Mozambique court hands out verdicts in $2bn corruption case

A court in Mozambique has begun handing down verdicts in the country’s biggest corruption scandal, in which the government unleashed a financial earthquake by trying to conceal huge debts.
The 19 high-profile defendants, who include former state security officials and the son of an ex-president, faced charges ranging from money laundering to bribery and blackmail related to a $2bn “hidden debt” scandal that crashed the nation’s economy.
Judge Efigenio Baptista of the Maputo City Court said on Wednesday that reading the 1,388 page judgement was likely to take five days. The trial, which started in August last year, ran until March.

Al Jazeera Haru Mutasa reports.


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Here in Mozambique, the fundamental problem is that there is no credibility in the judicial system, which is a completely politicized and corrupted system... Now is a great opportunity for the Mozambican judicial system to do what is right and prove us all wrong!!! 🇲🇿