Personnel from the National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) have seized 400 kg of methamphetamine at a residence in the Fomento neighbourhood, Matola municipality, in Maputo province. The drug was buried in the yard of a house rented by Congolese citizens.
Elino Panguana, SERNIC spokesman for Maputo province, said that the operation resulted from a tipoff by members of the public, who observed a number of strange containers being buried in the yard. A Congolese citizen, who was in the house at the time of the raid, was detained, but denied any knowledge of the origin of the drug, instead accusing an alleged employer currently in South Africa. SERNIC however claims that the accused, together with his alleged accomplice, rented the residence in order to hide the drug there, rather than to reside in it. Recurring international reports point to Mozambique as the corridor for drug trafficking, with Cabo Delgado, Nampula and Maputo (including the country’s capital) leading the statistics.
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