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FIU warns Zimbabwe real estate sector

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has urged Zimbabwe's real estate sector to strengthen safeguards against illicit financial flows (IFFs), warning that the industry is increasingly being used to launder large sums of money.FIU Director…

Published: 17 Sep 2025 at 07:56hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter

RBZ's FIU goes after car dealerships

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's (RBZ) Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has singled out the country's car dealership industry as the most vulnerable sector to money laundering, warning that its cash-heavy operations are creating fertile gro…

Published: 12 Sep 2025 at 09:52hrs | | by Staff reporter

Logistics firm in exchange control violation

Mapho Tradelink Procurement and Logistics Private Limited, a leading procurement and logistics company, has been taken to court for allegedly breaching the Exchange Control Act by making payments exceeding US$150,000 outside Zimbabwe witho…

Published: 08 Aug 2025 at 13:08hrs | | by Staff reporter

RBZ crackdown on money laundering

Following an intensive investigation into smuggling, money laundering, and financial externalisation, Zimbabwean authorities have launched a crackdown targeting several businesspeople and companies implicated in illicit financial activitie…

Published: 08 Aug 2025 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff reporter

FIU targets informal sector ZiG manipulators

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), part of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), is intensifying efforts against the informal sector to combat currency manipulation aimed at undermining the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG). While compliance from reta…

Published: 26 Jun 2024 at 07:14hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's FIU to probe businesses inflating prices for USD bank transfers

THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has said it will investigate unethical behaviour exhibited by various businesses after it emerged that they are forcing customers to pay in hard cash by inflating prices for …

Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:00hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

RBZ scraps asset freeze on Gold Mafia-accused

THE Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has lifted the assets freeze orders placed against Ambassador Uebert Angel and three others implicated in alleged money laundering by Al Jazeera documentary series.The FIU is part of the Reserve Bank o…

Published: 16 May 2023 at 05:13hrs | 41 | by Staff reporter

Businesses ditch Zimdollar

GOVERNMENT yesterday threatened to unleash the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) on retailers refusing payment in the local currency or limiting the number of items consumers can buy in Zimdollar, which they say has become highly unstable.…

Published: 28 Apr 2023 at 07:04hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Currency Crimes: Four banks to face the music

FOUR banks have been placed under intense scrutiny and will face stiff penalties from the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) over allegations of involvement in illicit financial crimes that have led to the fall of the local currency on the …

Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 07:29hrs | 169 | by Staff Reporter

Mnangagwa unleashes Financial Intelligence Unit on currency speculators

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly instructed securocrats to work closely with the Financial Intelligence Unit to root out currency saboteurs.Sources privy to the Monday security briefs said the President made it very clear that c…

Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 16:24hrs | 2 | by Nkosana Maphosa

BREAKING: RBZ releases list of money launderers

MEASURES AGAINST INDIVIDUALS ABUSING MOBILE PHONE SERVICES AND SOCIAL MEDIA TO PROMOTE AND FACILITATE ILLEGAL FOREIGN EXCHANGE TRANSACTIONS AND MONEY-LAUNDERING ACTIVITIESThe Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has identified individuals lis…

Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 14:30hrs | 18 | by Staff Reporter

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