Africa-Press – Angola. The National Criminal Investigation Service (SIC) is investigating 500 small and medium-sized anti-corruption cases linked to crimes against public, economic, fiscal and financial assets.
The fact was announced, Friday, by the SIC spokesman, Manuel Halaiwa, during the workshop on combating corruption and money laundering, which took place in the amphitheater of its headquarters, in the municipality of Cacuaco, in Luanda.
He stated that many processes have been completed and are on trial, while others have already been condemned. “As seen at the level of the various provinces, the arrests of senior officials such as members of the Government, municipal administrators, provincial directors and others who, for being involved in crimes of embezzlement, were arrested and presented to the Public Ministry, gave rise to the preparatory instruction concluded, after being sent to a judge who proceeded with the due convictions”, said the SIC official.
Halaiwa also said that holding the workshop on combating corruption and money laundering is part of a permanent plan for updating and training staff, especially those directly linked to typical economic, financial and fiscal crimes.
“As part of the fight against corruption, the Executive drew up a plan for the continuous training of staff, looking at the dynamics that are needed at this time to provide a better service in this matter”, he reaffirmed.
The workshop was aimed at specialists and heads of SIC departments in the areas of Financial and Tax Offenses, Public Health, Environment and Precious Stones, Organized Crime, Cybernetics, Corruption in Ports and Airports in the country and was attended by 150 staff.
The training provided better theoretical and technical knowledge to the SIC specialists so that their action on the ground can be conducted quickly. “SIC has specialists and is increasingly preparing its staff to provide a better response to criminal action from a general point of view”, he added.
The deputy national director of the SIC, Pedro Lufungula, said at the start of the activity that the central department of the Ministry of the Interior will carry out, whenever possible, short-term technical training so that employees can respond, in a positive way, whenever they are called to act.
The activity was also attended by a North American delegation, made up of Jeff Cooper, Daniel Sambrano and Rachel, attorneys and a representative of the Assistance Office of the US Treasury Department who, in the end, had a meeting behind closed doors with the of the SIC’s Organized Crime Sectors, to draw up strategies to combat corruption, drug trafficking, tax and financial fraud.
Dismantled group of land swindlers
In the same context, SIC presented, Friday, a group made up of eight people, aged between 40 and 70 years old, who were dedicated to the illegal occupation and sale of land in the localities of Kikuxi, Urban District of Zango, municipality of Viana, in Luanda.
The corporation’s spokesman, Manuel Halaiwa, said that this work was possible through a criminal intelligence action that involved a segment of this network that led to the capture, in flagrante delicto, of those involved, at the moment when they intended to extort a peaceful citizen 43 years old, who was prevented from having access to her land due to the action of the invaders.
He pointed out that the offenders, for the consummation of the acts, used muscular force, resorted to extortion, false identity, forgery of documents, as well as the imposition with the use of mixed violence, through young people who practice martial arts, in addition to individuals allegedly linked to Defense and Security bodies.
“In these locations, there are records of home demolitions. For this, the network uses elderly national citizens with characteristics of peasants who pretend to be the legitimate owners of these lands. They appropriate their Identity Cards to be used in counterfeiting of documents that the lands belonged to the former Office of Development and Hydraulic Use of Kikuxi and, also, forged documents of the Municipal Directorate of Infrastructure and Housing, in collusion with supposed inspection officials”, he indicated.
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