#NEWS>>Mozambique seizes Tanzania-bound truck load of precious stones.

The Mozambican police in the northern province of Cabo Delgado have seized a truck carrying a container filled with 15 semi-precious stones that were being smuggled to Tanzania, the local media reported on Wednesday.

A report in the Maputo independent daily quotes the Mozambican police as saying that the same truck had been spotted on several previous occasions leaving the mining area in Ancuabe district, which aroused suspicions.

This time, the truck was stopped at a checkpoint, and the police insisted on opening the container.

When the stones, mostly garnets, were found, the police arrested the driver, who is a Tanzanian citizen.

A multi-sector team, including officials from the customs service and from the Provincial Directorate of Mineral Resources and Energy is investigating the case.

A police spokesperson told reporters that, two days after the seizure, a document was presented apparently giving the owner of the stones, another Tanzanian citizen, and the right to transport the stones to Tanzania by sea.

But the stones were not on board any boat, and the police suspect that the export licence was illegally passed on to a different person
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