mozambique: NINI SATAR VS NYIMPINE CHISSANO

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CARLOS CARDOSO MURDER TRIAL
Days 12-13
Mailing 6 - 6 December 2002
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NINI SATAR VS NYIMPINE CHISSANO

PRESS ACCUSES NYIMPINE OF LYING
Savana, MediaFax and AIM all accused Nyimpine of lying in his evidence.
Nyimpine said he had never spoken to Carlos Cardoso, yet Cardoso published
articles in Metical quoting Nyimpine, and Cardoso was known to be
meticulous about accuracy of quotes. Nyimpine said he never worked for
Banco Austral, but Savana said he was paid $3000 a month as a consultant,
and that Siba-Siba Macuacaua cancelled that contract shortly before he was
assassinated. MediaFax called Nyimpine "forgetful and insecure" in his
testimony.

RENAMO LAWYER REPRESENTS NYIMPINE
In this case, Nyimpine Chissano is being represented by one of the most
senior figures in the opposition party Renamo, Orlando da Graça. The
lawyer is a member of Renamo's Political Committee.

COSSA, PATEGUANA GIVE EVIDENCE
On Friday, Nyimpine's business partner Nanaio Pateguana (son of a fomer
governor said to be very close to President Chissano) backed Nympinie's
story and also said he helped Maria Candida Cossa when she was badly in
debt to Nini Satar. She, in turn, began her evidence on Friday and said
she was a successful enough businessman to be able to lend $450,000 to
another businessman at the request of another of the defendants, Vicente
Ramaya.

BUSINESS INTERESTS
MediaFax on Thursday gave more details of the business links of the
Chissano sons and other children of the elite (details below).

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DAY 12
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141202E CARDOSO MURDER: PRESIDENT'S SON DENIES INVOLVEMENT

Maputo, 5 Dec 2002 (AIM) - Businessman Nyimpine Chissano, the oldest
son of Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano, on Thursday denied
all knowledge of five of the six men charged with the murder of
the country's top investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso.

He said that he had never met or spoken with Anibal dos
Santos Junior ("Anibalzinho"), the man accused of organising the
death squad.

He thus denied the claim made by a second assassin, Carlitos
Rashid, who told the court he had seen Anibalzinho meet Chissano
Jr on three occasions, once before the murder and twice
afterwards,

Rashid alleged that on the first of these occasions Nyimpine
gave Anibalzinho a bag containing 100 million meticais (about
4,200 US dollars). When the judge asked if he had ever given
someone 100 million meticais, Chissano Jr replied "Not that I
recall".

Nyimpine also denied any knowledge, other than through the
media, of Rashid, Manuel Fernandes ("Escurinho"), Ayob Abdul
Satar or Vicente Ramaya.

But it was a different story with the sixth accused, Satar's
younger brother, the money-lender Momade Assife Abdul Satar
("Nini"). Nyimpine said that his associate Maria Candida Cossa, a
former customs official, had introduced him to Momade Satar at
his office in the Unicambios foreign exchange bureau (owned by
the Satars), where "he was helping Candida with a loan".

Nyimpine said he could not remember the date, but added that
he had no further relations with Satar, and never did business
with him.

Satar claims that Nyimpine Chissano borrowed 1.2 billion
meticais from him, and that Chissano asked him to pay this money
directly to Anibalzinho. Satar claims he had no idea what this
money was for, but after discussions with Anibalzinho in prison,
he realised it was to pay for the murder.

To prove his story, Satar handed the court seven cheques
from Nyimpine Chissano's company, Expresso Tours. These postdated
cheques, Satar alleged, were the guarantee that Chissano would
repay the 1.2 billion meticais.

Nyimpine's explanation for these cheques was radically
different. He flatly denied ever asking Satar to pay money to
Anibalzinho, or to anyone else.

He said that Expresso Tours had asked for a loan, not from
Satar, but from Candida Cossa. The cheques, postdated, and with
the space for the payee left blank, were given to Cossa as
guarantees of repayment.

Nyimpine said the company had a cash flow problem: it needed
money to pay suppliers, and turned to Cossa for help, with the
promise that as soon as money from clients came in, she would be
repaid. She would then return the cheque "guarantees".

But when Expresso tours paid Cossa, "We asked for the
cheques back, and they were not given to us. She said they were
in the possession of Unicambios". He recalled Cossa saying "she
had negotiated some cheques with Unicambios".

His mind went blank on all the details of this odd
transaction. He could not remember how much interest Cossa had
charged, nor how much money Expresso Tours had borrowed from her,
nor many cheques in all were issued.

However, he was sure that there were more than the seven
cheques Satar presented to the court. He said some had been
returned to Expresso Tours, while still others remained in the
hands of Unicambios. "We don't know why Unicambios held on to the
cheques", he said.

Nyimpine made no attempt to explain why Expresso Tours
borrowed money from Cossa rather than using a bank. If Cossa is
lending large sums of money at high interest rates, this is just
loan-sharking, and is illegal.

Chissano could not recall when Cossa had granted the loan -
but all the cheques presented to the court had payment dates from
October 2000 to January 2001 - i.e. immediately before and after
the murder of Carlos Cardoso.

He said that Expresso Tours was prepared to take out loans
against cheque guarantees from people it regarded as
"trustworthy", and Cossa fell into this category - even though
Chissano admitted that he only met her a year previously in 1999.

He said he had met both her and the then head of the
government's Customs Restructuring Unit, Pedro Bule, at Cossa's
house with several others in "mid or late 1999". This was a
meeting to discuss setting up an import company - Chissano said
Cossa had invited him even though they had never met before.

"Social gatherings" were later held at Cossa's house,
attended by Nyimpine and his friend Nanaio Pateguana. He denied
that either Momade Satar or Anibalzinho was present on these
occasions. (Allegations were made last week of conspiratorial
meetings at Cossa's house, involving all these people, and which
planned the murder of Pedro Bule - later called off - and of
Cardoso.)

One of the accused, former bank manager Vicente Ramaya, said
he met Nyimpine Chissano twice at Cossa's house. Chissano did not
recall either occasion.

Asked if he had ever been offended by articles written by
Cardoso, Nyimpine said that several articles that appeared in
Cardoso's paper "Metical" had "affected" the Chissano family. But
he said he harboured no vengeful feelings, and that the family
had decided to remain silent.

(Cardoso believed that the business dealings of the
President's family should be public knowledge, and had written
extensively about them.)

Chissano claimed that the entire family was "affected", from
his great-grandparents right down to his one year old child. When
the presiding judge, Augusto Paulino, noted that this child had
been born after Cardoso's death, Nyimpine retorted "he's still
affected by the articles".

Chissano said he had never spoken to Cardoso, or to any
other journalist sent by Cardoso to speak to him. But there are
articles in "Metical" which quote Chissano speaking to the
paper's reporters, and, on one occasion, hanging up on them.

Chissano also told the court he had never worked for the
privatised Austral Bank. But on 5 August, the weekly paper
"Savana" reported that Austral had hired Nyimpine Chissano as a
consultant on a salary of 3,000 US dollars a month as from 1997,
and that his contract was terminated when the private
shareholders pulled out, in April 2001, and a provisional board
headed by Antonio Siba-Siba Macuacua took over.

The "Savana" article said that Siba-Siba wrote a letter to
Chissano Jr telling him that his services were no longer
required, and that any money owing to him would be discounted
against his outstanding debt to Austral. This "Savana" story has
never been denied.

The questioning of Chissano will continue on Friday, when
Candida Cossa is also due to testify.
(AIM)
pf/ (1078)

151202E CARDOSO MURDER: LAWYER COMPLAINS OF THREATS

Maputo, 5 Dec 2002 (AIM) - Abdul Gani, lawyer for Vicente Ramaya, one
of the six men charged with murdering Mozambican journalist
Carlos Cardoso, on Thursday told the Maputo City Court that he
received threatening phone calls on Tuesday, after he had
submitted prosecution witness Osvaldo Muianga ("Dudu") to tough
cross-examination.

Gani said there had been two phone calls that evening
warning him to give up the case. He complained that security was
provided for the judges in the case, but not for the lawyers.

"Who is afraid of the truth ?", asked Gani. "I am not a
hero, but I will continue. I will continue undertaking the
intransigent defence of my client, because I believe he is
innocent. It is not blackmail and threats that will make me give
up".

The presiding judge, Augusto Paulino, sympathised with Gani,
and recalled that he too had come under threat. He urged anyone
with a complaint at the way the case was going to say so openly,
"instead of making cowardly, threatening phone calls".

Nobody should think that they could force a particular
result out of the case. "Evidence is like a cashew - when it's
ripe, it falls to the ground, you don't have to force it", said
Paulino.

He said he wanted "appropriate security measures" for all
the lawyers involved, both for the prosecution and for the
defence.

Paulino noted that among those who had made threatening
phone calls were some of the accused, who had illicitly obtained
mobile phones in the top security prison and had used them to
intimidate witnesses and their relatives.
(AIM)
pf/ (269)

161202E CARDOSO MURDER: TAPED PHONE CONVERSATIONS INAUDIBLE

Maputo, 5 Dec 2002 (AIM) - The prosecution in the Carlos Cardoso
murder trial at the Maputo City Court on Thursday played taped
phone calls which it said proved attempts to bribe prosecution
witness, Osvaldo Muianga ("Dudu").

On Tuesday, the prosecution had shown the court a sackful of
banknotes - amounting to 6,500 US dollars, and 135,150,000
meticais (about 5,700 dollars).

This was allegedly money paid by relatives of three of the
accused, Vicente Ramaya and the brothers Ayob and Momade Abdul
Satar, to Muianga's mother, Fatima Razak.

Supposedly, the purpose of the bribe was to persuade Muianga
to change his story. He had claimed that Ramaya and the Satar
brothers were present at conspiratorial meetings in the Rovuma
Hotel in mid-2000. The money was to pay for a new story that left
Ramaya and the Satars out altogether.

But when the tapes were played the quality was so poor, that
neither the presiding judge, Augusto Paulino, nor anyone else in
the court, could make much sense of them.

The first call was from Momade Satar to Fatima Razak, and
the second from Satar to Muianga.

Muianga confirmed to the court that the call had taken place
and it was his voice on the tape. He said that he was speaking to
Satar and had recognised Satar's voice.

Muianga said Satar had rung him on the mobile phone of his
brother, Danilo, after confirming the time that Danilo would be
visiting Muianga (who is incarcerated in the Maputo Civil Prison,
charged with the attempted murder of lawyer Albano Silva in
1999). He said the call had taken place at around 19.00 one day
last week.

Asked to recall the contents of the call, Muianga was
reluctant to speak initially, because Satar had used an obscene
phrase. Paulino authorised him to repeat it, whereupon Muianga
said Satar had asked him "Don't you want to fuck up Frangoulis ?"
(the former head of the Maputo Criminal Investigation Police, who
was in charge of most of the investigation into the Cardoso
murder).

Muianga said he had replied: "I'm not interested in fucking
up anybody, just in telling the truth".

Satar denied making the phone call. He claimed it had been
placed "by someone imitating my voice".

Given the poor quality of the tape, Paulino ordered that a
full transcript be made and delivered to the court within five
days.

One piece of evidence given by Muianga, however, does put
Frangoulis on the spot. He claimed that Frangoulis had asked him
to change his story, and switch the venue of the alleged meetings
from the Rovuma Hotel "to the house of Nyimpine Chissano" (son of
President Joaquim Chissano). Muianga refused to make this change.

According to Muianga, these meetings were plotting, not the
murder of Cardoso, but a second attempt to assassinate Albano
Silva. He alleges that Frangoulis wanted the story changed
"because of problems with the room numbers".

(Initially, in March 2001, Muianga claimed the meetings took
place in room 105 or 106. But there are no rooms with these
numbers in the Rovuma. After a variety or wildly different
statements, Muianga now claims not to remember either the number
of the room or even which floor it was on.)

Given Muianga's testimony, the defence lawyers are now
demanding that Frangoulis be called back to the witness stand.

Muianga's reliability as a witness has also been undermined
by the records of the mobile phone company, M-Cel. These show
that he was in constant phone contact with Momade Satar, and with
Anibal dos Santos Junior ("Anibalzinho"), the man accused of
organising the death squad, in the days immediately preceding and
immediately following Cardoso's murder.

Yet Muianga told the court that months earlier he had
decided to cut his ties with Anibalzinho and Satar. So what were
these phone calls all about ?, asked Paulino.

Muianga claimed the calls were "all about money", including
money he owed Satar for a car he had rented.

As for Nyimpine Chissano, Muianga claimed he had once done
some work for his company, Expresso Tours, for which he had been
paid 3,000 rands (about 300 US dollars at current exchange
rates). This had involved asking people to lend their cars
(preferably Mercedes saloons) to Expresso Tours so that it could
hire them out for a large conference.

Muianga said he had obtained this work thanks to former
customs official Candida Cossa, who was the lover of his cousin,
Pedro Bule, and also a friend of Nyimpine Chissano.

The name of Candida Cossa is appearing repeatedly in this
trial, and she will probably be called to the witness stand on
Friday to give her own version of events.
(AIM)
pf/ (775)

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DAY 13
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191202E CARDOSO MURDER: NINI SATAR VS NYIMPINE CHISSANO

Maputo, 6 Dec 2002 (AIM) - Maputo loan shark Momade Assife Abdul Satar
("Nini") on Friday confronted Nyimpine Chissano, the oldest son
of President Joaquim Chissano, across the floor of the Maputo
City Court, with completely different versions of their
relations.

Cheques signed by Nyimpine Chissano are now at the heart of
the trial of Satar, and five others, charged with the November
2000 murder of Mozambique's top investigative journalist, Carlos
Cardoso.

Satar claims he lent Chissano 1.2 billion meticais (about
50,000 US dollars) in late 2000, and the cheques were issued as
guarantees. He says he paid the money, at Chissano's request, to
Anibal dos Santos Junior ("Anibalzinho"), with no questions
asked.

Anibalzinho, currently a fugitive, is the man accused of
organising the death squad that murdered Cardoso. Satar claims he
only realised the 1.2 billion meticais was to pay for a contract
killing when he met Anibalzinho in prison in 2001.

At the request of Satar's defence lawyer, Eduardo Jorge,
Judge Augusto Paulino confronted Satar and Chissano. Both stuck
to their stories.

Satar said he had met "on several occasions" with Chissano -
"two or three times" at the Unicambios foreign exchange bureau
(owned by his brother, and fellow accused, Ayob Abdul Satar),
"two or three times" at Chissano's company Expresso tours, and
twice at the Polana Hotel.

In addition, the two had met several times at the home of
Candida Cossa, a former customs official turned entrepreneur and
friend of Chissano. Satar said that Cossa accompanied Chissano on
two of his visits to Unicambios.

Chissano retorted "I met with this individual once at
Unicambios. None of these other meetings took place"

As for business deals between them, Satar claimed he had
arranged money transfers for Chissano. He said that in early
2000, at Chissano's request, he sent money to a London account of
Teeran Appasamy, a Mauritian businessman, whom Chissano has
described as a friend and a business colleague.

Satar also described, but with no details, another, obscure,
deal in which a Satar credit was sold on by Chissano to the
cooperative bank Credicoop.

Later in 2000 came the 1.2 billion meticais loan, and the
cheque guarantees, signed by Chissano, on an Expresso Tours
account held in Credicoop.

Again Chissano Jr flatly denied that any of this had ever
taken place. "I never had any business dealings with Nini", he
said.

As for the cheques - Satar insisted he had collected them in
person from Chissano at Expresso tours, and had signed a receipt
for them, while Chissano declared "I never gave Nini any cheques
anywhere".

At this point the two began insulting each other. Chissano
called Satar a liar, while Satar said "he's deceiving the court".

Judge Paulino intervened: "The court will decide who is
deceiving or not deceiving", he said. "Your opinion is
irrelevant. The court will decide whether it's a lie or the
truth".

The court also asked confessed assassin Carlitos Rashid to
confirm whether the man in the witness stand was indeed the man
he had seen with Anibalzinho on three occasions, before and after
the murder, and whom Anibalzinho had told him was Nyimpine
Chissano.

Rashid confirmed the identification. "Anibalzinho told me
''that's the boss''", he said. "I always had to stay hidden in
the car. But I saw him from there"

In a torrent of words, before the judge could stop him,
Rashid added that he believed that Nyimpine Chissano had put a
price on his head and that of a second member of the hit squad,
Manuel Fernandes ("Escurinho"). "It's true we were to be
eliminated", he exclaimed. "Anibalzinho had 70,000 rands for
that".

Chissano simply replied "I don't know this wretched
individual".

Throughout the morning session, Chissano insisted that
Expresso Tours had issued the postdated cheques to cover a loan
from Candida Cossa, not from Satar. But when asked for details
about his company's financial arrangements, he either could not
remember dates and names, or told the court that it was not
really in his hands since "I don't handle the day to day
management of Expresso Tours".

It was the general manager, Antonio Malo, and his other
staff who did the routine management. He and the two other owners
of the company (his brother N'naite Chissano, and close friend
Apolinario Pateguana) "were informed of the reasons why the
company needed this or that. We needed a loan for the temporary
import of vehicles, and on that basis I signed the cheques".

He claimed that, after Cossa told him the cheques were at
Unicambios, his brother and Pateguana went round to claim them -
but without success.

In April 2001, lawyer Domingos Arouca wrote to Expresso
Tours pointing out that the money represented by the cheques
should have been delivered months previously (the seven cheques
bear dates of between October 2000 and January 2001).

At the trial Arouca represents Ayob Satar, but in April
2001, he had been hired by his brother Nini. Arouca told AIM he
had no doubt that the money was owed to Satar, not to Candida
Cossa.

Arouca's letter was accompanied by photocopies of six of the
cheques, totalling 1.125 billion meticais. He demanded that the
money be paid in his office within five days.

Expresso Tours did not reply, and Arouca prepared to take
the matter to court. But he said that Satar (who was already in
prison) told him not to pursue the matter further.
(AIM)
pf/ (891)

201202E CARDOSO MURDER: NYIMPINE CHISSANO ACCUSED OF LYING

Maputo, 6 Dec (AIM) - A Maputo weekly paper on Friday accused
businessman Nyimpine Chissano, oldest son of President Joaquim
Chissano, of lying to the Maputo City court.

Called as a witness in the Carlos Cardoso murder trial,
Chissano had said on Thursday that he had never worked for the
privatised Austral Bank. He claimed that he simply been a client,
with an account at the bank.

On Friday, cross examined by defence lawyer Eduardo Jorge,
he repeated this claim.

But the Friday issue of the independent weekly "Savana"
described this as "a blatant lie". Repeating a story it had first
published on 5 August, and which has never been denied, "Savana"
said that between 1997 and 2001 Nyimpine Chissano had been hired
as "a consultant on economic matters", advising the Malaysian
executive manager of the bank, Koonjambu Muganthan.

His salary for this post was 3,000 US dollars a month. In
1997, Chissano Jr was just 27 years old.

Austral collapsed under a mountain of bed debt in early
2001. The Malaysian-Mozambican consortium, headed by former
industry minister Octavio Muthemba, which owned 60 per cent of
Austral, refused to recapitalise the bank, and simply handed
their shares back to the state.

The Bank of Mozambique stepped in, appointing a provisional
board of directors under the chairmanship of Antonio Siba-Siba
Macuacua, the head of the central bank's banking supervision
department. He then started reviewing all the contracts signed
under the previous management.

According to "Savana", Nyimpine Chissano's contract was
among those cancelled by Siba-Siba. Chissano was told that his
services were no longer required: he was paid no compensation,
Siba-Siba told him that any money owing would be discounted
against his debts to the bank.

According to the survey carried out by the auditing firm
KPMG for Muganthan in September 2000, Nyimpine Chissano had taken
out two loans from Austral. Payments were up to date on one, a
housing loan for 4.9 billion meticais (about 206,000 US dollars).
But KPMG described a second loan, for 297 million meticais, as
"non-performing".

Chissano's Thursday testimony was also inaccurate as to his
whereabouts on 22 November 2000, the day Carlos Cardoso was
murdered. He told the court he had been at the birthday party of
his friend Araujo Martins. But "Savana" discovered that Martins'
birthday falls on 2 March, not 22 November.

So in court on Friday, Chissano Jr changed his testimony. "I
was wrong, it wasn't a birthday. We were just talking", he said.
He claimed he arrived at Martins' house "after 18.00", but could
not remember where he had been before. (Carlos Cardoso was
murdered at about 18.40.)
(AIM)
pf/ (424)

211202E CARDOSO MURDER: PATEGUANA SUPPORTS NYIMPINE CHISSANO

Maputo, 6 Dec 2002 (AIM) - Apolinario Pateguana ("Nanaio"), a business
partner of Nyimpine Chissano, oldest son of President Joaquim
Chissano, on Friday backed up Chissano's story that cheques
currently in the possession of the Maputo City Court had nothing
to do with the murder of journalist Carlos Cardoso in November
2000.

The cheques have been presented as evidence by Momade Assife
Abdul Satar ("Nini"), one of those accused of murdering Cardoso.
Satar claims Nyimpine Chissano issued the cheques (for 1.29
billion meticais - over 50,000 dollars) as guarantees to cover a
loan.

He says that, at Chissano's request, he gave the money to
Anibal dos Santos Junior ("Anibalzinho"), the fugitive accused or
organising the death squad that murdered Cardoso. When Satar met
Anibalzinho in prison, he becamse convinced that the money had
paid for the murder.

Chissano's story is that the cheques were issued to cover a
loan, not from Satar, but from businesswoman Candida Cossa. For
reasons that Chissano claimed not to know, Cossa then
"negotiated" the cheques with Unicambios, the foreign exchange
bureau owned by Satar's brother and co-accused, Ayob Abdul Satar.

Pateguana, son of the former governor of Inhambane province,
Francisco Pateguana, is one of the owners of the travel agency
and car hire firm Expresso Tours, alongside Nyimpine Chissano and
his brother N'naite.

He told the court that he, Nyimpine and N'naite first met
Nini Satar when they went to Unicambios "to help Candida Cossa
solve a problem she had with Nini". He dated this meeting to May
1999.

Cossa was in debt to Satar (who is a notorious loan shark)
"and she wanted us to persuade Nini to give her more time to
pay". Pateguana said they were "temporarily successful" in this.

They told Satar that they were buying a licence from Cossa
for the marketing of "brands of alcoholic drinks", so she would
soon be able to pay him. He said this deal was concluded in July
1999, when he and the Chissano brothers bought the licence from
Cossa for 205,000 US dollars.

(The dates given conflict with Nyimpine's evidence: he
claimed that he first met Cossa in late 1999, which would push
the meeting at Unicambios into 2000).

Pateguana said that he went to Unicambios again in June or
July 2000 to demand that the Satars return the cheques which had
improperly fallen into their hands.

Nini Satar promptly denied this version. He told the court
that Pateguana could not have demanded the cheques back in June
or July, since they were postdated, with dates of between October
2000 and January 2001.

He claimed that in August 2000 Pateguana, Nyimpine Chissano
and Antonio Malo, the Expresso Tours executive manager, visited
him to ask him not to deposit the cheques in any banks. At that
time, there was no question of redeeming the cheques, he said.

Pateguana also denied meeting any of the accused in Candida
Cossa's house. Earlier in the trial, claims were made that
conspiratorial meetings were held in Cossa's house, attended by
Cossa, Nyimpine, Pateguana, Nini Satar and Anibalzinho,
discussing plans to murder the then head of the government's
Customs Restructuring Unit, Pedro Bule, and Carlos Cardoso.

Pateguana said he had attended a series of "social
gatherings" in Cossa's house, and he had never seen any of the
accused there.
(AIM)
pf/ (529)

221202E CARDOSO MURDER: THE BUSINESSES OF CANDIDA COSSA

Maputo, 6 Dec 2002 (AIM) - At the age of 26 Maria Candida Cossa was a
simple customs officer: today, at the age of 36, this attractive,
smartly dressed woman talks of sums such as 800,000 rands or
450,000 dollars, as if they were amounts that anyone might have
in their pocket.

Testifying on Friday in the trial of the six men accused of
murdering Mozambique's best known journalist, Carlos Cardoso,
Cossa described herself as an entrepreneur, but made no attempt
to explain where her wealth came from.

After leaving the customs service ten years ago, in quick
succession she ran a poultry farm, a supermarket, a boutique,
represented brands of whisky, and owned a bakery. She also became
a close friend of Nyimpine Chissano, the oldest son of President
Joaquim Chissano, and it is in this capacity that her name has
been repeatedly mentioned in the trial.

She has become Nyimpine Chissano's alibi. Chissano claims
that the cheques for 1.29 billion meticais (over 50,000 US
dollars) that he signed, and which fell into the hands of Momade
Assife Abdul Satar, one of those accused of ordering Cardoso's
murder, were intended to guarantee a loan from Cossa.

On Thursday, Chissano said his company Expresso Tours needed
a short term loan to cover unexplained demands from suppliers. So
he turned, not to any bank, but to Cossa for the money, and the
company gave her a series of post-dated cheques as guarantees.

Cossa's story from the witness stand was very different. The
first deals she did with Nyimpine Chissano, his brother N'naite,
and their friend Apolinario Pateguana, concerned luxury cars.

They asked her how she had obtained her cars, and if she
could help them buy luxury vehicles. "I facilitated the purchases
of three Mercedes, two S-class models and one E-class", she said.

The total cost was over 800,000 rands (80,000 dollars at
today's exchange rate). "I didn't import the vehicles", said
Cossa. "I presented them (the Chissano brothers and Pateguana) at
the place where I had brought the cars. We then took the cars to
Maputo".

Payment was by instalments: a down-payment of 260,000 rands
was made "and I then collected money from them to send to the
Standard Bank". Cossa added that not all of this debt had been
paid off.

As for the loan she had made to Nyimpine, Cossa said she had
done this because he was about to be hauled before a South
African court. She said they had both been on a trip to
Johannesburg, when they were told that the following day Nyimpine
would have to appear in a Pretoria court "because of a problem
with cars".

In short, the "Budget Rent-a-Car" company was suing
Chissano's company Expresso tours over unpaid bills.

Cossa said that Nyimpine's concern was to keep his name out
of the South African press: to do this he needed, very urgently,
to find some money to pay Budget Rent-a-Car, and that company was
demanding an immediate payment of 250,000 rands.

Cossa said she contacted a friend in South Africa (whom she
declined to name) who agreed to put up the 250,000 rands, against
Cossa's own vehicle as guarantee. Once they were back in Maputo,
Cossa lent a further 30,000 dollars, in cash, to Expresso Tours
to clear the debt to Budget Rent-a-Car.

Cossa confirmed that, at the request of one of the accused,
former bank manager Vicente Ramaya, she lent Zulfikar Sulemane, a
businessman in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, 450,000
dollars. She made cheques to this amount out to Ramaya - but the
money has still not been repaid.

She said that Ramaya had gone to the Cabo Delgado provincial
capital, Pemba, to persuade Sulemane to repay, but without
success. She went there herself, and Sulemane signed a document
admitting that he owed her the money.

She said she also did business with the consultancy office
Ramaya was operating from his house. He helped her out on a
project to "represent" Nestle branded produce.

"I frequented his office, he gave me invoices and I paid in
cash for the Nestle products", she said. The total amount
involved was 3.5 million rands (350,000 dollars), she said.

Despite her willingness to lend money to Sulemane/Ramaya,
and to Expresso Tours, Cossa herself ran up a debt with Momade
Satar.

She said that unspecified building work ground to a halt
"because the bank cut the funding" (not altogether surprising -
by mid-2000, Cossa had outstanding loans of almost three billion
meticais to the Austral Bank, which were not being repaid).

So she borrowed money from a man named Gulamo Shabir, who
took a post-dated cheque as a guarantee. He "negotiated the
cheque with Unicambios" (the foreign exchange bureau owned by
Satar's brother and co-accused, Ayob Abdul Satar).

When the cheque fell due, Unicambios came to collect the
money - by then she owed 130,000 dollars. Momade Satar "sent two
people round", she said. "They were demanding the money and
threatening me".

No doubt we will discover how she circumvented the
Unicambios enforcers on Monday, when she continues giving her
evidence.
(AIM)
pf/ (870)

231202E CARDOSO MURDER: INTIMIDATION "MUST NOT PREVAIL"

Maputo, 6 Dec 2002 (AIM) - Attempts to intimidate officials linked to
the administration of justice "must not prevail", Augusto
Paulino, the presiding judge in the Carlos Cardoso murder trial,
told the Maputo city court on Friday.

He was referring to a burglary on Thursday at the home of
Mourao Baluce, the attorney prosecuting the six men accused of
murdering Mozambique's top investigative journalist in November
2000. It is feared that the burglary was a warning sent to Baluce
by those who want to abort this case.

According to the Attorney-General, Joaquim Madeira, an
unknown individual visited Baluce's home on Tuesday. He told
Baluce's wife that he had come from the Attorney-General's
Office, to undertake work on the house.

Taken in, Baluce's wife allowed him to visit various rooms
in the house. The man left, promising to return with a budget for
the building work necessary.

But there was no such mission from the Attorney-General's
Office, and Madeira presumed the man was simply reconnoitring the
house in preparation for the burglary.

The house was broken into on Thursday morning, while
Baluce's wife was out shopping. Madeira did not reveal what had
been stolen.

He said it was important to inform the public "so that they
know we are the target of threats".

"The Public Prosecutor's Office is not going to drop this
case", said Madeira, "but we want our security guaranteed".

It is nothing short of astonishing that there is no
effective guard on the home of the man prosecuting the most high
profile criminal case in Mozambique's history.

At the start of the Friday court sessions, Paulino added his
voice to the demands for proper protection. "We must be able to
live without fear, and work without fear", he insisted.
(AIM)
pf/ (290)

241202E CARDOSO MURDER: JUDGE REFUTES CRITICS

Maputo, 6 Dec 2002 (AIM) - Judge Augusto Paulino on Friday rejected
criticism for those who believe the Maputo City court is calling
"too many witnesses" in the Carlos Cardoso murder trial.

In remarks at the close of the day's session, Paulino
revealed that the court is under attack in some quarters for
calling to the witness stand people who were not heard at earlier
stages of the proceedings.

This can only refer to the decision to sub-poena Nyimpine
Chissano, the oldest son of president Joaquim Chissano, his
friends and associates Apolinario Pateguana and Candida Cossa,
and former industry minister Octavio Muthemba.

"Some people think this court has lost its sense of
direction", said Paulino. "No we haven't ! Every exercise we are
undertaking here is a line in our final ruling".

"All that we are doing is in accordance with the law, and in
order to discover the truth", he insisted. "We are on the path
towards clarifying the entire situation".

The main job of the court was not to sentence people, but to
clarify the truth. "The sentence then arises as a consequence of
the clarification", he said.

"From contradiction to contradiction, we clear up the case",
declared Paulino.
(AIM)
pf/ (205)

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1-Os interesses da Belle Beach

(Maputo) A Belle Beach Holdings (BBH), proprietaria da Expresso Tours, tem
uma seria de negocios em carteira, planos de investimento na indostria do
turismo. A BBH adquiriu a "Expresso Tours Lda", ha poucos anos ao preço de
1,3 milhoes de USD. Esta agencia de viagens actua em excursoes
(fundamentalmente para a RAS), aluguer de viaturas (tem quase o exclusivo
de fornecimento de viaturas a conferencias internacionais envolvendo o
Governo), tem na Praia do Bilene seis apartamentos e estava ha bem pouco
tempo a construir 40 bangalos, um restaurante e outras estruturas.

A sociedade, onde sao parceiros Nyimpine Chissano, Apolinario Pateguana,
Teeren Appasamy (um cidadao mauriciano; Belle Beach e tambem nome de um
complexo turistico em Gaza), N'naite Chissano e Egas Mussanhane, adquiriu
6 hectares nas barreiras da Maxaquene para construçao de 40 apartamentos,
tem uma cota para 400 toneladas de camarao e 120 de peixe, tem 200
hectares de terra em Vilankulo para construir um hotel de luxo e tem
planos para mais um hotel em cabo de Sao Sebastiao (perto de Vilankulo),
onde o Ministro John Kachamila, em parceria com empresarios sul africanos,
tem interesses que conflituam com os da populaçao local.

A BBH possui ainda um plano para um hotel de luxo na Ponta do Ouro, um
outro para um Centro de Conferencias em Maputo, mais hotel e Centro
Comercial (recorde-se que no ano passado, uma porçao de terra em frente do
Ministerio da Defesa, em Maputo, havia sido vedada para obras; as nossas
fontes dizem que se tratava de mais um investimento ligado a Nyimpine
Chissano). Ha o registo de a Belle Beach possuir igualmente 2 hectares de
terra com vista para o mar destinados a construçao de apartamentos de
luxo, havendo igualmente intençoes de construçao de uma fabrica de papel
higienico em Maputo. (M.M.)
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2-As ligaçoes empresariais dos filhos de Chissano
(Maputo) Para alem da Tristar Car Rental, onde os dois filho do PR sao
socios de Apolinario Pateguana (ha o registo de uma Tristar Trading em
formaçao), Nyimpine e N´naite estao ligados a uma serie de figuras nos
seus interesses empresariais. Os dois sao socios na M.C.M. Investimentos
Ltda, uma empresa que estava ligada aos filhos do primeiro presidente da
Frelimo, Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane, nomeadamente Nyleleti e Eduardo
Mondlane Junior.

Em 1997, Nyeleti Brook Mondlane cedeu a Nyimpine Joaquim Chissano uma
quota de 3 milhoes de Mts. Por sua vez, Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane Jonior
cedeu a Nyimpine Joaquim Chissano uma quota de 2 milhoes de Mts. Tambem
Pedro Jeremias Manjate, companheiro de Nyeleti e amigo de Nyimpine (ele e
testemunha de Nyimpine no processo de difamaçao que o filho do PR moveu
contra o antigo jornal Metical), cedeu a Nyimpine Joaquim Chissano uma
quota de 5 milhoes de Mts. Assim, Nyimpine, que ja possuia acçoes neste
empresa, passou a ter na sociedade uma quota de 20 milhoes de Mts (50% do
capital social).

Existe igualmente a Enfo Consultores Ltda, mas aqui Nyimpine nao entra.
Sao socios N'Naite Chissano, Egidio Jose de Fausto Leite, Carlos Roberto
Fehlberg Pereira, Juliao Pondeca (um dos admnistradores da Electricidade
de Moçambique e PCA da Motraco, a empresa que fornece energia electrica a
Mozal) e Oliver Tandane. No CD-Rom produzido pela Pandora Box sobre as
sociedades comerciais, de nome HERMES (um utilissimo instrumento de
pesquisa, passe a publicidade) constam varias referencias a entidades onde
Nympine e socio. Consta a GMI Motors (onde faz sociedade com Florencia
Infante, Gerard Worth, Jose Marcelino Zacarias e a Sotux). Segue-se a MM
Trading Limitada, onde, para alem de Nyimpine, sao socios Nyeleti Mondlane
e a Jezy, Sociedade de Participaçoes e Consultoria. Ainda nao conseguimos
saber de que e a Jezy.

A SOTUX e uma Sociedade Internacional de Comercio de Bens, do empresario
Alvaro Massingue. O mediaFAX sabe que Massingue esta ligado a um novo
projecto de ensino superior privado em Moçambique, que funcionara nas
instalaçoes onde o ISPU deu os primeiros passos.
Existe igualmente a Locomotivas Economicas (esta empresa chegou a comprar
o caderno de encargos na primeira fase do concurso poblico para o segundo
operador de telefonia movel em Moçambique, mas tera desistido). Nas
Locomotivas, Nyimpine Chissano e socio de Octavio Filiano Muthemba, que
devera ser ouvido amanha no Tribunal que julga o caso Carlos Cardoso, na
qualidade de declarante, mas fundamentalmente porque foi citado como tendo
sido um dos alegados mandantes.

Para alem de Muthemba, os restantes socios de Nyimpine sao: Casimiro
Huate, deputado da AR pela Frelimo, PCA do Fundo de Fomento Ambiental,
Elias Zimba, Joao Baptista Colaço Jamal, Nyeleti Mondlane, Samora Moises
Machel Jonior, Vicente Veloso, PCA da Electricidade de Moçambique,
Manuesse Mocumbi, parente do Primeiro Ministro, Juliao Pondeca e Jose
Zumbire, Director do Serviço de Informaçao e Segurança do Estado. O
objecto social desta organizaçao vai deste a exploraçao de recursos
naturais ate o agenciamento de viagens, passando pela incontornavel
importaçao de bens de consumo, etc.

Nyimpine nao se fica por aqui, dado que e igualmente socio da Djabule
Trading Company, juntamente com um cidadao de nome Julius Seffgu, virada
para o transporte de carga e passageiros, entre outros. Existe ainda a
Rovuma Internacional, onde Nyimpine e socio juntamente com Kai Crooks
Chissano, sua mulher de casamento, de ascendencia jamaicana, de quem esta
entretanto separado. A Rovuma Internacional foi registada para se dedicar
ao comercio internacional de bens e serviços e ao agenciamento. Segue-se a
Ponta Tripla, com Omaia Salimo e Maria Nhaguinombe Joao, vocacionada a
participaçoes sociais. (M.M.)
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3-Dudu confirma
Os alvos eram o "saloio" (Albano Silva) e o "incomodo"
(Maputo) A testemunha da acusaçao no caso do assassinato do jornalista
Carlos Cardoso, Osvaldo Muianga, mais conhecido por Dudu, confirmou na
terça feira a ligaçao entre os alegados autores materiais (sobretudo
Anibalzinho) e os morais do assassinato do jornalista.
Essencialmente, Dudu confirmou terem havido reunioes no Hotel Rovuma, onde
alguns dos reus conversaram sobre a falhanço do atentado ao advogado
Albano Silva, em Novembro de 1999, e estabeleceram-no novamente como alvo
a abater.

Dudu disse ter visto nessas reunioes os reus Anibalzinho, Nini, Ayob Satar
e Vicente Ramaya. Ao confirmar essas reunioes, Dudu da fundamento a teoria
de que os reus tinham aquilo a que se chama de "designio criminoso".
A testemunha confirmou ter sido portadora de pagamentos de Nini a
Anibalzinho para os preparativos do assassinato do advogado, que era
tratado como "saloio". "Fui buscar ao Nini 100 milhoes de Meticais para
pagar a Anibalzinho", contou ele. Mais tarde, ele recebeu um telefonema de
Nini a pedir para informar a Anibalzinho de que a operaçao tinha de ficar
cancelada "porque nao era oportuna".
Dudu prestou esta informaçao a Anibalzinho, que tera reagido com
desagrado. Ele explicou que nas reunioes do Rovuma nao houve qualquer
mençao ao nome de Carlos Cardoso, mas contou semanas depois da ordem para
o cancelamento do assassinato de Albano Silva ouvir uma conversa entre
Nini e Anibalzinho, ao telefone, onde falavam do "incomodo". "Ate cheguei
a pensar que o incomodo era eu dado que eu conhecia dos planos de
assassinato do advogado. Falavam de um incomodo".
Esta referencia parece ser importante na medida em que, se os reus
tratavam Albano Silva por "salaio", entao "incomodo" tinha de ser outra
pessoa, alguem que os incomodava de facto. Cabera ao tribunal determinar
se esse "incomodo" era Carlos Cardoso. A motivaçao do crime, tal como
consta na acusaçao, leva para ai.
Na audiçao de terça feira, Dudu foi "bombardeado" pelos advogados de
defesa, principalmente por Gani Hassane (que defende Ramaya) e Eduardo
Jorge (que defende Nini), que optaram pela via da descredibilizaçao da
testemunha. Um outro advogado, Domingos Arouca (que defende Ayob Satar)
chegou a pedir a nulidade do depoimento da testemunha considerando que ela
admitiu ter participado nas reunioes. Mas Arouca exigiu essa nulidade
depois de a testemunha ter sido interrogada pela acusaçao. De acordo com
parecer fornecido ao mediaFAX, a exigencia da nulidade tinha de ter sido
feita antes da testemunha depor. (da redacçao)

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Nyimpine amnesico e inseguro

O filho do PR desmentiu todas as alegaçoes de Nini e optou pelo "nao me
recordo" para responder a muitas questoes

(Maputo) Nyimpine Chissano irrompeu na tenda-tribunal da BO com um ar
a-vontade, mas nao se mostrou seguro em muitas das respostas dadas ao
juiz. Ele desmentiu todas as alegaçoes de Momad Assif, como era de
esperar, e respondeu com um "nao me recordou" a tantas outras questoes.
Hoje, Nyimpine regressa ao Tribunal para responder a perguntas da acusaçao
particular e do advogado de Nini.

A insegurança do filho do PR foi notoria quando se lhe pediu para
esclarecer as suas ligaçoes com Pedro Bule e Candida Cossa. Numa primeira
ocasiao, ele disse que conheceu Pedro Bule porque foi-lhe apresentado por
Candida Cossa; que conhecera Candida entre 1998/1999.
Mas numa outra ocasiao, ele disse que foi Candida quem lhe apresentara
Pedro Bule em casa da primeira. E acrescentou, logo a seguir, que
conhecera Candida e Bule ao mesmo tempo, em casa de Candida, depois de ter
sido convidado a embarcar num negocio comum virado a importaçao de
mercadorias diversas.

A segunda insegurança foi quando se lhe perguntou onde tinha jantado no
dia 22 de Novembro de 2000, data do assassinato do jornalista. Nyimpine
disse que tinha jantado em casa, mas que antes estivera no aniversario de
um cidadao de nome Araojo Martins. Ontem mesmo, a redacçao do jornal
SAVANA recebeu um telefonema de um parente de Martins que disse que este
senhor completa anos no mes de Março e nao em Março.
A outra insegurança de Nyimpine neste assunto foi notoria quando o
Tribunal perguntou quando e como e que soube do assassinato de CC. Ele
respondeu que soube por volta da 19 horas, atraves da TVM, ainda estava na
casa de Araojo Martins. Quando Carlos Cardoso foi assassinato eram 18h45 e
a TVM so viria a anunciar o facto pela primeira vez, com imagens nao
editadas, no Telejornal da 20 horas.
Por outras palavras, se ele tomou conhecimento pela TVM so pode ter sido
no Telejornal, as 20 horas.
Outra insegurança de Nyimpine foi nas respostas sobre a sua ligaçao com a
Unicambios.
Ele, numa primeira declaraçao, disse que nao tinha nenhum negocio com Nini
Satar, apenas com a Unicambios. Mas a seguir disse que a sua empresa
"nunca passou cheques para a Unicambios", nao ficando claro, pois, qual
era a natureza dos seus negocios com a empresa dos irmaos Satar.

Nyimpine tambem causou alguma admiraçao ao dizer que nunca trabalhou no
Banco Austral. O jornal SAVANA volta noticiar na sua ediçao de hoje que o
filho do PR desempenhava, neste banco, o titulo de conselheiro economico
do Conselho de Administraçao da era de Octavio Muthemba, com um ordenado
mensal de 3000 USD. Muthemba foi por ele identificado como pessoa com quem
tem "relaçoes de amizade".

A estrategia adoptada por Nyimpine foi negar todo e qualquer vinculo com
os reus, exceptuando Nini, mas este "desde que a Candida me apresentou
nunca falei com ele nem ao telefone nem em presença fisica, nem na
Unicambios, muito menos na Expresso Tours". No esforço de mostrar a
inexistencia de relaçoes com Nini, ele disse que "nao se recordava" quando
e que travara conhecimento pela primeira vez com aquele reu. Como se
sabe, um declarante vai a Tribunal para ajudar no processo de produçao de
prova, nao sendo obrigado a responder as questoes colocados. Por outro
lado, em todo o mundo, a Lei permite o direito ao esquecimento, e Nyimpine
usou essa estrategia em muitas das questoes colocadas.
Ate a pergunta sobre quando e que ele regressara dos Estados Unidos da
America, onde esteve a estudar, ele disse nao se recordar. (Marcelo Mosse)
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Para obter cash flow
Expresso Tours recorria ao mercado paralelo de credito
(Maputo) Nyimpine Chissano revelou que a sua empresa, Expresso Tours,
recorria ao mercado de credito paralelo para conseguir cash flow para as
suas operaçoes. "Quando a empresa precisava de dinheiro, pediamos
emprestimos e passavamos os cheques como garantia", disse ontem o filho do
PR, tentando justificar o negocio subjacente aos cheques que Nini entregou
ao Tribunal como prova da sua inocencia.
Recorde-se, Nini confessou ter feito pagamentos a Anibalzinho; disse que
esses pagamentos tinham sido feitos por indicaçao de Nyimpine; para
consubstanciar isso apresentou 7 cheques da Expresso Tours, com a
assinatura de Nyimpine.

Ontem, o filho do PR disse nao saber como e que os cheques foram parar as
maos de Nini. Contou que aqueles cheques tinham sido passados a favor de
Candida Cossa, na sequencia de um credito que esta senhora fizera a
Expresso Tours. "Precisavamos de dinheiro para pagar o fornecimento de
terceiros e passamos o cheque como garantia de reembolso. Logo que os
nossos clientes liquidavam as suas dividas, nos devolviamos o dinheiro
para reaver os cheques", explicou ele. Alguns cheques, alegou, nunca lhe
chegaram a ser devolvidos.
Nyimpine disse que era normal a Expresso Tours fazer pagamentos de cheques
ao portador como prova de reembolso de creditos. Nyimpine vai responder
hoje a perguntas da acusaçao particular e da defesa, concretamente do
advogado do reu Nini, Eduardo Jorge.(M.M.)
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Ele falou com o Metical
(Maputo) Nyimpine disse ontem que nunca falou com Carlos Cardoso ou com
qualquer outro jornalista do Metical. Ele esta a mentir. Na ediçao 472,
de 07.05.1999, o Metical publicou um texto sob o titulo "Nyimpine nao
confirma nem desmente". Eis as passagens relevantes do texto, notando-se
claramente que Nyimpine foi entrevistado pelo Metical: "Nyimpine Chissano,
o filho do PR, nao confirma nem desmente que agrediu dois policias na 2ª
esquadra da PRM em Maputo, no sabado a tarde. Num brevissimo contacto
telefonico com ele, ontem, referimos-lhe a noticia surgida no DEMOS desta
semana e perguntamos-lhe se era verdade. 'Nao tenho comentario a fazer
sobre isso'.
E verdade que o sr. esteve na esquadra?
'Nao tenho comentario a fazer sobre isso. Obrigado'. E desligou".
Numa outra ocasiao, Nyimpine chegou a insultar um reporter do Metical,
dizendo que o jornal nao tinha nada que o interrogar, que ele nao era o
Presidente da Repoblica, que o jornal podia fazer isso com o PR mas nao
com ele, que ele nao permitiria que isso voltasse a acontecer.
Foi esta postura que fez com que o editor Carlos Cardoso tomasse a decisao
de nunca mais voltar a tentar ouvir Nyimpine nos artigos em que ele fosse
visado. Essa decisao de CC pode ser lida no post scriptum do texto "Filho
do PR vai gerir a Lotarias?", de que publicamos partes relevantes nesta
ediçao. (da redacçao)
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In Metical de 20.02.98 Nº166
Filho do PR vai gerir a Lotarias?
(Maputo) Uma empresa de capitais malaios, da qual, alegadamente, faz parte
o conhecido filho do PR, Nhimpine Chissano, esta a tentar gerir a empresa
de Apostas Mutuas de Mocambique (E.E). Trata-se da Afrasia. Um funcionario
da Inspecçao Geral de Jogos confirmou-nos o interesse de Nhimpine e dum
malaio de nome Abdul Satar, na gestao daquela empresa. Um outro
funcionario senior daquela instituiçao, o Inspector Geral de Jogos,
Antonio Sumburane, confirmou-nos que a Afrasia pediu autorizaçao para
abrir lotarias. Foi-lhe explicado que uma empresa privada, com fins
lucrativos, nao pode por lei (13/93), ser proprietaria de lotarias e
actividades similares em Mocambique.
So o podem fazer entidades nao lucrativas. Duas delas vao receber
autorizacoes nesta area, confirmou ele. Uma e a FDC de Graça Machel. Essa
lei inclui a ''exploraçao de lotarias, totobola e concessoes de jogo'' nas
actividades a serem exercidas em ''regime de exclusividade'' pelo Estado.
Segundo Antonio Sumburane, a IGJ disse a Afrasia que o que a Lotarias
podia fazer legalmente era contratar uma empresa privada para a gerir. E
confirmou-nos o interesse da Afrasia nessa opçao, tendo Abdul Satar
regressado a Malasia para discutir o assunto com a sua empresa. Nao
conseguimos apurar se ja veio uma resposta.
Porque e que a gestao privada da lotarias nao vai a concurso publico?
''Nao e forçoso haver concurso, ja que se trata apenas de transferencia de
know how''. E acrescentou: "Eles oferecem-se para a gestao da empresa e
nos vamos ponderar''. Mas Sumburane especificou que o assunto esta agora
nas maos do Ministro do Plano e Financas, Tomas Salomao, o que da a
entender que a IGJ ja cumpriu a sua parte. Aparentemente, o ministro ainda
nao tomou a decisao.(...) (Carlos Cardoso)
Comentario do ''mt'':
*Que saibamos, a empresa lotarias sempre deu lucro. Caso isto seja
verdade, por que privatizar a sua gestao? Sem um argumento convincente,
portanto, nao concordamos com a privatizaçao. Transferencias de ''know
how'' fazem-nas quaisquer empresas, privadas ou estatais. Isso nao depende
do regime de propriedade das empresas. E, caso fosse necessario dar esse
passo, teria que ser por concurso publico - num caso destes,
exclusivamente para empresas nacionais. Nao concordamos com entregas
destas sem transparencia, seja a quem for, e muito menos quando tudo
aponta o envolvimento de um familiar
do PR.
*O leitor perguntara porque nao ouvimos Nhimpine. Nao o contactamos devido
a duas razoes: Em 97, quando de um nosso trabalho sobre o BPD, ele usou um
tom de ameaça para connosco e, esta semana, por causa de um outro trabalho
(ver ''mt'' 164), ele disse-nos claramente que nao queria falar mais
connosco. Estamos, pois, libertados da obrigaçao de ouvir a sua versao dos
factos. Se, no futuro, o Sr Nhimpine mudar de postura, naturalmente,
registaremos o que tiver para dizer.
In Metical de 20.02.98 Nº166

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THE PEOPLE INVOLVED
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Carlos Cardoso, investigative journalist and editor,
gunned down in Maputo 22 November 2000.
Carlos Manjate, driver, seriously injured

The trial opened 18 November and is being held in a marquee
(large tent) inside the walls of the maximum security prison.
The case is being heard by by the investigating magistrate
Augusto Paulino and four lay magistrates.

Accused of organising the murder:
+ Momade Assife Abdul Satar ("Nini")
+ Ayob Satar, brother of Nini and owner of an exchange house
+ Vicente Ramaya, former bank manager
Accused of carrying out the murder:
+ Anibal dos Santos Junior ("Anibalzinho"), who escaped from
prison and is being tried in absentia.
+ Manuel Fernandes ("Escurinho")
+ Carlos Rashid Cassamo ("Carlitos")

Lawyers for the prosecution:
+ Mourao Baluce for the Public Prosecutor's Office
+ Lucinda Cruz for the Cardoso family
+ Helder Matlaba for Carlos Manjate.
Lawyers for the defence:
+ Eduardo Jorge, representing Nini
+ Domingos Arouca, representing Ayob Satar
+ Abdul Gani, representing Ramaya
+ Simiao Cuamba, representing Anibalzinho and Escurinho
+ Samuel Valentim, representing Cassamo

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