Africa-Press – Angola. The Angolan Attorney General’s Office (PGR) will create a pilot unit in Luanda next year to change the way the Public Prosecutor’s Office prepares charges in district courts, the attorney general announced.
Helder Pitta Grós was speaking at the opening of the review meeting of the judicial regions, entities created in 2019 to supervise and coordinate the activity of all provincial structures of the PGR.
Currently, the PGR has five judicial regions: Luanda, Bengo and Cabinda; North; South; Center and East.
At stake is the preparation of charges with the criminal police or investigation bodies, according to a source from the PGR contacted by Lusa.
“A pilot unit for preparing charges will be created in Luanda at the beginning of next year, so we will do everything we can to ensure that other provincial bodies follow the same path and in this process the regional coordinators will have a relevant role in implementing this change in procedure”, indicated the head of the PGR.
Helder Pitta Grós also defended its own and autonomous facilities for the operation of the Public Prosecutor’s Office alongside the criminal police bodies, as well as the legal consecration of its powers for better performance, and the construction of PGR headquarters in the country’s new provinces, which increased from 18 to 21, as a result of the political-administrative division.
“We recognize the budgetary difficulties we face, however, the implementation of this measure is of great relevance because, in order to make our actions with the criminal police bodies more effective, we will need facilities that allow for better management of our human, technical and technological resources,” he added.
Pitta Grós reaffirmed the commitment to actions to combat corruption and pointed out violent crime, domestic violence, economic and financial crimes, vandalism of public property, fuel smuggling, crimes against fauna and flora and computer crimes as crimes that are among the PGR’s priorities “since they affect healthy coexistence in society and constitute real obstacles to the consolidation of the Democratic and Legal State”
Last week, the Attorney General of the Republic said in Botswana that, in recent years, the Angolan State has found damage to its treasury in the order of 100 billion dollars (94 billion euros) and recovered goods and assets worth around 6 billion dollars (5.6 billion euros) “which are being invested in social projects”.
Assets valued at around $12 billion (€11 billion) were seized or arrested, of which $3 billion (€2.8 billion) have already been subject to a final court decision.
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