Murderer deported from Thailand – AIM report

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Murderer deported from Thailand – AIM report

9:55 CAT | 01 Aug 2018

Photo: touristpolice.go.th

Mozambique’s most notorious murderer and fugitive, Momad Assife Abdul Satar (“Nini”), has been deported from Thailand according to a report from the French news agency, AFP.

The Deputy Commissioner of Thailand’s tourist police Major-General Surachate Hakparn told AFP “he was extradited at midnight (Tuesday) on a flight to Kenya”, for onward travel to Mozambique.

The police detained Satar in Bangkok on 25 July in response to an international arrest warrant issued by Mozambique’s Attorney General’s Office (PGR) in April 2017 in connection with the wave of kidnappings that had shaken Mozambican cities since 2011.

Satar was on parole when he left the country in 2014. He was granted permission to travel to receive medical treatment in India but made no attempt to go there. The AFP report states he arrived in Thailand three years ago, shortly after leaving Mozambique.

Under the terms of the parole, Satar was released from Maputo top security prison where he was serving a 24-year sentence for the murder of the country’s top investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso. It was granted on the specious grounds he had shown “good behaviour”.

The Attorney General’s Office has been investigating Satar’s role in kidnappings and he has been named on the charge sheets of two cases opened in 2017. Based on this, the PGR successfully requested in April last year that his parole be revoked.

According to a PGR statement in April 2017, “it was found that the accused, Momad Assife Abdul Satar, formed a criminal organisation with the purpose of kidnapping Mozambican citizens so that later large amounts of money in ransom could be demanded”.

His return to Mozambique means he will be put back in prison to serve the rest of his sentence for the Cardoso murder. He will also face trial over the kidnapping charges.

Satar’s arrest is part of a crackdown by the Thai authorities on foreign criminals. Major-General Surachate Hakparn told AFP that “we will not allow foreign criminals to use Thailand as a base for their operations”.

According to an earlier statement from the Attorney General’s Office, it had worked with the National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) and their counterparts in other countries to track Satar to Thailand.

Source: AIM