The agent of the National Investigation Service (SERNIC), Galileu Lourenço Singano, accused of murdering the citizen identified as Elísio José Nhachungue, has had his two-year sentence converted into payment of a fine. According to the Center for Democracy and Human Rights (CDD), the SERNIC agent is the son of Lourenço Singano, a...
Nurses who are not registered with the Order of Nurses in Mozambique have 45 days to regularize their situation at the risk of being fined and even imprisoned in accordance with the law. The decision is contained in a communiqué from the Order of Nurses quoted by "O País" in which it sets a deadline of 45 days for all nurses to...
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) may impose a million-dollar fine on Portugal, which has not yet been calculated, as a result of its systematic failure to comply with the European directive on air quality. This, according to the Portuguese press, is linked to around 6,000 premature deaths a year in the country, particularly in the cities of...
Four insurance institutions have been fined two million meticais by the Insurance Supervision Institute of Mozambique, as part of its inspection of financial guarantees. Each of the insurers was fined 500,000 meticais due to infringements detected during the inspection of insurance activity and respective mediation. According to the...
The Bank of Mozambique (BM) has just fined Banco Comercial e de Investimento (BCI) around 135 million Meticais for accepting an alternative and indirect way of fulfilling a credit obligation. The punishment is also due to the undue exoneration of an institutional client from its credit responsibilities; the unfounded write-off of...
The Maputo Municipality, meeting in assembly, this week approved an increase in the fine for concrete transporters by another four thousand meticais, from the previous one thousand meticais to five thousand meticais. This is a fine to be paid for spilling concrete on public roads. The amount is multiplied by each linear meter of concrete...
Mining giant Rio Tinto has agreed to pay $28 million to a US court to end a fraud case in Mozambique. It was accused of hiding losses from its coal investment. According to the specialized press, which cites the decision of the Manhattan federal court on the lawsuit brought by the SEC,...
Fourteen mining companies have been fined by Mozambique's General Inspectorate of Mines for failing to declare the quality of the ores they produced in June, the inspectorate told Lusa today. The Inspector General of Mines at the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy, Obete Matine, said that the fines were the first imposed on mining operators for...
Depositing solid waste outside the appropriate place and/or burning it inside containers will now lead to a fine and criminal proceedings against those who do it, in the city of Chimoio, Manica province. The city's mayor explains that burning solid waste inside containers reduces the longevity of the...
As of Monday, Maputo City Council will be enforcing payment of the Municipal Vehicle Tax, known as Manifesto. According to the newspaper "O País", in addition to fines, drivers who have not paid may even have their vehicle documents seized. The Autarchic Vehicle Tax is intended to make taxpayers pay...