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A Congolese investment firm shifted tens of millions of dollars in misappropriated funds through a bank that shared "extensive links" with relatives and associates of Congo's former President Joseph Kabila, according to independent research. The firm, Kwanza Capital, launched in June 2014 as a quasi-investment bank operating out of a nondescript "commercial garage" in the Congolese capital of Kinshasa, according to a 49-page report published Wednesday by the Sentry, an advocacy group that primarily investigates corruption and illicit finance in Africa. But Kwanza's founder, prominent Congolese entrepreneur Pascal Kinduelo, shared links with then-President Kabila's sister, Gloria Mteyu, and sister-in-law, Aneth...