/ 19 March 2001

THREE ARRESTED FOR CARDOSO MURDER

MOZAMBICAN police have arrested three prominent businessmen in connection with late last year’s murder of journalist Carlos Cardoso. Mamade Abdul Satar, Ayob Abdul Satar and Vicent Ramaya have also allegedly been linked to the 1999 attempted murder of a bank lawyer, Albano Silva, as he pursued the largest bank fraud in Mozambique’s history, involving about $14m. Cardoso had been investigating the case. – AFP