺乏透明度的问题。
The DRC is the world’s top producer of cobalt, a critical mineral used in rechargeable batteries, including those in electric vehicles, but the country’s mining sector has long faced allegations of corruption and a lack of transparency as to how revenues are managed and distributed.