Mozambique: Organised crime office GCCCOT to have almost 300 on staff

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Mozambique: Organised crime office GCCCOT to have almost 300 on staff

9:26 CAT | 06 Oct 2023

FILE - For illustration purposes only. [File photo: O País]

The staff of the Mozambican Central Office for Combating Organised and Transnational Crime will include almost 300 people, but these hirings are subject to budget availability, according to an authorisation that Lusa had access to on Thursday.

A resolution by the Interministerial Commission for the Reform of Public Administration, chaired by the Prime Minister, Adriano Maleiane, dated 15 September, approved the staffing of this body, created in 2022, but also defined that “the filling of posts” is “conditional on the existence of budgetary availability”.

The staff approved for the Central Office for Combating Organised and Transnational Crime provides for 287 workers, including 44 prosecutors, including two deputy attorneys general, and 24 bailiffs.

According to Mozambique’s Attorney General’s Office (PGR), the Central Office for Combating Organised and Transnational Crime [Gabinete Central de Combate à Criminalidade Organizada e Transnacional – GCCCOT] is a central-level body responsible for “prosecuting crimes related to terrorism, money laundering, kidnapping, trafficking in persons and human organs, illegal immigration and international trafficking in drugs and arms”.

The office also has the mission of prosecuting “crimes related to state security”.

Source: Lusa