Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Mozambican authorities have denied employing a Brazilian drug trafficker as a consular attache in the Mozambican consulate in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte.
The Brazilian federal police say that this man, Marcos Roberto de Almeida, was arrested on Saturday in Bolivia. The General Director of the Federal Police, Andrei Rodrigues, tod reporters that the police have aircraft on standby to fly Almeida from Bolivia to Brazil.
Almeida is better known as “Tutta” and is regarded as a leader of one of Brazil’s main criminal gangs, the First Capital Command (PCC). Before working for the PCC, Almeida was supposedly the commercial attache at the Mozambican consulate in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.
But on Monday, the Mozambican Foreign Ministry denied that Mozambique possesses an honorary consulate in Belo Horizonte, capital of Minas Gerais state, or anywhere else.
In March 2007, the Mozambican government appointed Deusdete Januario Goncalves as its honorary Consul in Minas Gerais. He held this post for 13 years. The then Mozambican Foreign Minister, Veronica Macamo, relieved Goncalves of his duties in July 2020.
The report that Almeida is using a Mozambican diplomatic passport was also untrue, the Ministry said, since he had never worked, directly or indirectly, for the Mozambican state.
Goncalves, however, when questioned by reporters, admitted that Almeida had indeed been hired – but at the time, he had no criminal record.
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