The Budget Monitoring Forum (FMO) accuses the Mozambican Public Ministry of trying at all costs to protect those mainly responsible for the hidden debts estimated at 2.2 billion dollars. The civil society organization also reveals that during the trial that took place in Maputo and from which the reading of the...
The Public Ministry expelled two prosecutors and a bailiff assistant for corruption crimes, through a decision taken at the XIV Ordinary Session of the Plenary of the Supreme Council of the Magistracy of the institution. Among the expelled prosecutors, one was assigned to the Provincial Prosecutor's Office-Maputo and allegedly requested and received money to return,...
The Public Ministry says it has concluded with the instruction of the process related to the denunciation made by the relatives of Momade Assif Satar, better known as Nini Satar, about an alleged plan to assassinate him, in exchange for 40 million meticais. A statement from the Public Ministry said that the instruction culminated with the indictment of 5 of the...
The Public Ministry assumes that there were deviations in the management of Covid-19 funds, and that the fight against corruption is not making progress in the country. But the Center for Public Integrity (CIP) says that the lack of progress is due to the inoperativeness of public authorities, including the judiciary itself, in the fight against this evil,...
The Judicial Court of Maputo City ordered the release, on Friday (13), eight agents of the Customs of Mozambique, allegedly involved in a corruption scheme (tax fraud) of about 18.6 million meticais. A national portal writes that the defendants, whose identities remain secret, participated in the detour of that amount at the International Maritime Terminal of...
The two properties registered in the name of the company Anlaba Investimentos, located in a condominium in the Marginal area of Maputo city, titled by the defendant Gregório Leão, former director general of the State Information and Security Service (SISE), seized at the request of the Public Ministry, were sold in early 2019, shortly after the scandal became known...
The defendants in the case of Hidden Debts heard on Tuesday, in the first session of the hearing of the application for preventive seizure of assets, rejected the request by the Public Ministry (MP) for preventive seizure of property, which is alleged to have been acquired with the money from illegal loans. This is António Carlos do Rosário,...
The session to debate the request of the Public Ministry on the seizure of assets of the 19 defendants in the main case of Hidden Debts is scheduled to start at 10am today. The session, which is already going on, was postponed twice, and will take place after the High Court of Appeal of Maputo decided...
The former Minister of Labor, Helena Taipo, began her trial this Tuesday at the Judicial Court of Katembe, accused of participating in acts of corruption by receiving bribery money. The Public Prosecutor says there is enough evidence to justify the conviction of Helena Taipo, sometimes called "Iron Lady" when she was still...
The defense lawyers of the 19 defendants claimed on Monday that the Public Ministry failed to produce evidence of the charges against their constituents and therefore requested their acquittal of the crimes of which they are accused. The lawyers made the request to the Judicial Court of Maputo City on another day of the allegations...