Mozambique: 12 named suspects as GCCC case unfolds in Tete – Miramar

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Mozambique: 12 named suspects as GCCC case unfolds in Tete – Miramar

3:03 CAT | 25 Mar 2022

Photo: Miramar

This Friday, Miramar reports that 12 persons have just been named ‘formal suspects’ [‘arguidos’] by the Central Office for Combating Corruption in connection with the embezzlement in Tete of 106 million meticais from the Provincial Directorate of Economy and Finance.

According to a note from the Central Anti-Corruption Office received at Miramar, between 2019 and 2020, via an award without a public tender, two companies signed contracts worth just over 106 million meticais with the National Institute of Social Action (INAS) and the Tete Single Attendance Counter (BAU) for the supply of foodstuffs for people in emergency situations, as well as the supply of computer equipment and office supplies.

In this process, the Central Office for the Fight against Corruption is investigating apparent over-pricing and situations of conflict of interest, given that the Provincial Director of Economy and Finance is himself a partner in one of the companies.

The court has already set bail for six of the arrested defendants in amounts ranging from 500,000 to two million meticais.

Among the six detained are Provincial Director of Economy and Finance, Carlos Tomo and his wife, Belmira Jaqueta, Director of the National Institute of Social Action (INAS), Tete delegation.

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Source: Miramar