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MOZAMBIQUE - THE SPIES WHO BORROWED TWO BILLION

By Celina Sitoe · 4 parts · 12 h 23 min · English

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In 2013 and 2014 three companies run by Mozambique's intelligence service borrowed about two billion dollars in secret, for coastal surveillance, a tuna fleet and shipyards, under guarantees the finance minister signed without telling parliament. The fishing boats were invoiced at about ten times their worth; the bribes, prosecutors said, came to some two hundred million dollars; when the loans surfaced in 2016 the economy broke. Around it lies an older story the world never heard: a banker killed after publishing a list of debtors, an editor murdered over a bank fraud, a heroin coast, a kidnapping trade, horns vanishing from a police strong-room. Covers Manuel Chang and the hidden debts, Privinvest and Credit Suisse, Ndambi Guebuza and Gregório Leão, and Mohamed Bachir Suleman and the Maputo Shopping Centre.

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  1. Part 01

    2:50:08

  2. Part 02

    3:04:48

  3. Part 03

    2:51:49

  4. Part 04

    3:36:01

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