President appoints new Financial Intelligence chief

Luanda – The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, on Friday appointed Gilberto Moisés Moma Capeça, to the position of Director General of the Financial Information Unit.

According to a note issued by the President’s Civil House, to which ANGOP had access, in another decree, the Head of State dismissed Francisca Salomé Massango de Brito from the same position.

The Financial Intelligence Unit is responsible for collecting, centralising, treating and disseminating, at national level, information regarding the prevention and repression of crimes of money laundering, financing terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, as well as the advantages of any offence underlying the crime of money laundering.

Source: Angola Press News Agency