Africa-Press – Angola. The former municipal administrator of Nzeto and recent secretary of the Provincial Government of Zaire, Jeremias Timóteo, was arrested Thursday, in Mbanza Kongo, by the Criminal Investigation Service (SIC), on charges of the crime of embezzlement in the continuous form .
Accused of subtracting 62 million and 875 thousand kwanzas from the treasury, suspicions of economic participation in business, criminal association and money laundering also weigh on the former official.
The facts took place between 2016 and 2020, when he held the position of municipal administrator of Nzeto, according to the head of SIC’s institutional communication and press department, José Bernardo.
Speaking to the press, at the presentation, the SIC official said that Jeremias Timóteo, 54 years old, had created “ghost” companies where he allocated values under the pretext of supplying goods and services to local public institutions.
The head of the Provincial Government’s heritage department, Manuel Kiabanza da Silva, 35 years old, is also involved in the same process, who was also arrested and presented to the press.
SIC returns seven residences to the Provincial Government
The SIC together with the Public Ministry returned to the Provincial Government, as trustee, seven residences that had been improperly appropriated by former employees of the infrastructure office.
These are T3-type houses, built between 2012 and 2014 and intended for the rehousing of families who had been removed from areas targeted for urban requalification in the city of Mbanza Kongo.
According to the second Zaire provincial commander of the SIC, Serafim Coelho, the properties are part of the project called “100 houses” and the Genine condominium, located in the 11 de Novembro neighborhood, in the Bela Vista and Quilemos area, on the outskirts of the city of Mbanza Kongo.
He stated that the defendants, who remain at liberty, incur crimes of fraud by defrauding.
On the occasion, the head of the Inspection, Audit and Fight against Corruption department of the General Inspectorate of State Administration (IGAE), Miguel Lema Tuzunguidi, advised former public managers who still hold State assets to return them.
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