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Maleiane promised to honour all ‘hidden debts’ if court would rule them legal — report

Mozambique would have converted the $535 million MAM loan into sovereign debt if any Mozambican court had deemed the government guarantee for the MAM loan legal, finance minister Adriano Maleiane told the Russian lender, VTB, in a meeting in early 2018, according [...]

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Mozambique close to MAM restructure deal, but will let ProIndicus go bankrupt

The Mozambique government intends to disregard the sovereign guarantee it signed on the $622 million loan for offshore security company ProIndicus, and let it go bankrupt - but has reached an agreement in principle to restructure a similar loan made to ProIndicus’ sister company MAM, the [...]

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Chang indictment will affect creditor negotiations, says Mozambique PM

A criminal indictment in the US over Mozambique’s $2.2 billion hidden debt scandal will affect negotiations between the Mozambican government and the holders of the loans that financed the deals, Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosário said yesterday. The [...]

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Government turned to central bank to fund 2016 ‘hidden debt’ repayments

The government borrowed nearly $200 million from the Bank of Mozambique in three separate loans in 2016 to cover repayments on the EMATUM bonds and ProIndicus syndicated loan, according to a recently released audit of the government’s accounts from that [...]

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Aid for debt; oil, money, and global security: An interview with Russia’s Ambassador to Mozambique

In November 2017 Russia donated $40 million to a school feeding programme in Mozambique via an innovative debt swap structure. Under the agreement, the debt repayments that Mozambique owes to Russia will go to a World Food Programme (WFP) project that aims [...]

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US investigators have ‘great leverage’ over banks suspected of Mozambique corruption

An investigation by the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) into the ProIndicus, EMATUM and MAM deals could have major repercussions for the three banks involved - but is unlikely to have direct implications [...]

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Mozambique lenders kept interest rates low through hefty ‘contractor fees’

The Mozambique maritime companies that took out $2 billion in ‘hidden loans’ in 2013 and 2014 paid more than $140 million to lenders to make their loans look cheap enough to win government guarantees, the

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Mozambique currency strengthens as ‘hidden debts’ go unpaid

Mozambique has slipped further into arrears on its $2 billion in ‘hidden’ debt  after missing the second payment on a government-guaranteed $535 million loan taken out by Mozambique Asset Management (MAM) today. However, the de facto policy of non-payment [...]

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