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12:35 CAT | 27 Apr 2018
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Mozambique’s Attorney General’s Office (PGR) yesterday said that Mozambique had asked seven countries for information and cooperation in the matter of the so-called hidden debts and, noting that the speed of investigations depended on the cooperation of those states, reported that only one had responded.
“Of the seven countries from which we have requested information and cooperation, only one responded,” Beatriz Buchili yesterday told the Assembly of the Republic during the closing session of the report on the performance of the Attorney General’s Office in 2017.
Countries that have not yet responded to requests by the organs of Mozambican justice include states that nevertheless decided to cut their aid to the country following the discovery in 2016 of so-called hidden debts, Buchili added.
Without specifying which countries these were, the Attorney-General said that the speed of investigations into hidden debts depended on information from banks that lent money to Mozambique illegally and the companies that supplied the equipment bought with the money.
“Information-seeking activity in the countries where these supplier banks are based is subject to the rules and deadlines of those countries,” she said.
“We have no way to clarify the issue of public debt other than abiding by legally instituted procedures. Any other procedure will result in the evidence being invalid,” the PGR said.
On Wednesday, Buchili told parliament that preparatory investigation into criminal liability in the hidden debts affair continued, noting that justice organs were determined to enforce the law.
The hidden debts are linked to guarantees provided by the previous Mozambican government between 2013 and 2014 for loans of more than two billion Euros to a publicly owned fishing company and two others linked to maritime safety.
Source: Lusa
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