Beatriz da Consolação Mateus Buchili is a Mozambican lawyer. She is the first woman to be Attorney General of Mozambique.

Life

Beatriz Buchili has a master’s degree in law from the

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. She joined the Public Prosecutor’s Office in 1994 as a district attorney, and rose to become a deputy to the Attorney General, Augusto Paulino. President

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appointed Buchili to succeed Paulino as Attorney General on 21 July 2014. She has presided over several high-profile corruption cases. One case involves twenty indicted defendants, including Gregorio Leão, former director general of the secret services ( SISE); SISE director of economic intelligence António do Rosário; Inês Moiane, private secretary to the former president

; and the former president's son Armando Ndambi Guebuza. Two other corruption cases are the Embraer case, related to the purchase of aircraft for the

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, and the Odebrecht case, relating to the construction of Nacala International Airport and the coal terminal at the

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. In August 2019 President

Filipe Nyusi Filipe Jacinto Nyusi (; born 9 February 1959) is a Mozambican politician who was the fourth president of Mozambique from 2015 to 2025. He has also served as the Chairman of the Southern African Development Community from 2020 to 2022. During his ...

swore Buchili in for a second five-year term as Attorney General.

References

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