Public prosecutor submits five more criminal charges against Nini Satar

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Public prosecutor submits five more criminal charges against Nini Satar

11:06 CAT | 21 Sep 2018

File photo: Folha de Maputo

Mozambique’s public prosecutor’s office has charged Momad Assif Abdul ‘Nini’ Satar, who was arrested in Thailand after violating his probation, with a further five crimes in addition to the three felony charges levelled against him last week.

These include abduction and attempted abduction, conspiracy to commit crimes, use of illegal weapons and qualified theft.

Last week, the prosecutor accused Satar of falsifying a passport, using a false name and corruption, and implicating a nephew of the defendant whose name was used by the fugitive to enter Thailand and the official of the National Migration Service who issued the document.

Satar was captured in Thailand by the authorities there under an international arrest warrant.

Satar previously refused to return to Mozambique after obtaining judicial authorisation for medical treatment abroad following his release on probation after serving half his 24-year 2003 prison sentence for the murder of Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso.

Mozambican prosecutors suspect that Satar was one of the masterminds behind a wave of kidnappings targeting businessmen and their family members that struck Maputo between 2011 and 2014.

Source: Lusa