The Anti-Corruption Brigade, set up inside the Attorney-General's Office, on Thursday opened a delegation in Beira, to serve the central region of Mozambique, and is soon to open another in Nampula, to serve the northern provinces.
The head of the brigade, Isabel Rupia, who is one of the assistant Attorney-Generals, said that the chief Sofala attorney, Tomas Zandamela, is to lead the Beira delegation, while Alberto Paulo will respond for the Nampula branch.
Cited in Friday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias", Rupia warned that with these two offices, "the corrupt people in these regions should be on the alert, because the target is to fight against them".
Rupia added that although her brigade is in need of more staff, the work will be done, because some of the existing prosecutors in those areas will also deal with the corruption cases.
Giving no figures, she said that many cases have been reported in the central region, and that it is urgent to sort them out.
Rupia warned that "corruption cases are not easy to deal with. It takes production of evidence, a complex process, but it is running normally".
She also said that even before the establishment of this office, her brigade had been working on corruption cases in the central region.
Rupia said that during her stay in Beira, to open that office, she also took the time to interview some people involved in known corruption cases, that are still under investigation.
Among the people she interviewed, she mentioned former Beira mayor Chivavice Muchangage, but gave no further details, saying only that he is being interrogated about a case that is still under investigation.
This is the second time that Muchangage has been questioned by the anti-corruption brigade. The first interrogation concerned the circumstances under which Beira City Council had acquired a number of two-way radios.
Rupia said that many other cases are set to be uncovered, and urged the media to "publicise these offices so that people know that they can go to lodge their complaints".
Fonte: AIM
