Journalist contributed to questions asked in high-profile parliamentary inquiry
In 2013, Mozambique borrowed $850 million ostensibly to fund the purchase of a tuna fishing fleet, through a publicly-privately owned special purpose company called Ematum. It soon emerged that much of the money was used to purchase military hardware – but it remains unclear how much. There are strong suspicions that some of the missing money might have been used to arm the military for a land offensive against opposition forces, which led to human rights abuses against the civilian population, and which appears to be being covered up.
- The article published (in Portuguese) on 9 March 2016 in Mozambican newspaper Foreign Policy, were widely read and quoted by Mozambican news media, as well as cited in numerous blogs and shared on social media.
- Tom Bowker, one of the journalists who worked on the story, contributed to questions which were asked in a high-profile parliamentary inquiry into the deals.
- The reporting on Andrew Pearse (Ex-Credit Suisse Banker) will certainly have informed the Jubilee Debt campaign on Mozambique's debt.
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