The provinces of Maputo, Nampula, Cabo Delgado and Zambézia are part of the main heavy drug trafficking route in the country, whose protagonists are members of crime syndicates. The information was given yesterday, Wednesday (17), by the Minister of the Interior, Pascoal Ronda, on the first day of the session of questions to the government in Parliament....
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Son of former Guinea-Bissau president sentenced in US for drug trafficking
Malam Bacai Sanha Jr, son of the former president of Guinea-Bissau, Malam Bacai Sanha, was sentenced in the United States to 80 months (just over 6.6 years) in prison for drug trafficking, the US Department of Justice announced on Tuesday. According to the international press, Sanha Jr "Bacaizinho", 52,...
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Mozambican justice official arrested for international drug trafficking
An official from the Ministry of Justice, Constitutional and Religious Affairs, identified as Ana Salomé Jorge Massuanganhe, has been detained in India since January 8 for drug trafficking of an unspecified type and quantity. Massuanganhe is a private assistant to the deputy minister of the MJACR and spokesperson for the Council of Ministers, Filmão Suaze, who declined to comment on...
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Quelimane: More than 100 kg of sativa cannabis seized as it entered through the airport
The National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC), in Quelimane, seized more than 100 kilograms of Quelimane: More than 100 kg of cannabis sativa that entered through the airport from the Kingdom of Eswatini was seized, and points to the weakness in airport security for the drug's entry into the city. In the...
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Court sentences naval officer to 18 years in prison for drug trafficking
The Zambezia Provincial Court sentenced an army officer from the navy branch to 18 years in prison for trafficking drugs seized in Macuse, Namacurra district. According to RM, this is Lucas João. In fact, the judge said it had been proven that the two kilograms of methamphetamine were found on the boat...
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SERNIC deactivates four hectares of sativa cannabis plantation in Maputo
The National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) has shut down a plantation of around four hectares of cannabis sativa, in the town of Changalane, in the district of Namaacha, Maputo province. "This is an industrial production, because you can't say that two people can have a synchronized production as we can see here. They are...
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Four hundred million euros worth of cocaine found floating off Italian coast
Around 70 bales of cocaine, placed in "floating packages", inside a net that prevented them from being dispersed, and which had a light and location signaling device, were found in the sea off Sicily, Italy. The discovery was made by soldiers from the Catania provincial command of the Guardia di Finanza, off the...
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AR begins investigation into deputy's involvement in drug trafficking
On Monday, a Commission of Inquiry of the Assembly of the Republic (AR) began investigating the alleged involvement of a member of parliament in drug trafficking in Zambezia. In November 2022, Zambezia's National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) reported that a member of parliament was involved in drug trafficking, following the seizure of...
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Police detain Nigerian wanted in the Netherlands for drug trafficking
The Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) arrested a Nigerian wanted, since 2010, by the Dutch authorities for drug trafficking, announced yesterday a source of the National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC). The man fled the Netherlands in 2010 after being found with 23 kilos of cocaine, said quoted by Lusa, Hilário Lole, spokesman for SERNIC ...
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Nigeria makes largest ever drug seizure
Nigeria's National Drug Law Enforcement Agency seized 1.8 tons of cocaine at a warehouse in Lagos on Sunday. This is the largest drug seizure in the country and is valued at $278 million. The seizure happened in the Ikorodu area of Lagos as the cartel was preparing the...