The Zambezia Provincial Prosecutor's Office says that there are three defendants in the criminal case over the controversial boat acquired by the Zambezia Directorate of Transport and Communications. The deal allegedly involves the company owned by the daughter of the provincial governor, Pio Matos, and cost the state coffers around ten million Meticais. From...
A few days ago, the Maputo City Court sentenced three defendants to 30 years in prison for their involvement in the kidnapping of a 56-year-old Mozambican citizen. According to a report in the newspaper Notícias, the court also handed down a sentence in the case, which took place in July 2023...
The trial of two defendants accused of kidnapping three people at the Mapinhane administrative post in the Vilankulo district of Inhambane began a few days ago at the Second Chamber of the Inhambane Judicial Court. According to the newspaper "O Pais", the defendants are also accused of first-degree murder, transportation and trafficking of firearms,...
Ten citizens, including magistrates and police officers, are accused by the Zambezia Public Prosecutor's Office of criminal association, failure to promote criminal proceedings and abuse of office, for having freed a Tanzanian drug trafficker in 2021. The case was opened in 2021, and the defendants are a public prosecutor, a judicial magistrate...
The Sixth Chamber of the Maputo City Judicial Court recently removed 10 properties from the management of the defendants in the "hidden debts" case. According to information provided by "Carta", these are properties that were seized in 2021 and were still being managed by the defendants as trustees. The decision was taken last week (on...
The Central Office for Combating Corruption (GCCC) announced in a press release on Thursday (09) the arrest of the former director of the National Institute for Land and Road Transport (INATTER), now INATRO-IP, and four other people linked to this entity. According to the GCCC, the defendants are accused of...
The "hidden debts" soap opera comes to an end with the conviction of 11 of the 19 defendants. Take a look back at the names mentioned in the case and some of the notable interventions in the trial of Mozambique's biggest corruption scandal. On August 23, 2021, the trial of the biggest financial scandal in Mozambique's history began, involving 19...
The court hearing the case of Mozambique's hidden debts decided yesterday that the assets of the 11 defendants convicted in the case, which it considered to be "proceeds of crime", should be forfeited to the state. Judge Efigénio Baptista ordered that Ndambi Guebuza, son of former President of the Republic Armando Guebuza, be stripped of property he acquired in Mozambique...
The judge in the case of Mozambique's hidden debts said in court on Saturday that he had not found "sufficient evidence" of the participation of eight of the 19 defendants in the case in any crime. Judge Efigénio Baptista was speaking during the fourth day of the reading of the sentence in the biggest corruption case in Mozambique's history. "There is no...
As of today, the verdicts in the most notorious case in Mozambican justice will be read out. Until Sunday, December 4, the 19 defendants on trial for the 2.2 billion dollar default will hear from Judge Efigénio Baptista, the hammer of justice that falls to each one. The sentence, to be handed down at the end...