The head of the Secretariat of the Technical Secretariat for Electoral Administration (STAE) in the Nampula district is facing charges for selling voter registration cards to a mobile phone company.

The 31-year-old is part of a group of 27 citizens, including a Vodacom employee, arrested in March following the dismantling of a clandestine SIM card registration center in the Namicopo district, in the city and province of Nampula.

After the raid by the National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) in March, the man now in custody took refuge in the district of Mossuril. Now in SERNIC custody, he confesses to the crime.

The individual claimed to have done the business of selling voter registration cards at least twice, in exchange for 500 meticais. "I didn't know what he used the cards for," he told the press.

On the other hand, SERNIC presented four citizens who wanted to sell human bones for up to one million meticais, stolen from a grave in the Ribáuè district.

In that district, about three months ago, a woman with pigmentation problems was kidnapped. SERNIC is therefore working to determine whether there is any connection between the cases.

Seven people from the Murrapaniua neighborhood have also been arrested in connection with the beating to death of a 31-year-old man, on suspicion of belonging to a group of thugs in the neighborhood. (Source: Notícias e RM)