Mozambican nationality is for sale. The scheme begins in the Central Registry Office, and flows into the office of the Minister of the Interior. Along this journey, institutions such as the State Intelligence and Security Service (SISE) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINEC) are involved and/or bypassed.
This text, which is the result of a journalistic investigation, shows how the scheme works, the amounts charged, and the entities and some of the people involved. 27 cases were analysed in which Mozambican nationality was granted, in the period from 2011 to 2022. Of these, in three cases, referring to the same number of citizens, Mozambican citizenship was granted without meeting the legal requirements. The three people concerned are businessmen who were originally of Turkish nationality.
