Benoît Lwamba | |
Birth Name: | Benoît Lwamba Bindu |
Birth Date: | 1945 7, df=y |
Birth Place: | Katanga Province, Belgian Congo, Belgium |
Death Place: | Brussels, Belgium |
Nationality: | Congolese |
Office: | President of the Constitutional Court of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Term Start: | 11 April 2015 |
Term End: | 27 June 2020 |
Office2: | First President of the Court of Cassation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Term Start2: | 12 June 2003 |
Term End2: | 23 November 2008 |
Benoît Lwamba (19 July 1945 – 17 January 2022) was a Congolese magistrate.[1]
He was First President of the Court of Cassation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2003 to 2008 and subsequently President of the Constitutional Court of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2015 to 2020. Since 2019, he had been subject to sanctions from the United States for his alleged involvement in corruption in the . Lwamba died in Brussels on 17 January 2022, at the age of 76.[2]