Salt Lake City – Three Americans Repatriate to the United States of Congo They were accused Wednesday by the United States Department of Justice to organize an elaborate coup attempt destined to overthrow the African Nation government.
A fourth man alleged by prosecutors as an expert in bomb -manufacturing was also accused of helping the plot.
The complaint arises from the set of accusations that turned out that three of the defendants were arrested in the Congo and received death sentences that were then switched for perpetual chain punishments.
In the culmination of a long -term FBI investigation, the Department of Justice accused men of providing training, weapons, teams and other support to a rebel army that formed to try to overthrow the government last year.
Among the three Americans were Marcel Malanga, 22, son of the opposition figure Christian Malanga, who directed the frustrated coup attempt that attacked the presidential palace in Kinshasa. The old Malanga, who was broadcast live from the palace during the attempt, was later murdered while resisting the arrest, the Congolese authorities said.
Prosecutors say that the target of the plot was to establish a new government known as the new Zaire and install Christian Malanga as its president. The young Malanga identified himself as the “Chief of Cabinet of the Army of Zaire” and acted as leader of the rebel forces, according to judicial documents.
The defendants Marcel Malanga, Tyler Thompson, 22, and Benjamin Zalman-Polun, 37, were initially sentenced to death, but that was switched by life imprisonment before his return to the United States, he was expected to make their first appearance in the court in Brooklyn. Joseph Peter Moesser, 67, had to appear in Salt Lake City on Thursday.
