{"id":2413,"date":"2020-07-20T08:30:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T06:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org\/news\/?p=2413"},"modified":"2020-08-30T12:03:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T10:03:57","slug":"war-business-in-cabo-delgado-the-ministry-of-defence-removes-atanasio-mtumuke-as-subscriber-on-the-state-secrets-bci-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/war-business-in-cabo-delgado-the-ministry-of-defence-removes-atanasio-mtumuke-as-subscriber-on-the-state-secrets-bci-account\/","title":{"rendered":"War business in Cabo Delgado: The Ministry of Defence removes Atan\u00e1sio M\u2019tumuke as subscriber on the \u2018State Secret\u2019s\u2019 BCI account\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The bank account number 1041857710001, made public by the weekly Canal de Mo\u00e7ambique<\/em> as the account where is deposited all the money destined for military and police forces rendering security services for the multinational companies Total and Mozambican Rovuma Venture in Cabo Delgado, displayed the name of the former Minister of National Defence, Atan\u00e1sio Salvador M\u2019tumuke. But not anymore. The name is gone, according to the outcomes of an investigation conducted by the Centre of Investigative Journalism (CJI). The former minister\u2019s name, as can be seen in the irrefutable proof, disappeared this past Monday.<\/p>\n

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Of the Boomerang Effect<\/strong><\/p>\n

The journalist and activist Armando Nenane, executive director of the Mozambican Association of Judiciary Journalism (AMJJ), made a deposit of 50 Meticais in the mentioned account last Wednesday the 1st<\/sup>, in order to, as a good citizen, contribute to the army\u2019s fight against the terrorism that has been devastating the national sovereignty. The respective deposit slip displayed the name of the former Minister of Defence Atan\u00e1sio Salvador M\u2019tumuke. However, other deposits by CJI served to confirm the disappearance of the past official.<\/p>\n

A transfer of 20 Meticais done last Saturday by another citizen through internet banking does not show the ex-minister\u2019s name anymore, showing that the account\u2019s titular is supposedly the National Direction of Logistics and Finances of the Ministry of National Defence. This shows the efficacy of the deposit method in any BCI agency, prompted by the human rights and citizenship journalist and activist Armando Nenane in his search for the truth.<\/p>\n

Of the accusation by Canal de Mo\u00e7ambique<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As we write, the journalists Fernando Veloso and Matias Guente, Director and Executive Editor of Canal de Mo\u00e7ambique, respectively, were constituted defendant by the Public Ministry in a court case where they are accused of violating the Secret of State, allegedly for making public a supposed classified as confidential contract between the multinational companies and the Ministries of Defence and Interior, with the object of providing security services for the former in exchange for compensations for the military od the Armed Defence Forces (FADM) of Mozambique and police of the Rapid Intervention Unit (UIR).<\/p>\n

It is questionable, if not even controversial, the fact that the bank account at BCI (Commercial and Investment Bank) where the referred compensations are allegedly deposited still display the name Atan\u00e1sio Salvador M\u2019tumuke. How can a former government official still control the bank account of a national directorate belonging to a ministry? Some believe that this fact only demonstrates that the current Ministry of National Defence, Jaime Neto, is just a puppet or object being put in place simply for cosmetic effects. Because the fact is that the one that knows what is happening in Cabo Delgado and is subsisting on it is the former National Defence Minister, M\u2019tumuke.<\/p>\n

These new developments intensify even more suspicions according to which fraud is perpetrated by high government officials might be well hidden and protected by the Secret of State\u2019s veil. In fact, Canal de Mo\u00e7ambique<\/em> revealed that the money that should be given in the hands of the military in Cabo Delgado is in fact being \u2018eaten\u2019 by the \u2018chiefs\u2019.<\/p>\n

Some days ago, this bizarre accusation was made against Canal<\/em>, at a time when the war against the terrorists acting in Cabo Delgado since October of 2017 has resulted in more than 1,000 deaths, about 211,000 refugees and the destruction of several infrastructures.<\/p>\n

CJI understands the gravity of the pronouncements made by Canal de Mo\u00e7ambique<\/em>, which state that the money that should be destined to the military and police providing security services to the multinationals in Cabo Delgado is being \u2018eaten\u2019 by the \u2018chiefs\u2019, which would have created a BCI bank account for the effect. This accusation deserves a profound investigation by the General Public Prosecutor (Procuradoria Geral da Rep\u00fablica<\/em>). According to the conditions of the confidential contract between those companies and the Ministries of Defence and Interior, made Public by Canal de Mo\u00e7ambique<\/em>, the referred money should be distributed amongst the military of the FADM and police of the UIR in specific remuneration criteria:<\/p>\n