producer jdk decor says part of papa's troubles with ngulu came from his blind trust to people around him to invite guests  on the list and those people were not honest and added ngulu's and  once in paris there was some people papa did not even know and him jdk neither

producer jdk decor says part of papa's troubles with ngulu came from his blind trust to people around him to invite guests  on the list and those people were not honest and added ngulu's and  once in paris there was some people papa did not even know and him jdk neither

What complicated his case was that it was happening for many years. Unless he was that oblivious for years, then he knew exactly what went on. The French court said that made like around $700 thousand because he was directly or indirectly responsible for 200 illegal immigrants entering France & Beligum 

Early on it was a few at a time, but Wemba got greedy and also he had to pay for his huge 80 person band, so kept adding more and more people as fake musicians.

Six months ago French police began investigations when 200 Congolese arrived in Paris saying they were Papa Wemba's musicians. They later vanished.

A similar case occurred in Belgium and further questioning of the people revealed that they had in fact each paid 3,500 euros($4,000) for their passage.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3497837.stm

I think that Congolese artists were snitched eachother because that ngulu-phenonenon started in already in the 80's.  But yeah they started to exagerate because first they were bringing only close friends, family and staffmembers. But then it became a real busniess from the mid 90s with them bringing 50, 70 people and Chef d'Orchestre, Staffmembers and main stars of the band also putting their people on the tour list with also ading their shegues who were supporting them, saying rivals and doing nasty jobs from them. Some bandleaders were scamming people. Which led to many problems so was Nyoka Longo arrested in 2002 after his Zenith and wasn't able to return until 2009, because that a man sued him in Kinshasa. Werrason  who was arrested in 2002, after that a woman sued hi, but he was so lucky  and was after that not able to get visa's 2 years. Bozi Boziana who was arrested in 2001. It also led indirectly for the combattans, which started in 2006.