Africa-Press – Angola. The Criminal Investigation Service (SIC) has arrested three more Portuguese citizens for alleged criminal association, document forgery, terrorism, and terrorist financing. Among those arrested is a journalist and founder of an association that educates hundreds of children previously excluded from the education system.
According to the SIC, these arrests occurred “as part of the investigation into criminal cases involving Angolans and two Russians.”
In a statement, the SIC said it had executed arrest warrants for Renato Samuel Camiquene Cambungo, 20, an online sales agent, Éder Gaspar da Costa, 42, a teacher, and Alfredo Armando Bumba, 31, a journalist, “for acts constituting the crimes of criminal association, document forgery, terrorism and financing of terrorism, as there is strong evidence in the records of their involvement in the production of material and dissemination of false information on social media, promotion of demonstrations and looting.”
Novo Jornal understands that Alfredo Bumba is a journalist for the economic weekly Expansão and founder of the Peace and Good Educational Center (CEPB), which welcomes and teaches literacy to 650 students who were previously outside the education system. The school has been operating for over 11 years in the Golf 2 neighborhood of the Kilamba Kiaxi municipality and has already taught hundreds of children to read and write.
The arrest, says the SIC, “is the result of a thorough ongoing investigation, which detected their direct participation in these events.”
The three detainees will be presented to the Public Prosecutor’s Office for further legal proceedings, while other investigations continue in this case, the SIC finally says.
On August 8, the Criminal Investigation Service (SIC) arrested two “Russian citizens” accused of recruiting and financing Angolans to produce propaganda material and spread false information on social media, promote demonstrations, and commit looting in the provinces of Luanda and Benguela. The day before, it had already arrested JURA’s national mobilization secretary and TPA journalist Carlos Tomé.
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