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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>The Mozambican man detained in South Africa for allegedly leading a group that carried out kidnappings with ransom demands in Mozambique faces a prison sentence of over 20 years, according to the arrest warrant to which Lusa had access.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn arrest warrant was issued in the Republic of Mozambique at the Criminal Division of the Judicial Court of Maputo City against Mr Esmael Maulide Ramos Nangy, who is wanted in the Republic of Mozambique to stand trial and answer for the crime of kidnapping (…), with a prison sentence of 16 to 20 years, and a crime of criminal association (…), with a prison sentence of 8 to 12 years,\u201d reads the arrest warrant issued by the South African judicial authorities on July 18, 2022.<\/p>\n

The document adds that the Maputo authorities requested the \u201cprovisional detention\u201d of the alleged leader of the kidnappings \u201cin the scope of Article 13 of the Extradition Treaty between the Government of South Africa and the Government of Mozambique\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mozambican Minister of the Interior, Arse\u0301nia Massingue, told the press in Maputo on Monday that Nangy was among those suspected of organizing the wave of kidnappings in the provincial capitals of Mozambique.<\/p>\n

However, South African lawyer Calvin Maile, the defence for the alleged, refuted Maputo\u2019s accusations at the first hearing at the Tembisa Magistrate Court on the outskirts of Johannesburg, calling Nangy a \u201crespected\u201d businessman with trucking business operating between Mozambique and South Africa, where he has permanent residence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe allegations were not aired in court. All we know at this point is that an employee of my client, a mechanic, was arrested on these charges in Mozambique. The allegations are that the vehicle he used was involved in kidnappings; my client owns that vehicle,\u201d the South African press on Tuesday reported Maile as saying.<\/p>\n

The South African lawyer did not specify the type of vehicle, but noted that his client was in South Africa \u201cat the time the kidnappings took place\u201d, questioning \u201cthe basis of the arrest for crimes in which he denies having any participation\u201d, adding, without specifying the number of victims involved, that \u201cNangy seems to have been accused of giving the kidnapping instruction to his employee\u201d.<\/p>\n

For her part, the wife of the alleged ringleader told the South African press that \u201cwe are afraid that he will be extradited to Mozambique\u201d. \u201cI will not accept my husband going to Mozambique until they show us what he did,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

South African magistrate Karien Brits considered it \u201creasonable\u201d to postpone the case until next Monday, January 16, so that South Africa could \u201cobtain the necessary documents\u201d from the Government of Mozambique regarding the extradition request.<\/p>\n

Esmael Maulide Ramos Nangy, 50, appeared at Tembisa Magistrates Court this Monday after being arrested at a luxury condominium in Centurion, on the outskirts of Pretoria, the South African capital, over the weekend.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Mozambique. 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