Former South African President Jacob Zuma has accused his successor, Cyril Ramaphosa, of contempt of court for failing to appear in court, in a case brought by Zuma himself against the current President. The former president of South Africa has decided to file a lawsuit against the current South African head of state, Cyril Ramaphosa, for failing to react...
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Tropigália withdraws from lawsuit against its PCA
Product distribution company Tropigália is distancing itself from a court case involving its Chairman of the Board of Directors (CEO), Adolfo Correia. Tropigália's CEO was arrested last Friday in connection with a previously undisclosed case of alleged fraud against a foreign businesswoman involving large sums of money. Read more...
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Anti-Corruption Office opens case to investigate corruption schemes at LAM
The Central Office for Combating Corruption (GCCC) has opened two investigation files into different episodes surrounding the company Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique (LAM). The cases also include corruption schemes involving illegal payments via POS. Domingo newspaper reports that the first case, numbered 06/11/P/GCCC/2023, was filed in January...
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Local elections: Constitutional Council rejects Renamo's appeal and orders case closed
The Constitutional Council (CC) has dismissed the Renamo party's appeal on the grounds that it had not found any evidence of falsity in the minutes and notices presented by the National Electoral Commission regarding the sixth local elections on October 11, 2023. On November 29, the Renamo party filed a...
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Prosecutor's office prosecutes child criminals for stealing computer equipment
The Provincial Prosecutor's Office in Manica has brought charges against four children for stealing computer equipment from its premises. The minors are between 12 and 16 years old, and they are accused of stealing a computer, a flash drive and a cell phone. The chief prosecutor in the city of Chimoio, Remígio Guiamba, is currently...
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Mozambique escapes payment of 100 million dollars in dispute with Indian company
Mozambique has won a dispute against the Indian company Patel Engineering Ltd (PEL) at the United Nations Permanent Court of Arbitration, seeking a payment of 100 million dollars. The facts of this case date back to 2011, when PEL and the Mozambican government signed a Memorandum of Understanding regarding a potential rail-port project for...
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Manica: Criminals steal computers and files from the Anti-Corruption Office
Criminals broke into the Provincial Office for Combating Corruption in Manica and stole computers and criminal files. The crime was allegedly carried out by an alleged agent of the Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) in collusion with a military officer. According to a report in the newspaper "O País", it all started when, at around 7pm last Monday, a...
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Bóer bean case: Court rejects PGR's decision to close case
The Nacala-Porto court has decided not to follow the Mozambican Attorney General's Office (PGR), which had ordered the case over the dispute between RGL and the ETG conglomerate over the export of cowpeas to India to be closed. In an order dated January 15, signed by Deputy Attorney General Amabelia Chuquela, of the Specialized Department for...
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Justice officials accused of involvement in Matola kidnapping
The Central Office for Combating Organized and Transnational Crime accuses an agent from the National Criminal Investigation Service and an official from a justice department in Maputo of being involved in the kidnapping of a businessman in the Fomento neighbourhood, in the city of Matola. The kidnapping took place in an economic establishment in December last year....
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Renamo takes criminal action against Televisão de Moçambique
The Renamo party, through its front-runner in Maputo city, Venâncio Mondlane, reported Televisão de Moçambique (TVM) to the Attorney General's Office (PGR) on Monday for having "maliciously" reported election results from several municipalities in the country "while they were still awaiting announcement and publication by the competent bodies". TVM published the results of several...