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UN calls on Zimbabwe to curb illicit financial flows

The United Nations resident and humanitarian coordinator in Zimbabwe, Edward Kallon, has urged the government to take urgent measures to curb illicit financial flows (IFFs), warning that billions of dollars are being lost to money launderi…

Published: 13 Aug 2025 at 08:49hrs | 208 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe Prosecutor General decries widespread corruption

Prosecutor-General Loyce Matanda-Moyo has issued a scathing condemnation of rampant corruption in Zimbabwe, warning that the scourge is robbing citizens of critical services and crippling national development.Speaking at the launch of the …

Published: 01 Aug 2025 at 08:09hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Police destroy tonnes of illicit drugs

Police yesterday publicly destroyed 18,896 litres of illicit brews, 30 kilograms of banned skin lightening products, and 121 kilograms of dagga as part of intensified efforts to curb drug and substance abuse across Zimbabwe.The destruction…

Published: 01 Aug 2025 at 08:07hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter

7 executives arrested over illicit ethanol-laced brews

Police have arrested seven company executives suspected of producing and distributing illicit brews containing ethanol, which were supplied to the public and shops across the country. The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) confirmed the arrest…

Published: 02 Jul 2025 at 09:24hrs | 284 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe names more illicit drinks

The Government has announced a sweeping ban on a range of dangerous alcoholic beverages through Statutory Instrument (S.I.) No. 62 of 2025, invoking the Harmful Liquids Act to combat the growing threat of illicit brews to public health. Th…

Published: 13 Jun 2025 at 06:24hrs | 1357 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe grapples with surge of dangerous fake and illicit alcohol

Zimbabwe is facing a major public health crisis as dangerous and illicit alcohol floods cities like Bulawayo. Among the most notorious is "njengu," a highly potent brew produced in makeshift backyard distilleries, often located in abandone…

Published: 23 Nov 2024 at 12:53hrs | 243 | by Staff reporter

Foreigners fuel Zimbabwe's wildlife illicit financial flows

It was business as usual for Mgcini Ncube when he was caught by detectives while skinning an impala deep inside Victoria Falls' Zambezi National Park.Ncube (37) had set up a temporary structure at the game park where police recovered two d…

Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 09:00hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

The whole gold hullabaloo about Zimbabwe illicit gold is plain codswallop and balderdash

The whole gold hullabaloo about illicit gold is plain codswallop and balderdash. The countryâ€˜s detractors coalesced around George Soros and his Open Society Institute of Southern Africa are clearly miffed and terribly disappointed that Z…

Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 20:33hrs | 7 | by Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa

ZACC guns for US$7bn assets illicitly siphoned out of the country

An estimated US$7 billion worth of assets were illicitly siphoned out of the country through corruption and money laundering and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is now ratcheting up measures to recover the ill-gotten gains.Z…

Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Chinese now influential players in illicit gold trade study

CHINESE nationals are now "prominent and influential actors" in Zimbabwe's lucrative gold sector and have formed questionable partnerships with the elite in Zanu-PF and senior law enforcement agents.The foreign nationals are also reported …

Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:26hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Illicit brew kills one, 3 hospitalised

One person died at St Alberts Hospital on Monday while three others were hospitalised after the excessive drinking of undiluted cane spirits.Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Inspector Milton Mundembe confirmed incident."I can confir…

Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:15hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe loses billions to illicit financial flows

GOVERNMENT should complement monetary policy changes with an anti-corruption strategy to curb illicit financial flows (IFFs) as the country is losing billions annually, businessdigest has learnt.IFFs are seen to spiralling this year owing …

Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 12:37hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Unpacking Zimbabwe's mining sector illicit financial flows

Soon after his inauguration the President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa announced that he has a list of individuals and corporates that has been externalizing money and assets and granted them a three-month moratorium to bring them back a…

Published: 31 May 2018 at 12:00hrs | 4 | by Davison Kaiyo

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