Mozambican President Philip Nyusi is accused of taking a bribe from Privinvest Shipbuilding and its billionaire founder Iskander Safa.
According to Arabnet, court documents in London revealed that the shipbuilder and the French-Lebanese businessman paid sums to Nyusi and other senior officials after negotiating contracts for marine projects Government. They denied that the transfers were bribes or illegal, and said that it was understood that they were donations to a campaign or investments.
The allegations about the payments are contained in the London court files submitted by Previnvest, Describing, in response to a case filed by the Attorney General in Mozambique in 2019. The case concerns two billion dollars of Loans that Mozambique borrowed from banks including, Credit Suisse in 2013 and 2014 to pay for the coastal protection regime and the tuna fishing fleet. According to Bloomberg.
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a spokesperson for the Frelimo party, Kayvadin Mansi, said that Nyusi was not president at the time the payment was made, and under Mozambican law, he was allowed to receive political donations, in response On requests for comment on behalf of the party and News. Mozambican law prohibits public officials from receiving personal payments.
Mozambique revealed in 2016 that it had failed to publicly disclose the majority of the $ 2 billion in overseas loans it raised to finance offshore projects, in violation of the terms of the IMF agreement. This led the International Monetary Fund and a group of European donors to stop financing the government, and the following year the country defaulted on its debt.
The Mozambican government claimed that the offshore projects were fraudulent because Privinvest paid bribes to top officials including then-Finance Minister Manuel Zhang.
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Privinvest said that in addition to the $ 1 million it paid Neuse to Neuse in April 2014, it also paid for a Toyota Land Cruiser to be used during his campaign.
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In August 2014, Neusi asked PREFINFEST Sales Manager Jan Boustany for more contributions and campaign assistance from the company, that was after the company had already paid $ 10 million for Frelimo Party.
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