4/28/11 11:36 AM

http://www.portalangop.co.ao/motix/en_us/noticias/politica/2011/3/17/Attorney-General-Office-implements-actions-combat-money-laundering,8e3bc3fc-785e-43e8-99e3-25339b955f46.html

Lubango – The actions implemented by the Attorney General Office (PGR) to combat money laundering enabled the detention of hundreds of suspects.

This was said to Angop on by the Angolan Attorney General, João Maria de Sousa, during a ceremony of the main event aimed at celebrating the 32nd anniversary of his institution, marked on Wednesday 27 April.

According to João Maria de Sousa, the fact was firstly recorded in 2009, when the prosecuting counsel in the country was summoned to assume in name and representation of the State, the real guidance of investigation and instruction of a determined number of criminal processes.

The Attorney General said that the law 08/06 of September 2009 entitled the PGR to instruct criminal processes.