{"id":6967,"date":"2021-10-07T17:04:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T17:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/?p=6967"},"modified":"2021-10-07T16:14:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T16:14:05","slug":"hidden-debts-judge-warns-former-secret-police-operative-aim-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/hidden-debts-judge-warns-former-secret-police-operative-aim-report","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Debts: Judge warns former secret police operative \u2013 AIM report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Mozambique<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Judge Efigenio Baptista, of the Maputo City Court, on Tuesday warned Antonio Carlos do Rosario, once the head of economic intelligence in the Mozambican security service (SISE), that he will order his arrest on charges of contempt, if he continues to show disrespect for the court.<\/p>\n

Rosario is the last of the 19 people accused of crimes related to Mozambique\u2019s \u201chidden debts\u201d to testify. He played a pivotal role in setting up the three fraudulent companies at the heart of the scandal \u2013 Proindicus, Ematum (Mozambique Tuna Company), and MAM (Mozambique Asset Management) \u2013 and became chairperson of the board of all three companies.<\/p>\n

Unlike the earlier defendants, Rosario entered the courtroom with a swagger, waving cheerily to the reporters, and even giving them a clenched fist salute. The only comparably arrogant behaviour by a suspect that AIM can recall was displayed by Anibal dos Santos Junior (\u201cAnibalzinho\u201d), the man who led the death squad that murdered Mozambique\u2019s foremost investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso in 2000.<\/p>\n

When he returned to Maputo in 2003 after his re-arrest in South Africa, following an escape from custody, Anibalzinho too waved to the press and public from the steps of the plane carrying him back, as if he were a returning champion.<\/p>\n

As he testified, it soon became clear that Rosario regarded himself as something of a hero who had been \u201cunjustly arrested\u201d. Like his former boss, Gregorio Leao, General Director of SISE under former President Armando Guebuza, there were many questions he did not wish to answer on grounds of \u201cnational security\u201d.<\/p>\n

Some of his claims were easily disproved. Thus he claimed that he had only met Teofilo Nhangumele, a key intermediary between Mozambican officials and the Abu Dhabi based company Privinvest, when both men were under arrest in 2019.<\/p>\n

But the prosecution has detailed accounts of meetings between Rosario and Nhangumele \u2013 notably a meeting in Maputo\u2019s Polana Hotel, at which Nhangumele was demanding that Proindicus pay him for work done, and Rosario refused.<\/p>\n

When prosecutor Sheila Marrengula confronted him with details of the meeting, Rosario first said \u201ca long time has passed\u201d, then \u201cI can\u2019t confirm if there was a meeting or not\u201d, and finally, \u201cthis information is not real\u201d.<\/p>\n

Tensions between Rosario and Marrengula rose when the prosecutor demanded information on the company Txopela Investments. Rosario admitted that he had set up this company, but then claimed \u201cit doesn\u2019t belong to SISE, it is used by SISE. It\u2019s a cover company\u201d.<\/p>\n

Last week Leao had said that Txopela was set up in the context of the coastal protection project that led to the creation of Proindicus. But now Rosario flatly denied that Txopela had anything to do with the project to defend Mozambique\u2019s Exclusive Economic Zone.<\/p>\n

He declined to explain what he meant by an \u201coperational company\u201d, and declared to Baptista \u201cI\u2019m not going to fall into your trap!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to discuss this (Txopela), I want to discuss the hidden debts\u201d, Rosario exclaimed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is all concerned with the hidden debts\u201d, retorted the judge. \u201cAnd it\u2019s not the accused who decide what questions are asked. Txopela is part of the debts\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo it\u2019s not, and never was!\u201d, shouted Rosario, interrupting Baptista.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t raise your voice\u201d, warned the judge. \u201cAre you threatening the court?\u201d<\/p>\n

A few minutes later Rosario accused Marrengula of \u201cplaying games\u201d. At this Baptista said \u201cyou\u2019ve gone past the limits\u201d. If he wanted to insult the Public Prosecutor, he would be charged with contempt of court, so that, regardless of the outcome of this trial, he would back on court facing new charges.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach incident of disrespect is a crime\u201d, said Baptista. Rosario said he didn\u2019t much care since \u201cI\u2019ve already been detained illegally for the last two and a half years\u201d.<\/p>\n

Eventually Baptista asked Rosario\u2019s lawyer, Alexandre Chivale, to persuade his client to change his attitude.<\/p>\n

After a five minute interval, Rosario seemed to have calmed down. But Chivale paid a price. For Chivale, in addition to his legal duties, is also an administrator of Txopela Investments, and so Marrengula asked what the connection was between Chivale and SISE.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlexandre Chivale is a collaborator of SISE\u201d, Rosario declared. Turning to his lawyer he said \u201cSorry I\u2019ve blown your cover\u201d.<\/p>\n

Rosario also claimed he was an expert in setting up companies. He said he could create four or five companies a day, and reckoned that in his SISE career he had set up over 1,000 companies. The claim is absurd, but it should alarm genuine business associations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. Judge Efigenio Baptista, of the Maputo City Court, on Tuesday warned Antonio Carlos do Rosario, once the head of economic intelligence in the Mozambican security service (SISE), that he will order his arrest on charges of contempt, if he continues to show disrespect for the court. 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