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Zim crisis sparks smuggling rise
20/06/2007 20:54 - (SA)
Maputo - The economic crisis in Zimbabwe has resulted in a rise in cases of smuggling of goods and materials into Mozambique, a weekly independent newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The weekly Magazine newspaper said in its June 20 edition that Mozambican customs officials recently confiscated 113 diamonds and $65 000 smuggled into the country from neighbouring Zimbabwe by two foreign nationals.
Paulino Azizi Dala, Manica province's head of customs, told the weekly that the diamonds and the cash were confiscated.
"The owners of the diamonds and the money failed to present any documentation to prove that they had legally imported the products into the country," he said.
Dala said Hassan Yahfoufi, a Belgian national and Wazneh Mohamad from Libya, were arrested in the Munene zone of Manica with the diamonds and the money which they were transporting in a Zimbabwean-registered bakkie.
- SAPA
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