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US, UK sanction Gold Mafia linked dealer

The United States and Britain imposed sanctions on several individuals and businesses linked to global gold smuggling and money laundering networks, with Zimbabwean businessman Kamlesh Pattni at the center of the operation.The sanctions, a…

Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 07:08hrs | 990 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe deports Chinese 'mafia'

A Chinese man, Chen Mo Yun, 44, believed to be the mastermind behind the illegal cremation of a woman in Harare, has been deported to China. Chen was flown out of the country last Wednesday after being implicated in a criminal operation th…

Published: 09 Dec 2024 at 07:05hrs | 1990 | by Staff reporter

Uebert Angel not off the hook

Anti-corruption watchdogs have petitioned the Southern African Development Community (Sadc), the African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN) to sanction President Emmerson Mnangagwa's special envoy Uebert Angel for allegedly abusing his…

Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:35hrs | | by Staff reporter

Uebert Angel presses panic button

Uebert Angel, the Zimbabwe's Ambassador at Large and Presidential Envoy who is in the eye of a storm after being implicated in the Gold Mafia documentary by Al Jazeera has pressed a panic button and will respond through his lawyer Professo…

Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 16:56hrs | | by Staff reporter

Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe fingered in Gold Mafia scandal

Government faces fresh dilemma on how to handle the gold smuggling and money laundering scandal exposed in a corruption busting Al Jazeera documentary after the central bank has also been fingered in the embarrassing crimes.Following the r…

Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 19:50hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe 'Gold Mafia' suspects' assets frozen

THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has frozen the assets of four officials who are implicated in gold smuggling, money laundering, bribery and other corrupt activities whose self-incriminating comments are conta…

Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:41hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa orders probe into 'Gold Mafia' scandal

Government says it has ordered an investigation into shock revelations of gold smuggling and money laundering by name dropping individuals recently exposed in a four-part Al Jazeera documentary.In a surprise climb down from its defiant sta…

Published: 05 Apr 2023 at 02:33hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

How the gold mafia scandal will affect Mnangagwa

The Al Jazeera investigative unit last week served the second episode of a four-part documentary, Gold Mafia, that makes interestingâ€” albeit unsurprising â€” watching.The exposÃ©s have spawned all sorts of reactions from all sorts of cor…

Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:04hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni

Gold Mafia: Zimbabwe government should rethink its policies!

The ExposÃ©, a documentary by Al Jazeera International, of what it calls the Zimbabwe Gold Mafia does not come as a surprise to journalists in Zimbabwe.The looting of Zimbabwe's sovereign minerals began a longtime ago with the tyrant Rober…

Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:04hrs | 2 | by Kenneth Mufuka

Who are Zimbabwe's Gold Mafia?

They operate from the shadows. Al Jazeera's latest investigation, The Gold Mafia, brings their crimes out into the open. Last week, Part 1 of â€˜Who are the Gold Mafia?â€˜ dove into the lives of some of Southern Africa's biggest money laun…

Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 07:40hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe in desperate need of national leaders not Mafia bosses and gang leaders!

It was the most heartbreaking sight - as images of a collapsed primary school in my home city of Kwekwe made the rounds across the country. In fact, the stab to my heart was made more excruciating - as if a knife was being cruelly turned a…

Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:17hrs | 11 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Zimbabwe harbours wanted Irish Mafia cartel boss

A ZIMBABWEAN businessman, Adam Lincoln Woodington Wood, has allegedly been harbouring and enabling the activities of the founder of an Irish mafia gang, Christopher Vincent Kinahan, who is on the wanted list of international law enforcemen…

Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:33hrs | 130 | by Staff reporter

'Mafia manipulating public transport sector'

THE Passengers Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) has alleged that the public transport sector was being manipulated by "mafia groups" which do not care about the rights as well as safety of passengers.PAZ recently condemned the state of buses …

Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

British-born Zimbabweans at the helm of the 'Gauteng mafia'

Sources close to Kinnear have revealed that the detective, who was investigating a nationwide gun-licensing racket involving SAPS officials and gangsters, was closing in on the 'Gauteng mafia' and its illicit gold and diamond dealings.A te…

Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 12:21hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe cigarette mafia boss shot in South Africa

Reports from South Africa indicate that cigarette mafia boss Simon Rudland survived an assassination attempt on Wednesday. Announcing the tragedy Norton member of Parliament Temba Mliswa said, "Have just heard that Simon Rudland was nearly…

Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 08:49hrs | 6 | by Mandla Ndlovu

'Mafia gang stifles Bulawayo art'

COMEDIAN Carl Joshua Ncube has alleged that there is an eight-member "mafia" which is killing Bulawayo art by oppressing artistes from the city.Ncube sensationally made the claims on social media saying the gang also does not want artistes…

Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 07:17hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

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