Mozambique court hands out verdicts in $2bn corruption case

A court in Mozambique has begun handing down verdicts in the country's biggest corruption scandal, in which the government unleashed a financial earthquake by trying to conceal huge debts. The 19 high-profile defendants, who include former state security officials and the son of an ex-president, faced charges ranging from money laundering to bribery and blackmail related to a $2bn “hidden debt” scandal that crashed the nation's economy. Judge Efigenio Baptista of the Maputo City Court said on Wednesday that reading the 1,388 page judgement was likely to take five days. The trial, which started in August last year, ran until March.

Al Jazeera Haru Mutasa reports.

Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/

#Mozambique #Corruption #MozambiqueCorruption #HiddenDebtScandal