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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Mozambican police on Monday announced the detention of two men for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping of a businessman on 20 January in downtown Maputo, but said that the victim was \u201cstill in captivity\u201d.<\/p>\n

The spokesman for Mozambique\u2019s national criminal investigation service (Sernic), Hila\u0301rio Lole, told a press conference that the two men were also involved in the attempted kidnapping of a furniture shop manager, which took place on 16 January in the Mozambican capital.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is very strong information about their participation in these last two cases\u201d and they are \u201cindividuals who have been wanted, we had search warrants against them,\u201d said Lole.<\/p>\n

One of the detainees appears wielding a pistol in an image recorded by video surveillance cameras in the area where the businessman was kidnapped on the 20th, said the Sernic spokesman.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the images from the cameras are analysed in detail, one of them appears there wielding a pistol-type weapon,\u201d said Hila\u0301rio Lole.<\/p>\n

The two men are also accused of involvement in kidnappings that took place in 2021 and 2023, Lole added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey will be brought before the criminal investigating judge at the Maputo City Judicial Court, for the purpose of legalising their arrest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Sernic spokesman said that the victim of the kidnapping that took place on the 20th is still in captivity and work is continuing on his rescue.<\/p>\n

The police are also working to neutralise other members of the \u201cgang\u201d, said Hila\u0301rio Lole.<\/p>\n

Last week, Mozambique\u2019s Confederation of Economic Associations (CTA), the country\u2019s largest employers\u2019 organisation, said it intended to meet with the government before taking a position on the new kidnapping cases.<\/p>\n

For the second time in two days, the CTA postponed a press conference it had called to comment on the new wave of kidnappings that have recently hit Mozambican cities.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Lusa, a source from the organisation said that the postponement was due to the failure to hold a meeting with the government to discuss the impact of this type of crime on the business environment and the economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a routine meeting with the government, but in view of recent developments, the impact of kidnappings on the business climate and the economy was to be discussed,\u201d said the same source.<\/p>\n

The meeting with the executive is important for businesspeople to express their position, he continued.<\/p>\n

The businessman kidnapped on the 20th had already been kidnapped in 2011, making him the first known victim of this type of crime in Mozambique.<\/p>\n

On the 16th, a furniture shop manager was wounded in the abdomen during a kidnap attempt that was thwarted by people throwing stones at the perpetrators, Maputo police spokesman Leonel Muchina told Lusa at the time.<\/p>\n

In November, Mozambique\u2019s Central Office for Combating Organised and Transnational Crime (GCCOT) brought charges against three officials allegedly involved in the kidnapping and death of a 57-year-old man in December 2022.<\/p>\n

One of the defendants is a former member of the National Criminal Investigation Service (Sernic) and another is an official from a provincial directorate of justice, sentenced to 23 years in prison for involvement in other crimes, including kidnapping, but acquitted at second instance, the GCCOT said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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