The police authorities in Nampula province, in the north of the country, have arrested at least four individuals aged between 24 and 34, accused of forging documents, including driving licenses, public school certificates, permits and identity cards.

According to the authorities, this practice has been recurrent in Nampula, and in the past it has also landed citizens in dungeons. The victims have always justified that they resorted to this means because of the delay they observed in the public services for obtaining driving licenses.

As reported by local news portal "Ikweli", one of the accused, who was named as the ringleader of the group, said that he was a professional construction technician and that the computer equipment recovered from his home belonged to him. However, he denies committing the crime and says he knows someone who is willing to facilitate the issuing of documents such as driving licenses at INATRO, the Nampula office.

The other members of the group, who, by the way, were mediators for the clients who were trying to obtain the letters, and who are also under arrest, include the self-appointed professional construction technician who posed as an INATRO employee in order to achieve his aims, which is why the victims easily fell into the trap.

Their arrest was the result of a tip-off. SERNIC, through its spokesperson Enina Tsinine, explained that "a complaint was received in which an individual had sought out an author to make it easier for him to obtain a driving license. But instead of facilitating the registration process for the system, he was given a driving license that cost him a sum of money and, feeling that he would be held responsible tomorrow, he came to our services and showed us the license."