Maputo, 7 May (AIM) – Portuguese businessman Jose Pedro da Silva, murdered in Maputo last Friday, was killed by his own bodyguard, with the complicity of his driver, according to the spokesperson for the General Command of the police, Leonel Muchina.
Muchina told a Maputo press conference on Tuesday that the evidence collected at the scene of the crime showed that the shot that killed Silva was fired from inside the car, and there was no sign that the vehicle had been attacked from outside.
Muchina said that, during questioning, the driver confessed that it was the bodyguard who fired the fatal shot. Nobody fired on the car from the street and Silva was not being chased by anyone.
Following this confession, the bodyguard also confessed. The two added that, after the death of Silva, they took his body to a company car park, to change the vehicle used. They also replaced the bullet shot from the bodyguard’s pistol.
Silva had been collecting money from branches of Sotubos, a company owned by his father. It is believed that stealing the money was the motive for the murder.
The police have denied that the murder was a kidnapping gone wrong. There was no attempt to abduct Silva.
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