The Attorney General of the Republic, Beatriz Buchili, declared last Friday (21) that success in the fight against organized crime depends on the recovery of assets held by criminals. The attorney general was speaking in Maputo at the end of a meeting of the three specialized bodies under her office - the Central Office for Combating Corruption (GCCC), the...
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Beatriz Buchili defends recovering assets from criminals
The Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), Beatriz Buchili, on Tuesday defended the recovery of assets resulting from criminal activities, pointing to the need for cooperation between the institutions that fight crimes of an economic and financial nature. Speaking during the investiture of Ana Sheila Dias Marrengula as director of the Central Office for Asset Recovery...
"Speedy asset recovery can deter crimes," says Helena Kida
The Mozambican government considers the recovery of ill-gotten assets to be one of the best ways of deterring crime and avoiding investments with illegal gains. According to the Minister of Justice, Helena Kida, organized crime costs developing countries around 20 to 40 billion dollars every year. By...
Justice authorities recover about 290 million meticais from criminal acts
The justice authorities recovered the equivalent of 290 million meticais, in national and foreign currency, resulting from criminal acts, between the years 2015 and 2021. In the same period, 55 properties valued at about 30 million meticais were recovered in addition to eighty-two vehicles of different brands and models, also resulting from...
PGR prepares investigators for asset recovery
The sophistication of organized and trans-national criminality imposes on prosecutors, investigators from the National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) and staff of the Financial Intelligence Office of Mozambique (GIFIM), a better preparation to unravel money laundering schemes involving complex transaction networks and structures that allow concealment, concealment,...