Mozambique: Anti-corruption unit questions Nyimpine Chissano

Investigators from the Anti-Corruption Unit in the Mozambican Attorney-General's Office have questioned businessman Nyimpine Chissano, the oldest son of President Joaquim Chissano, in connection with the September 2002 escape from the Maputo top security prison of Anibal dos Santos Junior ("Anibalzinho"), reports Friday's issue of the independent weekly "Savana". Anibalzinho was the man who led the death squad recruited to assassinate Mozambique's top investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso, in November 2000. After his mysterious disappearance from prison on 1 September 2002, he was tried in absentia.