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Former Mozambican transport and communications minister Paulo Zucula is facing trial in Maputo today in a case in which he is accused of authorising illegal payments to officials of the country’s civil aviation regulator.
The hearing takes place in the second section of the Nhlamankulo Judicial Court in Maputo. Zucula faces charges of wrongful payment of undue remuneration amounting to more than 2,250,000 meticais (US$35,972).
After the postponement on February 20 at his request, ‘Noticias’ writes today, the former minister will sit in court with Teresa Jeremias, former administrator of the Civil Aviation Institute of Mozambique (IACM) , Lucrécia Celeste Merícia Ndeve, former director general of IACM, and Amélia Abílio Levi Delane, former head of the financial department of the same institution. All of these three co-defendants are charged of abuse of office or function under an indictment from the Central Office for Combating Corruption (GCCC), a unit subordinate to the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), whose corresponding case was referred to the Nhlamankulu District Judicial Court, in 2017.
The case file states that, in 2009, in the performance of the duties of Minister of Transport and Communications, Paulo Zucula improperly authorised remuneration to members of the Board of Directors of IACM. At the time, the institution statutes required that this be done by joint order of the Ministers of Transport and of Finance, but this did not the happen.
The three former IACM officials were allegedly signing cheques for amounts equivalent to their own wages on the grounds that these were salaries paid in advance, but without subsequently repaying the sums, which amounted to 2,250,202 meticais.
Former administrator Teresa Jeremias is further accused of having paid the airfares of family members using funds from the IACM, without being entitled to such a perk.
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