Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Prosecutors in Mozambique to investigate timber smuggling


The Attorney-General’s Office is investigating the smuggling of timber from Mozambique to China, and the possible involvement of senior figures in the government and the ruling Frelimo Party in this illicit trade, according to a newspaper in the country. The smuggling was denounced by a British-based NGO, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), which looked at the figures from both the Mozambican and Chinese ends of the trade and spotted “enormous discrepancies”. The imports of Mozambican timber declared in China massively exceed the exports declared in Mozambique.

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