A business group suspected of involvement in money laundering, and whose premises were recently searched on the order of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, has won millions of meticais in contracts to supply goods and services to public bodies in Tete province. In the last four years (2019-2023) the holding, the Zohra Group, SA, obtained more than 300 million meticais in awards from public bodies, in Tete province alone. Zuneid Esmael Amad Abdul Satar is the sole shareholder in the Zohra Group and Paulo Auade, the former provincial governor, is the administrator of the company. This text documents, with evidence, the business trajectory of the group, from its rise to its fall. It shows how the company won hundreds of millions of meticais from the State, presents the bodies with which the company did business, and their real beneficiaries.
