Sergio Namburete confirmed he kept €127,500 of a total €877,500 sent by Privinvest to Inês Moiane, personal secretary of Mozambique's then-president Armando Guebuza

Mocambique will summon Jean Boustani, an executive at shipbuilding firm Privinvest, to testify in the…...

Defendants and their lawyers in the ‘hidden debts’ trial are angling for President Filipe Nyusi to be called to testify

The 'fixer' who helped Privinvest do business in Mozambique claimed a $50m payment was to set up a ship repair company, ultimately superseded by the $535m MAM

Two men involved in conceiving Mozambique's offshore security project have denied involvement in Ematum and MAM

A former secret service agent told a court in Maputo yesterday that the then defence minister, Filipe Nyusi, led the group that set up Proindicus

The court also ordered Ndambi Guebuza’s lawyer to leave his house, which is owned by a company linked to Privinvest and the ‘hidden debt’ deals

The trial in Mozambique of 19 people accused of illegalities around the scandal of the ‘hidden debts’ will start on 23 August, with the son of former president Armando Guebuza among the first to testify, according to a schedule of the hearings seen by Zitamar News

President Filipe Nyusi was the “prime mover” in the contracts between the Mozambican state and shipbuilder Privinvest that led to the so-called “hidden debts” scandal, a court in London heard on Monday

It is unclear why Nyusi would want a personal campaign contribution paid via a scrap metal merchant — or why Privinvest was happy to make political donations via a UAE-registered company instead of directly to Frelimo’s bank account