The findings of the investigation were not immediately divulged, but junior foreign minister Tom Butime promised that the government will soon make the report public.
"We welcome the report and we shall study it and release it to the public soonest," Butime told reporters after receiving the report.
"We are going to send a copy to the United Nations," he added.
A UN-appointed team of experts accused 54 people - including more than 20 senior military and political officials in Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe and the DRC itself - of leading "elite networks" that exploited the DRC's minerals, timber and wildlife during the war in DRC, which broke out in 1998.
The report recommended imposing sanctions on them and financial restrictions on 29 companies, four based in Belgium, which it said were helping to run what it called a "multibillion-dollar corporate theft."
The Ugandan investigation team was headed by Justice David Porter.
"We were supposed to report to the foreign ministry in confidence and that is what we have done," said Porter after handing his 211-page report to Butime - Sapa-AFP
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