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6:53 CAT | 19 Mar 2021
Photo: Embajada de España en Mozambique y Esuatini
The Spanish Agency for International Cooperation has launched a program to support the fight against corruption in Mozambique, the Spanish embassy in Maputo announced on Wednesday.
The program aims to ensure that “national mechanisms prevent, combat and monitor corruption in a systematic and efficient manner”, the Embassy of Spain said in a statement.
The first phase, running from March 17 to March 30, will comprise a series of virtual meetings between staff linked to Mozambican justice and a European Union mission, whose objective is to correctly diagnose the corruption situation in the country.
“The diagnosis and assessment of the risk of corruption will take the form of meetings with representatives of Mozambican institutions in the field of justice, in order to collect, from different perspectives and points of view, as much information as possible about the fight against corruption,” the Spanish embassy in Mozambique says.
The European Union mission is composed of a Spanish magistrate and a judge, plus two Portuguese judges, all with “extensive experience in the fight against corruption”.
The initiative is financed by the European Union and led by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development, in collaboration with the International and Ibero-American Foundation for Administration and Public Policies.
According to 2019 data from the Central Office for Combating Corruption (GCCC), the Mozambican state, over 10 years, lost 46 billion meticais to corruption (€528 million at current exchange rates).
Of the total diverted, the Mozambican state had at the time recovered only 96 million meticais (€1.1 million euros). About 1,300 people were arrested in 8,000 suspected corruption cases over the same period.
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Publicado por Embajada de España en Mozambique y Esuatini em Quarta-feira, 17 de março de 2021
Source: Lusa
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