Just in: Businessman Manish Cantilal kidnapped in Maputo – Watch

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Just in: Businessman Manish Cantilal kidnapped in Maputo – Watch

10:58 CAT | 19 Feb 2020

Businessman Moniz Carsane, better known as Manish Cantilal, was kidnapped last night (Tuesday) by persons unknown. Details remain sketchy, Miramar reports.

The footage that Miramar had access to suggests that, at around 11:00 p.m. yesterday, the victim had just parked his vehicle, when a group of four or more people entered the parking garage.

Video from another angle shows Manish being bundled moments later into the kidnappers’ car, all of whom remained securely masked. The abduction consummated, they left the scene at high speed.

Moniz Carsane is one of the shareholders of El Patron, a new leisure space that has been wildly popular recently. People close to him do not rule out the possibility that Manish has been ‘mistaken’ for a wealthy person.

Police contacted by Miramar confirmed last night’s abduction, and say they have already activated all operational lines to clarify the case, the first in Maputo this year.

Manish Cantilal became well known in April 2014, when he was arrested and charged with being the mastermind of four kidnappings in the city of Maputo. The same year saw the Judicial Court of the City of Maputo restore him to freedom. Released, a visibly emotional Cantilal claimed, in tears and his voice breaking, that he was the victim of persecution.

In the meantime, the decision to release Manish Cantilal on bail, according to his lawyer at the time, Damiao Cumbane, was taken by judge Dinis Silica, who subsequently lost his life in a savage murder in Maputo.

Judge Dinis Silica had previously ordered Cantilal’s arrest. Nevertheless, his lawyer Damiao Cumbane later told Canalmoz that “the decision to grant freedom on bail was made by judge Dinis Silica, before he was murdered. But only its effectiveness was missing” .

Bail amounted to close to one million meticais. Cantilal had been in jail for 45 days. He had been arrested on April 12.

According to Damião Cumbane, quoted by Canalmoz, after the murder of judge Silica, it was necessary to wait for a new judge to be appointed for the case, in order to proceed with the evaluation of the request, which ended up deserving a favourable assessment, reads a Canalmoz report from May 25 2014.

As Canalmoz learned from sources close to the matter, Manish Cantilal was reportedly released the week the judge was murdered.

Source: Miramar / Canalmoz