Jurist Jerónimo Mussuquisse says that there are sufficient elements to extradite Esmael Nangy to Mozambique, accused of kidnapping, taking into account the seriousness of the crime and the evidence in various reports of crimes of which he is indicted in the country. The South African Police communicated, on January 7th, the arrest, in the land of the rand, of a man wanted in Mozambique, suspected of committing the crime of kidnapping in the country. Pending a decision, the specialist in International Law, Jerónimo Massuquisse, said there are conditions for Nangy to answer for the crimes he is accused of. “The Public Ministry has more than enough elements that motivate this process, from several cases – he was identified as suspected of being involved in the practice of this legal type of crime, in addition to the reports, some of his colleagues who are in custody have already cited him at various times," he said. According to Jerónimo Massuquisse, if the court does not decide on his extradition within 20 days, the period of detention of the accused cannot exceed 80 days. “Within ten days, the Supreme Court of South Africa must issue a preliminary order that declares the extradition inadmissible or not, taking into account the grounds presented”, he advanced. For the jurist, taking into account the seriousness of the crimes he is accused of, there is every need to clarify the various cases of kidnapping that plague the country. The man wanted for leading a group that carried out kidnappings with ransom demands in Mozambique was arrested on the 7th of this month in a luxury condominium near Pretoria. “A multidisciplinary team led by members of the Trilateral Planning Cell (TPC) and the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) raided a luxury property in Centurion where they detained the alleged ringleader, wanted for kidnapping cases where ransom demands were made. in Mozambique”, said the national command of the South African Police (SAPS), in a statement. Centurion is a residential area with over 200,000 inhabitants located between Pretoria, the country's capital, and Midrand, in the South African province of Gauteng. The statement from the South African police, which the newspaper O País had access to, underlines that the South African security forces “acted based on an arrest warrant and an extradition request from the Government of Mozambique”. “On Saturday night, the team that also made up the Special ‘Task Force’ (STF), and the Criminal Intelligence and Organized Crime unit arrested Esmael Malude Ramos Nangy, 50, in a residence in Centurion”, he stressed. “The Police seized in his possession a licensed 9mm firearm, fourteen 9mm ammunition, five mobile phones, several bank cards from South African banks, as well as several Mozambican and South African SIM cards,” said the South African police note. Africa to which Lusa had access. After his arrest, the man appeared at the Randburg Magistrate's Court in Johannesburg, but his hearing was postponed. Contacted, the spokesperson for the national command of the Police of South Africa, Athlenda Mathe, explained that the arrest was carried out by a multisectoral team. According to the police spokesperson, the Mozambican authorities requested in July last year the arrest and extradition of the suspect to “go to trial for crimes of kidnapping and conspiracy committed in Mozambique”, adding that Maputo did not specify the alleged crimes of “conspiracy”. . “Of course, we are also going to investigate possible links between the suspect and the kidnappings that have been perpetrated in our country”, stressed Athlenda Mathe. The TPC is a policing structure that was created by the governments of South Africa, Mozambique and Tanzania to combat transnational organized crime in the region. The interior minister confirmed, days later, the arrest, in South Africa, of an alleged mastermind of the kidnappings in Mozambique. “Naturally, as the cases were not all clarified, an international arrest warrant was issued for one of those involved in these kidnapping cases, and the response is this that we have followed the arrest of this citizen in South Africa to be able to respond to what weighs on him ”, confirmed Arsénia Massingue, Minister of the Interior. Even after hearing the accused on January 8, the Minister of the Interior said that the Mozambican authorities had not yet been notified. “The steps to follow, as they should calculate, is that our institutions of the administration of justice are formally notified, because we all followed it through the press. There has not yet been a formal notification, and the next step will be that and then others will follow”, he said. Although the arrest was made by Interpol, in neighboring South Africa, the Public Prosecutor's Office clarified that the arrest of the alleged kidnapper involved the Mozambican Police, and, since then, démarches have been taking place with a view to the extradition of the accused to Mozambique. In 2022, 13 cases of kidnapping were registered across the country, ten of which have already been clarified, according to information provided by the Minister of the Interior. Arsénia Massingue also advances that there are 36 detainees in connection with the crime of kidnapping. Source: O Pais
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