Mozambican businessman Momade Assife Abdul Satar, better known as Nini Abdul Satar, escaped an assassination attempt, at the Maximum Security Penitentiary, better known as "B.O.", Maputo.

According to STV and the portal O País, the raid against Nini Satar took place about a month ago.

While the TV channel advanced today that the Attorney General's Office (PGR) aborted the assassination attempt, the portal wrote that the National Penitentiary Service (SERNAP) and Nini's personal security prevented the act.

The TV channel, citing sources close to the Mozambican businessman, said that initially the sources suspected that the PGR had designed the maneuver to assassinate Nini Satar, but later the said sources quashed that expectation or speculation once they claimed that the same PGR had helped thwart the assassination attempt.

"Sources close to Nini Satar suspect that the plan was designed in collusion with some inmates of the same jail," reads the portal.

In connection with the case, two officers of the Republic of Mozambique Police (PRM), assigned to the Rapid Intervention Unit (UIR), are being held.

Nini Abdul Satar was sentenced to 24 years maximum sentence for being involved in the murder of journalist Carlos Cardoso on November 22, 2000. During the first half of his sentence he had good behavior, which earned him parole on September 5, 2014.

Nini Satar fled Mozambique that same year and was captured in Thailand on July 25, 2018, through an international arrest warrant issued by the OPG. At the time of his capture, he was using a forged passport in the name of Sahime Mohammad Aslam, his nephew. He was deported to Mozambique and is being held in the O.R.