Mozambican businessman kidnapped in prime Maputo neighbourhood Sommershield II – Carta

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Mozambican businessman kidnapped in prime Maputo neighbourhood Sommershield II – Carta

3:07 CAT | 01 Jul 2022

FILE - Illustrative image. [File photo: Notícias]

The abduction, yesterday, at around 6 pm, of the Mozambican citizen Ahmed Anwar, owner of the Hotel Royal, took place near his home in Sommerschield II / Polana-Caniço, in Maputo, more specifically in the immediate vicinity of the official residence of the General Commander of the Police, Carta de Moçambique has learned.

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Anwar was returning from a mosque when he was intercepted by the kidnappers His house is located between the official residences of the General Commander of the Police and of the General Director of SISE.

The neighbourhood is surrounded by police and SISE agents, in addition to the [private security] guards.

Just when one thinks it’s being fought, the kidnapping industry makes a comeback to give its vital signs.

It is said that, in recent days, witnesses from the neighbourhood noticed the presence of strangers in the vicinity, who people took for agents of the so-called Rapid Intervention Unit, the riot squad of the Mozambican police force (UIR), which is also responsible for the protection of high-ranking individuals. of the State.

In February, the Attorney General’s Office confirmed, in a press release, the involvement of agents of the National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) in the kidnapping industry in Mozambique. Some members of police gangs have been in preventive detention since April 2021.

Sources from the police ‘intelligence’ told “Carta” that, with the dismantling of networks within SERNIC, kidnappings and “death squads” became controlled and orchestrated from new networks located within the UIR.

A recent public proof was the revelation of the involvement of the UIR Reconnaissance Chief in the city of Maputo, Lenine Macamo, who allegedly led a gang that had set up a scheme to kill Nini Satar within the BO. Macamo is a fugitive from this April.

Ahmed Anwar is just over 60 years old.

Source: Carta de Moçambique