Mozambique must ratify Budapest Convention on Cyber Crime – Attorney General Beatriz Buchili

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Mozambique must ratify Budapest Convention on Cyber Crime – Attorney General Beatriz Buchili

1:01 CAT | 28 Sep 2016

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Mozambique’s Attorney General is recommending that the country proceed with ratifying the Budapest Convention on cyber crime, which defines crimes committed via the Internet and their manner of criminal prosecution.

Signed on 23 November 2001 in the Romanian capital, the convention deals with matters such as copyright violations, computer-related fraud, child pornography and network security breaches and, according to Beatriz Buchili, the ratification could occur while concurrently studying other measures that may entail the amendment of Mozambique’s criminal code or the creation of specific legislation on the matter.

Mozambique’s Attorney General, Beatriz Buchili

The Attorney General made her position known during a public prosecutors legal conference in Maputo, saying that the fact that Mozambique has not yet ratified the convention reduces its room for maneuver in fighting cyber crime.

“We must not fail to recognize the legislative challenges that face us in covering situations that are a reality in our country and which deserve our attention. We must prepare ourselves to combat organised and transnational crime better using the experience of other countries in the areas of cyber crime, money laundering, kidnapping, human trafficking and the recovery of assets,” Buchili said.

Another relevant issue, Buchili said, is the urgent need to adopt legal mechanisms and create an asset recovery unit to identify, locate and seize crime-related assets or products, demonstrating that crime does indeed not pay.

“What once again became clear is that measures to prevent and combat this type of crime cannot be undertaken by any state in isolation, without the cooperation of other states,” Buchili said.

Source: Notícias