Mozambique: Cardoso Murder: Accused Still Have Mobile Phones

Maputo — Although prisoners are banned from using mobile phones, those accused of murdering Mozambican journalists Carlos Cardoso still have no difficulty in acquiring phones and ringing up whoever they like.

Antonio Frangoulis, former head of the Maputo branch of the Criminal Investigation Police (PIC), on Thursday told the Maputo City Court that he had received two phone calls on 19 November, the day after the trial started, from one of the accused, Maputo money-lender Momade Assife Abdul Satar ("Nini").

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