[3] On 30 December 2005 Aimée Kabila Mulengela was taken from her home in Kinshasa/Ngaliema by Special Services police and soldiers of the Military Detection of Anti-Homeland Activities (DEMIIAP) and detained for 52 days.

A report by the non-governmental organization "La voix des sans-voix" (VSV: Voice of the Voiceless) said her ex-husband Alain Mayemba Bamba ordered the detention, which would have been supported by Sifa Mahanya, mother of President Joseph Kabila.

[6] Aimée's brother, Etienne Taratibu Kabila, denounced the assassination the next day from his place of exile in South Africa, accusing the presidential guard of the killing.

[1] Floribert Chebeya, president of VSV, which was investigating the death, said he feared that the police were trying to put pressure on him by summoning him for a road accident that had happened almost a year earlier.

[9] The official story was that the two killers were simply thieves who had bought a gun from an army deserter or the police, and Aimée Kabila Mulengela had been shot accidentally.

[6] General Oleko, Provincial Inspector of Police in Kinshasa, said during a press briefing that the victim was not connected to the presidential family and that he did not recognise that she bore the name of Kabila.

[10] On 12 February 2013 the government spokesman and media minister Lambert Mende Omalanga said Etienne Kabila was involved in a conspiracy against the DRC that had been foiled by the South African authorities.

He said that Barracuda, having found that he had been tricked into investing large sums of money based on her assumed identity, had arranged to eliminate her physically on the night of 15 January 2008.