 In Lubumbashi, AMFI gave an "advance" of $51 million to finance their war and secure a date for future transactions.The deal was later cancelled in 1998 by Congo's state mining company Gecamines.AMFI financed the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (ADFL)'s military campaign to depose Mobutu, by providing its corporate jet to ADFL leader Laurent-Désiré Kabila, and was awarded a mine contract by Kabila even before he came to power.