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5:30 CAT | 11 May 2017
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The Mozambican Attorney-General’s Office (PGR) has denied reports circulating in social media, such as WhatsApp and Facebook, that it has requested the country’s banks to reveal details of the accounts of President Filipe Nyusi.
A fake PGR statement has been circulating, clearly imitating the real PGR request in early April for the lifting of banking secrecy on the accounts of former President Armando Guebuza, and several of his relatives and collaborators.
Lifting the banking secrecy of Guebuza and his associates was a measure taken in connection with the audit of the three security-related concerns Ematum (Mozambique Tuna Company), Proindicus and MAM (Mozambique Asset Management). The audit, for which the PGR has hired the London branch of the US company Kroll, reputedly the foremost forensic auditing company in the world. is expected to trace what happened to the more than two billion US dollars which Ematum, Proindicus and MAM borrowed from European banks (mainly Credit Suisse and VTB of Russia) in 2013 and 2014.
The forged PGR document claimed that the PGR asked to lift the banking secrecy of Nyusi, of former deputy defence minister Agostinho Mondlane (who is now the Minister for the Sea, Inland Waters and Fisheries), and of former transport minister Gabriel Muthisse.
The PGR issued a statement on Wednesday night categorically denying that it has made any such request to the banks, and describing the forged document as “disinformation”.
“No request for lifting banking secrecy has been made with regard to these persons”, said the PGR.
The forgery was “an attack against the honour, reputation and good name of the Head of State and of the other citizens mentioned”, it added.
The PGR condemned the use of social media to spread false information, which could amount to criminal offences.
Source: AIM
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