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Former Mozambique president's son jailed over 'hidden debt'

Ndambi Guebuza (in orange trousers), the son of Mozambique's former president Armando Guebuza, listens as he is found guilty of corruption on 7 December 2022. © Grant Lee Neuenburg/Reuters

The son of a former president of Mozambique has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after being found guilty, along with 10 other people, on charges related to a corruption scandal in which the government concealed large debts, crashing the country's economy.

Ndambi Guebuza, the son of former president Armando Guebuza, was one of 19 defendants, including two to intelligence service officials - Gregorio Leao, the former head of the economic unit and Antonio do Rosario, who headed three state-owned firms that illicitly borrowed billions.

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