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António do Rosário’s dismissal from the economic direction of the secret intelligence service is interpreted by some as unblocking access to missing information in the case of Mozambique’s hidden debts. But others deprecate the dismissal.
The Wednesday edition of Canal de Moçambique reveals that the head of economic intelligence at SISE, the State Security Information Services, has been dismissed from his post. It is assumed that Antônio Carlos do Rosário is one of the key players in the contracting of the so-called hidden debts and the person who would have made it difficult for the Kroll audit to access crucial information about this process.
Could his dismissal clear access to such information? Is it an attempt to show deference to international donors or even a simple regular dismissal?
Pedro Nhacete, a researcher at the Centre for International Strategic Studies, says that “President [Filipe Nyusi] may already have commitments to international donors, so when he dismisses him from the position it is more to open the ways that, in fact, things appear without his [Carlos António do Rosário] intervention and obstruction from inside”.
The researcher recalls that “he has not had a satisfactory collaboration with Kroll, but there may also be a second dimension, in which he may, for example, have perhaps created a way out in order to obstruct, or also, he may have requested to be discharged”.
It takes more than one resignation
But there are those who do not interpret this exit in the same way. For the executive director Denise Namburete of Nweti, an NGO working in the field of public policy advocacy, it would take more than a single dismissal to clarify the taking on of the debts
“I do not think it’s a way of guaranteeing access to information. I think what we want right now is that the research gaps in the Kroll report will be remedied, and those gaps will not be solved with a simple dismissal,” Namburete says.
“It is necessary that in addition to the dismissal it is in any way forced or impelled to provide the declarations, documents and data needed to remedy the information gaps in the Kroll report, and will be satisfactory for both development partners and the IMF or the Mozambican citizen,” she adds
Does the alleged ‘Person A’ need to abandon management of Ematum and Proindicus?
Meanwhile, António do Rosário continues to serve on the Board of Directors of companies that have benefited from the money from foreign banks, according to Canal de Moçambique. SISE is a shareholder in Ematum, MAM and ProIndicus, all beneficiaries of the loans.
If one considers do Rosário one of the biggest “obstructers”, wouldn’t it also make sense for him to resign from management of the notorious companies?
Pedro Nhacete has no doubts and considers that “it would be lawful at this moment, he should be removed from the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors because, his being there, there may be obstruction of information or there may be greater difficulty as when he was in secret services and would not co-operate with Kroll”.
Denise Namburete, however, plays down the role of Antônio Carlos do Rosário, thought by many as the “Person A” quoted in Kroll report.
“I think it’s indifferent to the extent that these companies do not actually exist. Data indicates that the companies are not operational,” she argues.
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