The Municipal Command of the National Police in Lubango arrested, in the early hours of this Sunday, a citizen, who worked as a cashier at the Instituto Superior Politécnico Independente, accused of having fraudulently stolen more than 85 million Kwanzas.
Doroteia do Rosário Alves de Sá was arrested in the early hours of yesterday during an operation launched by members of the Municipal Command of the National Police in Lubango, which aimed to monitor drivers traveling in the capital of Huila. According to the second Commander of the Municipal Command of the National Police in Lubango, Chief Inspector Lucas Jacinto, the citizen was initially detained for having tested positive in the alcohol test during the breathalyzer operation.
The Police realized that they were in the presence of a citizen who had been on the run from justice for almost 10 months, following collecting Doroteia’s identifying data. “She was questioned as part of criminal and road prevention patrolling, on Avenida Paiva Domingos da Silva, specifically in the vicinity of Ango-Himu. She tested positive for alcohol, which led to her arrest.
Posts on the picket line, it was discovered that the Public Ministry had issued an arrest warrant for his involvement in a financial crime”, he explained. According to the arrest warrant issued by the Attorney General’s Office and signed by the Attorney General of the Criminal Investigation Service (SIC) in the province of Huíla, Cândida Ester Mangundo Amaro, the crimes of abuse of qualified trust, infidelity and Criminal Association.
Doroteia do Rosário Alves de Sá was wanted by the justice bodies for committing the crimes in question since May 30, 2023, the date on which the warrant was issued and executed only yesterday, three months before the embezzlement in the institution was discovered. . The facts The Instituto Superior Politécnico Independente became aware of the embezzlement of which she was a victim in February of last year, when the detainee, Doroteia do Rosário de Sá, was an employee of that educational institution, occupying the category of cashier.
Sources close to the process at the aforementioned institution say that it used the institute’s tuition payment system whose bank accounts were opened in its name. To commit the crimes of which she is accused, according to our source, Doroteia do Rosário de Sá had the participation of two of her colleagues, who are on the run, once morest whom arrest warrants were also issued, namely Maura da Conceição Gomes Italiano, Márcio Amândio Lisboa and Manuel Morais dos Santos Garcia.
The source added that, with this action, the Instituto Superior Politécnico Independente was harmed in the order of 85,000,000.00 (eighty-five million Kwanzas), a value that might increase, following the conclusion of the entire investigative process of this case, which remote to 2020. Meanwhile, OPAIS contacted, via telephone, Doroteia do Rosário de Sá’s defense lawyer, Carina Nunes, who did not want to provide any information regarding the detention of her constituent, having promised to do so in the near future.
BY: João Katombela, in Huíla
