Africa-Press – Angola. The Attorney General of the Republic, Hélder Fernando Pitta Gróz, sworn in this Wednesday (April 26) by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, began yesterday a second term of five years, after the first, exercised between December 2017 and April 2023.
Hélder Fernando Pitta Gróz was appointed by the Head of State on Tuesday, following a vote and a proposal by the Superior Council for the Magistracy of the Public Ministry.
Here is the profile of the Attorney General of the Republic:
Hélder Fernando Pitta Gróz was born on March 19, 1956, in the province of Luanda, Republic of Angola.
He attended primary and secondary school at Liceu Colégio Cristo Rei Maristas and at Liceu Salvador Correia.
He has a degree in Law from Universidade Agostinho Neto and a post-graduate degree in Command and Direction from the Escola Superior de Guerra Angolana, in partnership with the Institute of National Defense of Portugal.
He holds a post-graduate degree in Police Sciences from the School of High Police Studies in France and Italy.
Finished the 1st cycle of Masters in Legal-Criminal Sciences at Agostinho Neto University.
Professional Experiences
He began his professional career as an Air Traffic Controller. Later, he was a bank clerk and high school teacher.
After Angola’s independence, on November 11, 1975, he was appointed ad-hoc defender at the labor court and in 1977 he joined the Armed Forces, the year in which the Military Court of the Armed Forces and the Military Prosecutor of the Forces were legally established. Angolan Armies.
From 1977 to 1979, he was a Criminal Investigator, posted in the provinces of Bié and Cuando Cubango.
From 1979 to 1984, he served as Military Prosecutor in the East Region, for the provinces of Moxico and Lunda, having subsequently been appointed, in 1986, as Military Prosecutor for the Luanda Region, in the province of Luanda, where he held in various departments of the Military Prosecutor’s Office.
From 1989 to 1990, he served as secretary general of the Association of Jurists of Angola.
He was appointed Deputy Attorney General of the Republic in 1989 and legal advisor to the Joint Military Political Commission in 1991, within the framework of the Bicesse agreements.
In 1992, he joined the General Staff of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) resulting from the integration of the extinct Popular Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA) and the guerrilla troops of UNITA, as a result of the Bicesse Accords, signed by the Government of Angola and UNITA, in Portugal, on 31 May 1991.
From 1992 to 1995, he held the position of Deputy Director of the Military Judicial Police, having subsequently been promoted to the position of Director.
From 2007 to 2017, he served as prosecutor of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) and Deputy Attorney General of the Republic for the Military Sphere, respectively, having been promoted to three-star general.
He was appointed Attorney General of the Republic on 19 December 2017, for a first five-year term.
He is president of the Association of African Prosecutors.
Other professional and academic experiences
He taught in courses for municipal prosecutors of the Attorney General’s Office and participated in the drafting of various legislation.
Attended Internship at the Attorney General of the Republic of Portugal, for three months.
Organization and Role of the Public Ministry
The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) was established on April 27, 1979 and, in the light of the Constitution of the Republic of Angola, is a State body with the function of representation, namely in the exercise of criminal action, defense of human rights of other natural and legal persons, the defense of legality in the exercise of the judicial function and the inspection of legality in the preparatory instruction phase of cases and with regard to the fulfillment of sentences.
The PGR enjoys administrative and financial autonomy and constitutes a hierarchical organic unit under the direction and management of the Attorney General of the Republic, appointed and dismissed by the President of the Republic, on the proposal of the Superior Council of the Magistracy of the Public Ministry, for a term of five years, renewable once.
The Attorney General of the Republic, in the exercise of his functions, is assisted by two Deputy Attorneys General of the Republic, one for the common sphere and the other for the military sphere.
The PGR’s essential bodies are the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP), the Superior Council of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (CSMMP) and the Military Prosecutor’s Office (PM).
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