Zimbabwe’s government is accused of using smuggling gangs to sell gold worth hundreds of millions of dollars, skirting some of the consequences of harsh Western sanctions imposed on the country over human rights abuses.
According to Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit), the smuggling feeds into an enormous money-laundering operation, all facilitated by Fidelity Gold Refinery, a subsidiary of Zimbabwe’s Central Bank, and enabled, in some cases, directly by senior government officials and relatives of the country’s president, Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Meanwhile, the country’s Ambassador-at-Large and self-proclaimed Prophet Uebert Angel “has been stripped of his diplomatic passport and all status,” according to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s economic adviser Eddie Cross after the bombshell corruption revelations by Al Jazeera.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/DW Africa
