Africa Business Radio

Mozambique government says more than 14 tonnes of precious minerals have been smuggled out of Mozambique in the last 10 months alone. Gold, rubies, tantalite and garnet were smuggled from places where they're most abundant - in the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Zambézia and Manica. Judge Counselor of the Supreme Court Rafael Sebastião told fellow attendees discussed at the meeting between the government, the judiciary that legal processes are being fine-tuned to stop criminal exploitation and smuggling.