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Manuel Rabelais trial resumes this Friday with final allegations

The trial of the ex-minister and former director of the defunct Office for the Revitalization of Institutional Communication and Marketing of the Administration (GRECIMA), Manuel Rabelais, accused of embezzlement and money laundering, is resumed this Friday with the final allegations.

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The information was transmitted to Lusa by the trial's spokesman, Pedro Chilucuessue, stating that this is a stage in which the accuser, prosecutor, and the defense support their positions after the production of evidence at the previous hearings.

The trial of Manuel Rabelais, a former minister of Social Communication, whose co-defendant Hilário Gaspar Santos, his former administrative assistant at GRECIMA, started on December 9, 2020 in the criminal chamber of the Supreme Court (TS).

Manuel Rabelais is listed in the process as a former director of the extinct Office for the Revitalization of Institutional Communication and Management Marketing (GRECIMA), for acts practiced between 2016 and 2017.

The deputy of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), with a suspended mandate, is also accused of violating the rules of execution of the plan and budget and money laundering, punishable by a sentence greater than two years in prison.

The same crimes are attributed to Hilário Santos, former administrative technician of that body, created in May 2002, as an auxiliary organ of the former President, José Eduardo dos Santos, and extinguished, in 2017, by the current President, João Lourenço.

In reading the prosecution order of this trial, the MP reiterated that Manuel Rabelais, assisted by Hilário Santos, "transformed GRECIMA into an authentic exchange house, raising companies and individuals to deposit kwanzas in exchange for foreign currency, selling foreign exchange at a higher exchange rate. "than was practiced by the National Bank of Angola (BNA).

GRECIMA had accounts domiciled at Banco de Comércio Indústria (BCI) to which a large part of the currencies acquired at BNA were channeled, and at other commercial banks, namely BAI (Banco Angolano de Investimentos), BIC (Banco Internacional de Crédito), SOL and BPC (Savings and Credit Bank).

In all bank accounts at the institution, the prosecution says, Manuel Rabelais "demanded that he be the only subscriber".

According to the MP, in that period, Manuel Rabelais asked the BNA to acquire US $ 98 million and "for the operations," co-defendant Hilário Santos was accredited.

In this trial, chaired by Judge Daniel Modesto, more than ten deponents are listed, including the former BNA governor Valter Filipe and the former chairman of the BCI Board of Directors, Filomeno Alves de Ceita.

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