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On 11 June 1975 several military officers were arrested in what became known as the coup monte et manque.

Amongst those arrested were Générals Daniel KATSUVA wa Katsuvira, Land Forces Chief of Staff, UTSHUDI Wembolenga, Commandant of the 2nd Military Region at Kalemie ; FALLU Sumbu, Military Attaché of Zaïre in Washington, Colonel MUDIAYI wa Mudiayi, the military attaché of Zaïre in Paris, the military attache in Brussels, a paracommando battalion commander, and several others.

The regime alleged these officers and others ( including Mobutu's civil secrétaire particulier ) had plotted the assassination of Mobutu, high treason, and disclosure of military secrets, among other offences.

The alleged coup was investigated by a revolutionary commission headed by Boyenge Mosambay Singa, at that time head of the Gendarmerie.

Writing in 1988, Michael Schatzberg said the full details of the coup had yet to emerge.