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6:43 CAT | 14 Jul 2025
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The Mozambican authorities on Friday detained a man wanted for fraud and money laundering at Maputo International Airport.
According to a report in the independent daily “O Pais”, the man, Hussen Gulam, was arrested when he stepped off a plane from Dubai. He is a suspect in a case brought by the Central Office for the Fight against Organised and Transnational Crime (GCCCOT), and is accused of a range of crimes, including tax fraud, money laundering, forgery and criminal conspiracy.
According to the GCCCOT, Gulam set up shell companies in Mozambique, and used them to transfer large sums in US dollars to tax havens. The money was supposedly used to import goods for sale in Mozambique – but the GCCCOT says the goods never entered Mozambique.
Gulam, according to the prosecutors, was assisted by corrupt customs officers, lawyers and bank workers in forging documents and exporting capital.
Hussen Gulam is the brother of Norolamin Gulam who is currently detained in the United States on charges of drug trafficking, and is another suspect wanted by the GCCCOT. Two other suspects in the same case were recently released by the Maputo City Law Court.
But the GCCCOT says the crimes involve 40 other people, including customs clerks and bank workers. No fewer than 62 shell companies are also defendants.
Gulam and his brothers are accused of building criminal empires in Maputo and in the northern city of Nampula.
As part of its investigations, the GCCCOT has seized 32 buildings, luxury cars and an unspecified amount of cash that was in the possessions of the suspects.
Source: AIM
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