MISA-Mozambique will be closely monitoring the proceedings surrounding the death of journalist João Chamusse, the institution's president, Jeremias Langa, revealed this morning in Maputo. He was speaking to journalists moments after submitting a petition on crimes against journalists to the Public Prosecutor's Office. "MISA is going to be an assistant in this process, of...
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Municipalities: MDM presses Public Prosecutor's Office to investigate criminal evidence in elections
The local elections in Mozambique are being heavily criticized by various opposition parties and civil society, who are denouncing fraud in the vote. The president of the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM), the third largest parliamentary party, went to the Attorney General's Office (PGR) on Wednesday to "put pressure" on the Public Prosecutor's Office to investigate...
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CSM expels Prosecutor and sanctions other justice officials
A public prosecutor in Maputo has been expelled from the staff of the Public Prosecutor's Office for facilitating the release of an imprisoned defendant. The Superior Council of the Judiciary of the Public Prosecutor's Office also sanctioned other staff, according to a statement from the Superior Council of the Judiciary of the Public Prosecutor's Office. In addition to the expulsion of the prosecutor, magistrates and...
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Public Prosecutors expel, fire and demote magistrates
The Attorney General of the Republic, Beatriz Buchili, revealed this morning in Maputo that the Superior Council of the Judiciary of the Public Prosecutor's Office has expelled, dismissed and demoted four magistrates due to irregularities in procedural procedures found during inspections. Speaking at the Assembly of the Republic as part of the presentation of the report on the state of the Administration of Justice...
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Public Prosecutor applies sanction of expulsion to a magistrate for favoring the release of an accused
The Superior Council of the Public Prosecutor's Office has decided to sanction the dismissal of a magistrate and the expulsion of four bailiffs and an assistant bailiff. According to a press release from the institution, quoted by the newspaper Domingo, the magistrate in question is a first class prosecutor, from the...
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Errors in the 6th grade book: PGR requests an audit of the contracts
Almost a year after the scandal over the errors in 6th grade textbooks, the Attorney General's Office (PGR), in a press release seen by MZNews, wants an internal audit of the contracts signed. The PGR press release states that "as is already in the public domain, at the beginning of the school year,...
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PGR takes four individuals to the dock for kidnappings
Four individuals, who are already in pre-trial detention, were charged last week with the crimes of kidnapping, criminal association and money laundering and the case has already been referred to the Maputo City Judicial Court. The information was released last Friday by the Central Office for Combating Organized and Transnational Crime....
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Hidden Debts: Know all the criminal charges against the defendants
The reading of the sentences of the 19 defendants implicated in the Undeclared Debts (Dívidas não Ocultas), which caused an embezzlement of more than 2.2 billion from the Mozambican state, began today (Wednesday 30) in the Supreme Court tent, installed on the grounds of the Maximum Security Prison in Machava (B.O), in Maputo. According to the judge in the case,...
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PGR appreciates the strengthening of the Public Prosecutor's Office competencies in the fight against organized crime
The Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), Beatriz Buchile, welcomed the recent revision of the organic law of the Public Ministry that culminated with the strengthening of the institution to fight organized crime in particular terrorism. Buchile was speaking this morning at the opening of the Regional Meeting of the Public Ministries and Criminal Investigation Police of the countries...
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No political will to stop human trafficking in Mozambique
Investigators from the Public Ministry and civil society consider that the absence of a National Action Plan to combat human trafficking reflects the lack of political will to deal with this type of crime in Mozambique and justifies all the inefficiency that is registered in this area. Researcher Inácio Mussanhane told VOA...