The sixth section of the Nampula Provincial Court has sentenced two citizens to maximum sentences of 16 and 19 years in prison and a fine of more than three million meticais for selling hard drugs, including methamphetamine. The individuals were discovered by the National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) on November 19, 2021,...
The Provincial Prosecutor's Office in Cabo Delgado announced today that it has opened an investigation into the causes of the fire that occurred on April 14 in one of the warehouses located somewhere in the city of Pemba, where 80 kilograms of various drugs, seized at the beginning of this month in Mecufi, were stored. According to...
The number of criminal cases for drug trafficking in Mozambique rose by 44% in 2022 compared to the previous year, the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), Beatriz Buchili, announced this Wednesday in the Assembly of the Republic. According to the data presented, the total number of cases brought for drug trafficking rose from 716 in 2021 to 1,035...
The warehouse where 80 kilograms of various drugs were stored burned down last Friday in the city of Pemba, Cabo Delgado. These were 42 kilograms of cocaine, 34 of amphetamines and 4 of heroin seized recently when they were being transported in a Ford Ranger vehicle at the Murebué administrative post in the Mecúfi district of Cabo Delgado....
Mozambique is one of the main hubs for international drug trafficking. Experts fear that organized crime has captured the Mozambican state. "I used hard drugs, cocaine, heroin. I lived on the street. I stole. I lost a lung and was in hospital for seven months," says José Carlos. Recalling those moments is "like being stabbed",...
Political analysts consider that drugs are only a small fringe in the financing of terrorism in Cabo Delgado, but the security fragility generated by the conflict and the corruption of the political elite has facilitated drug barons. Mozambique's Criminal Investigation Service (Sernic) seized 80 kilograms of drugs and arrested a national in a...
The National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) recently arrested a 38-year-old Mozambican national, identified as A. Muarabo, in possession of 80 kilograms of "heavy" drugs, at the Murebue administrative post, in Mecufi, Cabo Delgado. He was presented to the press today, and according to Notícias,...
The Mozambique Republic Police (PRM) arrested six individuals on Tuesday in the district of Boane, Maputo province. They are five Mozambican citizens, including a father and three children, and a Tanzanian, accused of being drug traffickers. The accused are aged between 17 and 41, and were found in possession of...
Analysts say that the objective defined for the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) shows a worrying trend, which may indicate that it is only to wash the image of the suspect MP, because of the implications that a possible confirmation could bring for Frelimo, in power. After the denunciation made at the beginning of the month by the group...
Venâncio Mondlane, a member of the Assembly of the Republic (AR) from the Renamo parliamentary caucus, could face disciplinary proceedings from another parliamentary caucus. According to the newspaper "Dossier e Factos", the MP may be questioned by the Standing Committee and the Parliamentary Ethics Committee, but the reasons are not really clear....