The Deputy Attorney General of Angola (PGR), Mota Liz, said Tuesday that the allegations of alleged embezzlement of public funds by the president of the Angolan Court of Accounts “are a specific matter of the PGR” and did not go into details.
“This is a specific issue for the PGR and I’m not talking about that,” Mota Liz replied to Lusa, without going into details, when they asked the president of the Court of Accounts, Exalgina Gamboa, about an investigation.
The expenses of the president of the Court of Accounts of Angola, Exalgina Gamboa, who will have spent four million dollars on furniture at the expense of the Angolan Stateremain unexplained by the institution or the PGR.
The case was denounced by the Angolan journalist and activist Rafael Marques e Morais, on the Maka Angola portal, under the title “Tribunal de Contas is the piggy bank of Exalgina Gamboa” and accounts for the expenses of the judge, at the expense of the public treasury and amounting to several million dollars.
It reveals that the Government acquired, in 2020, a house worth 3.5 million dollars (3.3 million euros) for Exalgina Gamboa in a luxury condominium, while the judge later spent half a million dollars (472 thousand euros) in its rehabilitation.
The Private Vault of the Court of Accounts later paid around US$4 million (3.7 million euros) for equipping the residence, with furniture purchased from two companies.
Mota Liz, who spoke this Tuesday on the sidelines of the opening of the National Conference on the Reform of Justice, the Penitentiary System and Human Rights, defended the actions of the PGR in the process of combating corruption, considering that this It is a challenge for the whole society. .
“As an institution, The PGR seeks to do its job, combating corruption is not the job of a single institutionit is a challenge for all of society, including the media, how to defend that we should not focus solely on the repressive dimension,” he said.
For the magistrate, the country needs to “structure the preventive and pedagogical dimension, which begins with the educational system, with the adoption of transparency mechanisms in the management of public affairs, in civic moral education for the honesty of citizens and for prevent crime”. to happen to happen”.
In Angola, corruption “has become a kind of cultural issue, a practice commonly accepted as if it were a value, as long as we are aware of that, there are no chains that can be resolved,” stressed the PGR deputy.
“You have to instill in people’s minds that corruption is rottenness, it is a sin, if we want to use religious language, and society has to change it, at the same time you have a fine-tuned judicial machine to hold accountable those who still embark on corruption ..”, he pointed out.
But, he observed, “a machine that has to have strong, effective values, with specialists capable of resisting the temptation to become corrupted and I believe that in this dimension the PGR has been doing its job,” he fired.
The National Conference on the Reform of Justice, the Penitentiary System and Rights, in which Mota Liz participates, is promoted by the Center for Human Rights and Citizenship of the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Angola, which takes place in Luanda.
Source: Observadora
