- A private jet owned by a North Texas company has been impounded by the Congolese government in Central Africa, where officials say it was used to smuggle gold from rebel territories.
The Dallas Morning News reports the plane was leased by Southlake Aviation, based in suburban Dallas-Fort Worth, to a subsidiary of CAMAC International.
The company is owned by a Houston oil tycoon Kase Lawal, an appointee of President Barack Obama to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiation.
The jet's passengers and crews have been detained since Feb. 3, when the jet was seized before leaving the airport in Goma, on Congo's eastern border with Rwanda.
Congolese officials say the plane was loaded without about $20 million in gold and several million dollars in cash.
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