Portuguese businessman murdered in Ohangwena

THE Police in the Ohangwena Region are investigating a case of murder after the body of a Portuguese businessman was found in the veld near Ondobe village on Thursday afternoon.

According to Deputy Commissioner Abner Agas, the man has been identified as Dos Santos Alves Henriques Jorge Manuel (47) from Portugal, who was doing business in Angola and Namibia.Deputy Commissioner Agas said Manuel booked into the Palmeira Hotel at Oshikango last week Tuesday and was seen to have a lot of money with him.According to the Police, Manuel was abducted from the hotel on Thursday by three men in a dark brown Toyota Corolla with Angolan registration plates. Agas said cattle herders near Ondobe, 25 km from Oshikango, saw three men removing something large from their car, dumping it under a bush and driving back in the direction they had come from.The herdsman called the Ondobe Police, who found the body. He described the same car that the people at the hotel had.Deputy Commissioner Agas said the Namibian and Angolan police, in a joint operation, arrested two men at Santa Clara on the Angolan side of the border. The men allegedly confessed that they had killed Manuel with a 9mm pistol. According to Agas, one of the suspects is an Angolan policeman at the Santa Clara police station and the second is a former Angolan soldier. The two suspects told the Police that a third accomplice, an employee of Manuel, had run away with the money they had stolen from the victim.Agas said the Police confiscated a 9mm pistol and a 9mm Scorpion automatic rifle from the two men. He said the two police forces were jointly looking for the third suspect.

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