Mbanza Kongo – The General Inspectorate of State Administration (IGAE) last week recovered four state owned vehicles, allegedly diverted and sold to third parties in Zaire province.
Among the vehicles are three Toyota Land Cruiser vehicles and a MAN tanker truck, seized following an inspection carried out by the IGAE, in partnership with the personnel of the Department of Investigation of Criminal Offenses (DIIP) of the Zaire Provincial Command of the National Police.
Speaking to the press on Monday, the spokesman for the Zaire Provincial Command of the National Police, Intendant Luís Bernardo, said that the seized vehicles belonged to the National Demining Institute (INAD) in the region.
According to the spokesman, of the four vehicles diverted from the Local State Administration, two were sold in the municipality of Tomboco, one in Mbanza Kongo and the other in the Mabor neighborhood, in Luanda.
Luís Bernardo said that the presumed perpetrators of this action have already been identified, and the General Inspectorate of State Administration is preparing a report that will be sent to the Public Prosecutor's Office in the region, for the issuance of arrest warrants for the perpetrators.
'The fact that they were not caught, the IGAE chose to prepare a report to be sent to the deputy prosecutor in Zaire province, who, in turn, will issue a warrant for the arrest of the alleged perpetrators,' he explained.
This is the first action to recover state assets that IGAE has carried out in the province of Zaire since the beginning of this year. JL/DOJ
