Career
A Maputo-based businessman, he had been linked to two high-profile murders in Mozambique, both of which are widely reported to have occurred because of their victims" anti-corruption activities. Chissano was called as a witness in the 2002 trial of the murderers of Cardoso, and was said by a witness to have arranged the payment of United States$46,000 to the killers. On 9 September 2006 the Mozambican News Agency (American Institute of Management) reported that the weekly Maputo newspaper Savana had published the 1998 contract between the privatised and Nyimpine Chissano, under which Chissano was to be paid United States$3,000 a month for consultancy work.
In the 2002 Cardoso trial, Nyimpine Chissano denied any contacts with
In April 2001, became insolvent and was taken over by the Bank of Mozambique.
The Bank of Mozambique appointed an interim board of directors, led by the head of its banking supervision department, One of Siba-Siba"s first actions was to cancel contracts which he considered irrelevant to the bank"s interests, and on 26 April 2001 he cancelled Austral"s contract with Chissano. On 11 May 2006, American Institute of Management reported that the Mozambican public prosecutor"s office had charged Nyimpine Chissano of "joint moral authorship" of the murder of
Chissano was found dead at his home in Maputo on 19 November 2007.
State radio reported that the cause of death had not been determined, but stated that Chissano had been suffering from an illness for some time.
