Individual Corruption

According to Global Integrity 2007, petty corruption in the form of bribes and kickbacks is common in the education, health, water and electricity sectors. However, on the contrary, a large percentage of household respondents surveyed by Afrobaromter 2008 reported that they have never paid a bribe, given a gift, or done a favour to government officials in order to get water or sanitation services, or to get a document or a permit in 2007.

Business Corruption

According to the World Bank & IFC Enterprise Surveys 2007, some of the companies surveyed report that obtaining utility services such as telephone, electrical and water connections, or obtaining licences or permits may sometimes be followed by demands for bribes, such as gifts.

Another site for corrupt practices is the business inspections conducted by government officials. Thus, Global Integrity 2007 reports that, in practice, business inspections by government officials to ensure public health and safety standards are sometimes carried out in an arbitrary and ad-hoc manner, and bribes are paid by companies in return for favourable treatment or expedited processing.

Political Corruption

According to a 2010 news article by AFP, in February 2010, the trials against former Transport Minister Antonio Munguambe and four former officials of the Mozambique Airports Company (ADM) were concluded, convicting the five defendants guilty of illicitly draining the company of USD 1.7 million and using the public funds for luxury houses and gifts to family members. In this first corruption case at ministerial level, Munguambe was sentenced to 20 years in prison, while the four former officials received prison sentences ranging between 2 and 22 years. However, according to another news article published by AFP in May 2011, the Supreme Court reduced the prison term for Munguambe from twenty years to four and a half years, giving the reason that embezzlement from a public company merited a lesser penalty than stealing money from the government

Frequency

The World Bank & IFC: Doing Business 2011:
- In order to obtain a construction permit, a company must go through 17 procedures and spend 381 days at a cost of approximately 530.3% of income per capita.

World Economic Forum: The Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011:
- Business executives give government administrative requirements (permits, regulations, reporting) in Mozambique a score of 3.4 on a 7-point scale (1 'extremely burdensome' and 7 'not burdensome at all').

Afrobarometer: Summary of Results Mozambique 2008:
- 58% of citizens surveyed who applied for an official document or a permit in 2007 did not pay any bribe to obtain it.

- 65% of respondents who applied for public utilities, such as water or sanitation did not pay any bribe to obtain it.

The World Bank & IFC: Enterprise Surveys 2007:

- 15% of companies surveyed report that they expect to make informal payments to public officials to 'get things done'.

- 7% of companies expect to give gifts in order to obtain an operating licence.

- 4% of companies expect to give gifts in order to obtain a construction permit.

- 9%, 16% and 18% of companies expect to give gifts to get a phone, water and electrical connection respectively.

- 14% of companies perceive business licences and permits as a major constraint to doing business.