Africa-Press – Angola. The Deputy Attorney General of the Republic, Inocência Pinto, declared this Wednesday that the institution is working on investigations so that those guilty of corrupt practices in the private sector are convicted.
“Now the reality is different, the new Penal Code criminalizes corruption in the private sector and we are working to carry out these investigations so that those guilty of these practices are effectively convicted”, he said.
The magistrate, who was speaking on the sidelines
of the Regional Conference on Combating Corruption, clarified that for a long time corruption in the private sector had not been criminalized, “corruption was only repressed or fought in the public sector, hence the quality of the civil servant was necessary for the commission of the crime of corruption”.
Inocência Pinto made it known that, in relation to the private sector, the State is the biggest client, for whom it is within the scope of public procurement “that we find conducts likely to come to configure acts of corruption”.
The magistrate of the Public Prosecutor’s Office denied, however, that there was evasion of processes linked to public entities. “There has never been a process evasion (…)”.
Before being appointed Deputy Attorney General of the Republic, Inocência Pinto performed, among others, the role of national director for the Prevention and Fight against Corruption.
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