Nine people arrested for fuel theft in Moatize, Mozambique

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Nine people arrested for fuel theft in Moatize, Mozambique

7:20 CAT | 10 Oct 2016

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The Mozambican police on Wednesday arrested nine people accused of stealing fuel from the mining company Vale-Mozambique, in the town of Moatize in the western province of Tete.

The Moatize police commander, Matias Cutuberto, told reporters that the thieves were caught red-handed in the possession of 3,000 litres of diesel.

Two of the nine people arrested are security guards from the London-based security company G4S. Instead of protecting Vale’s premises, these two guards had facilitated the theft of fuel.

Cutuberto said the police had suspected that fuel could only be stolen from Vale with the connivance of private security guards, and the arrests confirmed these suspicions.

It was the betrayal by security guards that was damaging the interests of companies in Moatize, he argued. “We think that if the workers of the private security companies behaved in a responsible way, then no company hiring them would complain of thefts, as has been happening”, said the commander.

The case has now been sent to the Public Prosecutor’s Office.

Source: AIM