Two former intelligence chiefs in Mozambique were sentenced on Wednesday December 7 to twelve years in prison in the gigantic corruption scandal known as the
"hidden debt"
.
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Former intelligence and state security chief Gregorio Leao and ex-economic intelligence boss Antonio do Rosario were sentenced by a special court in the capital Maputo.
The affair, which concerns secret loans of two billion dollars granted by foreign banks to Mozambican public companies, had plunged the country into a serious financial crisis.
