Maputo, 23 Nov (AIM) – Mozambique’s Central Office for the Fight against Corruption (GCCC) announced on Wednesday that it had initiated criminal proceedings in 1,175 cases of corruption over the last 10 months.
According to Romualdo Jhonam, spokesperson for the GCCC, 803 cases have been charged and the rest are being investigated.
Jhonam, who was speaking at a National Meeting of the GCCC, in Maputo under the theme “Strengthening the Public Prosecutor’s Office in the Prevention and Fight against Corruption and Money Laundering”, said that the highest number of corruption cases were in Maputo, and in the central provinces of Sofala and Zambézia.
The aim of the meeting is to analyze ways of speeding up anti-corruption cases, the contribution of information and communication technologies, the intervention capacity of the central anti-corruption office, and territorial coverage in terms of infrastructure.
The event was attended by the director of the GCCC, judicial magistrates, representatives of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, and of the Bank of Mozambique, investigators from the National Criminal Investigation Service (Sernic), among others.
(AIM)
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