Upon yesterday’s release of a hard-hitting Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) report on a land swap deal involving the former Iec Long Firecracker Factory site in Taipa, the government said it had determined that the agreement is invalid and defective, adding that the anti-graft body would launch a criminal investigation into the case if any indication of corruption is found.
Almost one year after Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario passed the case to the graft buster last August, the commission has finally come to the conclusion that a letter of commitment on the deal, signed by the government and the Baía da Nossa Senhora da Esperança Development Company in 2001, is null and void.
Jaime Carion, the director of the Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT) at that time, signed the letter of commitment on behalf of the government.
A woman walks past the main entrance of the former Iec Long Firecracker Factory in Taipa yesterday. Photo: Davis Ip
This map contained in the hard-hitting report by the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) on the Iec Long Firecracker Factory land swap deal, released yesterday, shows the site’s various plots. Photo: Davis Ip
