Mozambican Police Confirm Extradition of Danish Satar

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Mozambican Police Confirm Extradition of Danish Satar

2:30 CAT | 06 Jan 2016

MMO (File) / Danish Satar

The spokesperson for the General Command of the Mozambican police, Inacio Dina, on Tuesday confirmed that Danish Abdul Satar, wanted in connection with the wave of kidnappings that hit Mozambican cities as from late 2011, has been extradited and is currently under police custody in Maputo.

Satar was detained by Interpol in Rome in November, and it proved possible to deport him to Maputo, despite the lack of an extradition treaty between Mozambique and Italy. Dina said the extradition was in the interests of both police forces, and was arranged via Interpol of which both forces are members.

The case against Danish Satar dates back to 2012. Dina recalled that he was briefly detained, but a Maputo court ordered his release on bail. As a condition of his release, Satar should have reported regularly to the court. Instead, he left the country, supposedly for Dubai, and has been living as a fugitive.

He left Mozambique the day after the police arrested seven other members of a kidnap gang. Dina said that the charges facing Satar include kidnapping and “private imprisonment”.

On Monday, the General Commander of the Mozambican police, Jorge Khalau, visited the Maputo City Police command, where Satar is currently incarcerated. He told reporters that the investigations into the kidnappings are proceeding “at a good pace”.

“This detention shows that the police are working”, he declared. “In the coming days we will have other detentions”. He gave no details, but promised that the police would shortly announce further progress.

Danish Satar is a member of the notorious Abdul Satar crime family. He is the son of Asslam Abdul Satar, one of the masterminds of the gigantic bank fraud of 1996, in which the equivalent of 14 million dollars was siphoned out of the country’s largest bank, the Commercial Bank of Mozambique (BCM), on the eve of its privatization.

Asslam’s brother, and Danish Satar’s uncle, Momad Assife Abdul Satar (“Nini”), another key player in the bank fraud, is one of the three businessmen found guilty of ordering the assassination in November 2000 of Mozambique’s foremost investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso.

Nini Satar was released in 2014 after serving half of his 24 year prison sentence for the Cardoso murder. A condition for his parole was that he should report regularly to the Maputo City Court. But he too has skipped the country and is currently living in Europe.

Source: AIM