Cardoso’s murderers convicted in Mozambique

Date: 31 Jan 2003
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

Cardoso’s murderers convicted in Mozambique

Six men accused of killing Mozambican investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso, were convicted and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. One of the suspects, Anibal dos Santos Junior, popularly known as Anibalzinho, who escaped from pre-trial detention, was tracked down in South Africa and extradited to Mozambique. Anibalzinho, who led the death squad, was tried in absentia while he was still on the run and received a twenty-eight years prison sentence. His co-accused were each sentenced to at least twenty-three years in jail. Cardoso was gunned down in a Maputo suburb while probing the disappearance of US$14 million in privatisation funds from the Commercial Bank of Mozambique.

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01CPJ, the case of Carlos Cardoso from Commitee to Protect Journalist, [online], Available at www.cpj.org [Accessed: 20 December 2013>]

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Cardoso’s murderers convicted in Mozambique. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013536

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South African History Online. "Cardoso’s murderers convicted in Mozambique." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013536.