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2:42 CAT | 27 May 2016
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Three Mozambicans go on trial today, May 27, in separate cases in Barberton in the South African province of Mpumalanga.
Two were arrested with millions of dollars, euros and rands in cash trying to enter South Africa from Maputo in December 2015 and are on conditional bail. The judge in the case said yesterday afternoon that the matter could be transferred to the Supreme Court, because it involves a large sum of money and presents a complex picture of organized crime.
The third Mozambican was arrested in March last year with hard drugs weighing 50 kg hidden in his car’s fuel tank. The man appeared in court yesterday to request bail, but soon after the start of the hearing, the case was postponed to today at the request of his defence team. The accused man is likely to paroled.
Two other Mozambicans have been arrested in Mpumalanga for possession of drugs, one in Bushbuckridge and the other in Ermelo. The pair allegedly had Mozambican passports, which the local police have asked the Consulate of Mozambique in Nelspruit to verify.
South African migration officials are continuing to reject emergency travel documents issued in Mozambique and were preventing Mozambican citizens carrying them from entering South Africa yesterday.
Source: VOA Portugues
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