Watch: Turnaround as PGR arrests hacker suspected of stealing over €123,000 from Beira Central Hospital – Mozambique

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Watch: Turnaround as PGR arrests hacker suspected of stealing over €123,000 from Beira Central Hospital – Mozambique

2:49 CAT | 24 Apr 2020

Spokesperson for the Sofala Attorney General Office Joaquim Tomo. [Photo: Miramar]

Police in Mozambique have arrested a computer scientist suspected of embezzling 9 million meticais (€123,000) from Beira Central Hospital in Sofala province.

“This is a computer expert, who is in custody but has not yet been indicted. We are currently in the preparatory phase of the investigation,” Joaquim Tomo, spokesman for the Sofala Provincial Prosecutor’s Office, told the press, without going into further details about the circumstances of the arrest.

The man allegedly broke into the financial system of Beira Central Hospital in Sofala to divert 9 million meticais to bank accounts in Manica, a neighbouring province.

“He is a computer-savvy individual who knew how banks work. It is something new in our country,” Joaquim Tomo added.

The case led to the arrest in December of six employees of that institution, who now are expected to be cleared based on the new evidence, according to a spokesman for the Sofala Provincial Prosecutor’s Office.

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“Everything indicates that they [officials] are not involved in the embezzlement of funds and therefore it is easy to guess the outcome. They will be acquitted or at least not charged,” Joaquim Tomo said.

Beira Central Hospital is one of the country’s most important after the one in the capital, Maputo, and as a reference unit in the central region where about nine million people – one-third of the Mozambican population.