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The fate of Sheinaz Gani, the 47-year-old businesswoman abducted almost a month ago [May 16] from outside her offices on Karl Marx Avenue in Maputo city, remains in the hands of her kidnappers, while the National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) remains silent on the case.
Sheinaz Gani was kidnapped a few days after her company, Fábrica de Confecções Sabina, won a contract to make uniforms for a public entity. The value of the contract remains unspecified, though a source told ‘Carta’ is was very high.
READ: Update: Kidnapping of Sheinaz Gani, owner of Fábrica de Confecções Sabina – Watch
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The Carta source added that, after the kidnapping, the police obtained video surveillance evidence considered “sufficient” to solve the case, but to date no announcement has been made, and SERNIC has told the family it still has no actionable leads.
Carta has in the meantime learned that the kidnappers have provided proof that Shernaz is alive and demanded a ransom of several million meticais from the family.
It is said within the Mohammedan community that the Gani family is not necessarily rich, and that the clothing business is not profitable, being dominated by politically well-placed firms such as Mozambique Holdings.
“They [the Gani family] don’t have the millions that the kidnappers are demanding,” the source said, pointing out that the recently awarded contract was the only major one the company had secured in years.
In the interim, the source adds, the kidnappers continue to make periodic calls.
READ: SERNIC say no leads as yet on businesswoman kidnapped two weeks ago
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