Friday, February 10, 2012

13 kidnappings in 6 months

The commander of the PRM, Jorge Khálau, said last week, in remarks to the weekly Mozambique Channel, which some of the kidnappings whose victims do not participate to the police, can not be true, and that some entrepreneurs may be allegedly kidnapped using this loophole to smuggle currency values ​​out of Mozambique.
The kidnapping saga continues! Another person was of Asian origin, this Wednesday, has been abducted. According to the statement of the General Command of the PRM, the kidnapping happened around 20:45 on Avenida Mao Tse Tung, on the corner of Avenue Amilcar Cabral, when a concerned citizen in a car traveling in the company of her husband. According to the description of the police, the kidnappers, who were in another car, a simulated accident, crashing into the back of the car he was traveling the couple.   In the process of approach by the driver of the car suffered a collision, will be out four individuals, who forced landing of his wife to the kidnappers' car, then putting himself on the run.    When that "Country" found, it is the mother of a prominent businessman of Asian origin, owner of the group Africom.
Since the abductions began in the city of Maputo, there are roughly five months, the modus operandi of the hijackers is almost the same: kidnappings of businessmen of Asian origin with outward signs of prosperity or their immediate families. Then call hours later the family demanding the ransom. The values ​​are around between 500 002 million. In all cases, the kidnappers warn the victims' families not to come into contact with the police, on pain of the victims will never return to family life. In all cases of kidnapping so far made public, our newspaper knows that for the release of the victims, there was a ransom. Even if the two entrepreneurs from the same family who were released last Wednesday, that is, after the transfer of Nini Satar and Vicente Ramaya-taken as the main ringleaders of the kidnapping - the BO command to the cells of the PRM in the city, was no payment of ransom.  In what was his public stance on the subject, the commander of the PRM, Jorge Khálau, said last week, in remarks to the weekly Mozambique Channel, which some of the kidnappings whose victims do not participate to the police, can not be true, and that some of the businessmen allegedly abducted may be using this loophole to smuggle currency values ​​out of Mozambique.  Jorge Khálau wonders of the reasons why entrepreneurs to keep in their homes, large sums of money, instead of using banking institutions for the purpose.  The statements of the Mozambican community Khálau indignation of Asian origin, who later wrote a letter, sent to the media, where, in addition to the repudiation of the statements Khálau, suspected police involvement with the kidnappers.   The letter said, in one of his passages, "the Asian community has, in recent times, suffering kidnappings by gangs allegedly organized and somewhat protected, where one can suspect the police protection of high-level and powerful people because they do not realize the huge silence around these events. "    More: at a press conference, the spokesman for the general command of the PRM, Pedro Cossa, dismissed alleged settling of accounts favored by Mozambican traders of Asian origin. He said, Khálau that this type of crime (kidnapping) was not typical of Mozambicans, but to foreigners.
Despite the police chiefs are to unfold in public statements to convey an image to be monitoring the situation of abductions, the fact is that nothing concrete has been presented. Incidentally, yesterday during the evening news of Stv, former Director of Criminal Investigation Police (PIC), Antonio Frangoulis, said police supervisors should focus more on research and not on rhetoric, and said that is visible the inability of the police to deal with this new criminal phenomenon."I do not mean that the police are not prepared, but is not 100%. This phenomenon began last year but not acted, or became deaf ears. See that is not constituted a brigade or people prepared to deal with these situations. The truth is that the police has not taken the job, "said Frangoulis.  The purpose of the inability of the Criminal Investigation Police in dealing with this type of crime, even the attorney general's office, Augusto Paulino, had acknowledged in its latest report, the PIC was morribunda. "Without a PIC competent, effective and scientifically prepared, it is worth noting that the momentum is achieved in all areas of administration of justice," he said Paulino.  In fact, several sectors of opinion have been advocating the urgent transformation of the judicial police in subordinate PIC to prosecutors. Unfortunately, the strong lobbying of the generals of police has hindered these advances.

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