Helder Pitta Gróz was speaking in Luanda on the sidelines of the swearing-in ceremony for 30 new sub-attorneys of the Republic, but said it was not possible, for now, to specify how many people will benefit from the amnesty law, as it has not yet been approved by the Assembly. National.
The proposal was approved on Tuesday by the Council of Ministers, to give amnesty to all common crimes punishable by imprisonment for up to 10 years, committed by national or foreign citizens, in the period between 12 November 2015 and 11 November 2022, with some exceptions in crime typologies.
“More than 20 thousand people are imprisoned in the country and we were thinking at least 2000 could leave”, estimated the attorney general.
The PGR added that the amnesty law is not limited to cases of pretrial detention or those serving a sentence.
“We have to see the cases that are under investigation because there are many crimes that do not provide for preventive detention and that are covered by the amnesty and whose cases will be shelved. We are seeing all this and the universe of cases that could be filed to relieve as much or as much as the SIC [Criminal Investigation Service] or the DIIP [Directorate for Investigation of Criminal Illicits]”, said Pitta Gróz.
The proposed amnesty law does not cover intentional crimes committed with violence or threats to persons, which resulted in death or when there was use of a firearm, violent crimes, high-level drug trafficking, trafficking in persons or sex trafficking in persons, trafficking in weapons and war munitions, penetrative sex crimes, sexual crimes against minors or those committed through sexual aggression and crimes to promote and aid illegal immigration.
Crimes of embezzlement, money laundering, environmental crimes, those resulting from vandalization, destruction or deprivation of public goods, against the security of the State, which do not admit parole under the law, those of incitement to public disorder, to insurrection and coups d'état and crimes that are imprescriptible under the terms of the Constitution and the law are also not amnestied.
Likewise, property crimes, whose damages have not been repaired and assets that have been seized in criminal proceedings, which are now amnestied, are declared forfeited in favor of the State, are not covered or covered by this proposed amnesty law. .
"The exception is that, if these assets are titled or owned by a third party, these assets are not lost in favor of the State and must be returned to their normal and common owner", said the Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Marcy Lopes. .
