The National Migration Service (SENAMI) is refusing to comply with a judge's order to issue passports to attorney Alexandre Chivale.

Chivale is an alleged collaborator of the State Information and Security Service (SISE) and represented António Carlos do Rosário, Maria Inês Moiane and Elias Moiane in the Hidden Debts case. As a result, he was removed from the case and prevented from representing the three defendants. However, he was also made a declarant in the same case. A summons was issued for him to appear in court and make a statement. However, due to an alleged assassination order, he left the country in 2021, while the Hidden Debts trial was taking place. He never made a statement. It was understood that he was evading notice, since even his subordinates in the office refused to receive the notice to appear in court. As a result, the court opened contempt proceedings against Chivale.

As early as May 2022, an arrest warrant was issued for Chivale to make a statement in custody. However, due to alleged procedural defects in the processing of documents between the Ka,Mpfumo Judicial Court and the Public Prosecutor's Office, the case against Chivale - who was never formally informed that he had been constituted a defendant - came to an end. Strangely, notes the newspaper Mozambique ChannelThe same court that criticized the Public Prosecutor's Office for resurrecting the case when it had already ended, scheduled the trial of the disobedience case for July 22, 2024, so that it could then "be brought into custody for the trial of the Hidden Debts case", which has already ended.

Among other legal proceedings, the fact in question is that Alexandre Chivale's passport has expired. This led him to make an inglorious attempt to renew it, as he learned from SENAMI that he had to wait for replies from the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Court to see whether or not he was prevented from being issued with a passport because of the legal proceedings, including the arrest warrant against him.

As the weeklyThe 6th Section of the Maputo Judicial Court informed the Maputo City Prosecutor's Office that no passport ban had been imposed on Alexandre Chivale.

In addition to the above, another letter was issued to SENAMI explaining that there were no reasons why Alexandre Chivale could not be issued with a passport. Even so, he was not issued with a new passport.