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Mozambique: Suspect arrested over 2022 kidnapping of businessman in Manica province – Lusa
5:03 CAT | 28 Aug 2023
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Mozambican police have detained a suspect involved in a kidnapping that took place in 2021 in Manica province, in central Mozambique, a source from the corporation told Lusa on Monday.
“We had an arrest warrant against him for kidnapping a [citizen of] Indian [ origin] in 2021,” said Paulo Candieiro, spokesman for the National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC).
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The suspect, whose nationality is still unknown, was detained by the public protection police on Wednesday, along with four other people with whom he carried out robberies in the province, according to SERNIC
“He claims to be Mozambican, but he didn’t have any identification document [to prove it],” said Paulo Candieiro.
Some Mozambican cities, mainly the provincial capitals, have been affected again since 2020 by a wave of kidnappings, mainly targeting businessmen or their family members.
The Mozambican prime minister, Adriano Maleiane, said in parliament in May that the agents who will work in the unit that will fight kidnappings that affect the country’s main cities have already been selected.
“The first phase, already completed”, of the creation of the unit to combat kidnapping, “consisted of the selection of agents” and the next stage will be the specialization of the personnel and will have the support of cooperation partners, he continued.
At the time, Maleiane said that since 2021, 28 cases of kidnapping have been registered in Mozambique, of which “15 have been fully clarified”.
Source: Lusa
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