Africa-Press – Angola. The District Court of Lubango suspended the trial of the director of health and two employees of the sector, accused of embezzlement and forgery of documents, which began on Tuesday, due to the need to summon new declarants.
Thus, the evidence production phase resumes on the 1st of June, as decided by the judge in the case, after hearing the then only three deponents,Wednesday.
Luciana Guimarães’ defense lawyer, José Carlos, made it known that due to what was produced, there was a need to enlist new people in the process, but that they were already referenced in the instruction phase.
For the lawyer, it is important that these people are called to help better understand what really happened, especially in terms of the management of said money, noting that 15 days are enough to notify individuals.
In turn, Hélio Chiangalala’s defense lawyer, Kito Fernandes, said that so far only evidence has been produced, but he says that there were shortcomings in the preparatory instruction phase, as there were subjects who should be called for clarification purposes , but were discarded.
As defendants are listed the provincial director of Health, Luciana Guimarães, the former head of the Provincial Department of Public Health and Control of Endemic Diseases (DPSPCE) of Huíla, Hélio Chiangalala, a Diagnostic and Therapeutic technician, placed in the statistics area, and the former manager of Hotel INFOTUR.
At issue is the alleged embezzlement of three million kwanzas, remaining out of a total of 27 million made available by the National Directorate of Public Health to fund the training of technicians from that department on entering data into the digital platform called DHIS2.
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