Mathias Dzon

Mathias Dzon (born 1947[1]) is a Congolese politician who served in the government of the Republic of the Congo as Minister of Finance from 1997 to 2002.

According to Dzon, the clothes were injected while in his suitcase at the Maya-Maya Airport as he prepared to fly to an International Monetary Fund conference in Washington, DC.

The clothes subsequently changed color, were tested at a laboratory in the United States, and were found to contain a toxic substance.

[17] The newspaper Le Choc reported on 20 July 2004 that Dzon, together with three other current or former ministers, had been barred from leaving the country without Sassou Nguesso's approval due to suspicions that they had misused public funds.

[22] In an interview with the African Press Agency in September 2008, Dzon said that Congo-Brazzaville needed "radical change", arguing that the country's high level of economic growth was not improving the living standards of ordinary people or state of infrastructure.

[1] On 10 July 2009, two days before the presidential election, Dzon (who was considered the most important opposition candidate) and five other candidates called for the election to be delayed, claiming that the electoral lists were deeply flawed and included people who were not eligible to vote, as well as people who did not exist at all.

"[26] He also criticized the government for spending money on the independence celebration while the people endured continuing poverty and deprivation.

[25] On 5 June 2014, Dzon complained in a press conference that the government was mistreating him by refusing to allow him to leave the country, vowing to take the matter to international courts.

He said that he had been barred from leaving the country on the previous day in order to have a medical check-up and visit family in France.