A drug production plant run by foreign nationals has been discovered in the Moamba district of Maputo province in southern Mozambique, the Central Directorate for Combating Organized and Transnational Crime (GCCCOT) said on Friday.
“A drug manufacturing factory run by foreign nationals of Mexican and Nigerian nationality was discovered in the town of Vundisa, Moamba district, Maputo province,” said a statement from GCCCOT, a unit of Mozambique’s public ministry.
According to the report, the foreign nationals who ran the plant are at large and their entry into the country was facilitated by a Mozambican citizen who was detained on May 2.
The body indicates that the detained woman is part of a network that facilitates the entry of foreigners into Mozambique, consisting of tourism and border visa officials and Nigerian citizens.
The statement added that people associated with the aforementioned drug factory also had a field to grow vegetables “to conceal the illicit origin of the funds they moved.”
As part of the investigation, five real estate properties, two warehouses, two heavy-duty vehicles, and various agricultural machinery were seized.
The department said in a statement that one of the Nigerian nationals charged in the drug factory case was expelled from Brazil in 2012 for participating in drug trafficking and committing ideological lies in public documents, a crime under Brazilian law.
“Because there is strong evidence that a crime involving human trafficking or other illegal activities, including money laundering, has been committed, and in order to collect additional evidence, GCCCOT has taken steps through legal and judicial cooperation,” it said.
In this regard, letters of request have been sent to a number of countries, including Brazil, South Africa and Nigeria, he said.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal

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