The Mozambique Attorney General’s Office (PGR) has announced the expulsion of a magistrate for receiving money to facilitate the release of a defendant in Sofala, in the center of the country.
“The Superior Council of the Magistracy of the Public Ministry (…) resolved to apply the sanction of expulsion to a magistrate of the Public Ministry, with the category of Prosecutor 3°,” said the PGR, in a note sent today to the media.
According to the document, the magistrate “used his functions” to “request and receive amounts of money to facilitate the release of a detained defendant, accused of committing the crime of involuntary manslaughter.” The magistrate was attached to the Sofala Provincial Prosecutor’s Office and, according to the authorities, the sanction results from “violation of professional duties and principles.”
Source: Observadora
