Document leaks in 2016 revealed that she is a part-owner of a major Congolese telecom company through offshore subsidiaries.
For this reason, little is known about Kabila's early years, but her brother has claimed that he was born in the village of Hewa Bora (Sud-Kivu) [fr] in the Fizi region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, but it has also been alleged that the twins were actually born in Tanzania.
[1] Jaynet Kabila first became publicly prominent in 2011 when she was elected as a deputy to the Congolese National Assembly, representing Kalemie as an independent.
[5] On 3 April 2016, the Panama Papers investigative reporting project revealed that Kyungu hired Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca to create a company called Keratsu Holding Limited in Niue on 19 June 2001, just a few months after her brother became president.
[3] According to the documents released, Kyungu was a co-director of Keratsu Holding Limited with Congolese businessman Kalume Nyembwe Feruzi,[6] the son of a close ally of Kyungu's father, Laurent-Désiré Kabila.