Kabila stood down in January after 18 years in power in which he stayed two years beyond his constitutional maximum term in office.
He handed on to opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi in the country's first peaceful political transition since independence from Belgium in 1960.Katumbi, a wealthy businessman born to a Greek businessman father and a Congolese mother, tried to return last August to file his bid for the December presidential elections.
Katumbi and fellow opposition heavyweight Jean-Pierre Bemba, who was also barred from running, backed opposition candidate Martin Fayulu.Katumbi has his power base in the mining province of Katanga, in the southeast of the vast country, where he was previously governor.In June 2016, a court in Katanga's provincial capital, Lubumbashi, handed him a three-year jail term in absentia for alleged property fraud, with the instruction that he be arrested immediately if he set foot in the country.
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