The contract for the Moamba
Major dam is illegal, according to the Administrative Tribunal (TA), says
@Verdade (19 Jan) The dam is now under construction and will provide more water
for Maputo and Matola. The total cost is $466 mn, of which $320 is a loan from
the Brazilian development bank (Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Economico do
Brasil, BNDES) - which also is tied to the dam being building by a Brazilian
company.
The TA says the contract was
given to Grupo Andrade Gutierrez without a tender process and without the
required review of the contract by the TA. A subcontractor of Gutierrez on the
dam is Infra Engineering Mozambique, owned by three senior Frelimo figures:
former tourism minister Fernando Sumbana Junior, former defence minister Tobias
Dai (brother-in-law of Armando Guebuza) and Raimundo Pachinuapa. @ Verdade
cites Brazilian federal police documents to say that a former Guiterrez
official in Mozambique told the police that the contract to Guiterrez was
conditional on using Infra as a subcontractor.
Andrade Gutierrez is one of
the companies involved in the Brazilian Lavo Jato ("car wash")
bribery scandal, but in November the Brazilian ambassador Rodrigo Soares
assured Mozambique that the Brazilian $320 mn would continue to be dispersed. (AIM 10 Nov 2016)
In MOZAMBIQUE 355 News reports & clippings, 22
January 2017
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