Luanda, ANGOLA, May 12 - Moneys acquired through embezzlement, now in the ambit of the Bill on Repatriation of Capital Domiciled Abroad, submitted to the Parliament by the Executive, will be returned to the coffers of the state.,

This was said last Friday in Luanda by Marcy Lopes, secretary of the President of the Republic for political, constitutional and parliamentary matters.

 

According to Marcy Lopes, the inclusion of the embezzlement crime in the bill proposed by the Executive is intended to guarantee that all persons that have swindled money from the state can be inquired, investigated and taken to court.  

 

Marcy Lopes was responding to questions from MPs, in the ambit of the approval, by the Parliament’s specialty commission, of the Opinion-Report on the Bill on Repatriation of Capital.

 

“What we did here was a series of interventions based on suppositions and presumptions, but, the truth is that until somebody is actually indicted for a criminal act, no-one should be called a thief or be subjected to other demeaning expressions”, he explained.  

 

He explained that the bill in question comprises several types of crimes which covered by different legal tools.

 

Meanwhile, the specialty commission also passed the Bill on the Extraordinary Regulation of Assets, submitted by UNITA (largest opposition party).

 

The two bills – which deal with Angolan moneys illegally sent and kept outside the country – will get the final on 17 May.

   

 

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