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Gold Mafia: Financial Intelligence Unit, Police Intensify Investigations

2 years agoFri, 21 Apr 2023 04:38:08 GMT

Gold Mafia: Financial Intelligence Unit, Police Intensify Investigations

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), and the Zimbabwe Anti-corruption Commission (ZACC) have intensified investigations into eight individuals implicated in the Al Jazeera Gold Mafia four-part documentary series.

This comes amid concerns that Zimbabwe risks violating the strict regulations of the Financial Action Task Force (FAFT), an international policy-making and standard-setting body dedicated to combating money laundering and terrorist financing.

Zimbabwe has made the necessary reforms to address its money laundering and terrorist financing weaknesses and has been removed from the grey list by FAFT.

FIU director general Oliver Chiperesa told Business Times that they are working with law enforcement agencies to identify assets and analyse transactions to establish possible links to crime. He said:

The interim measures were also taken while monitoring and analysing the documentary episodes as they came out to see if there was further information that could potentially be used in criminal investigations.
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After all the episodes, we are now sitting down with other relevant agencies and evaluating what is available, and deciding on the next course of action.
The FIU will not make a decision alone but in close consultation with law enforcement agencies as we always do.

FIU has ordered the freezing of assets and accounts belonging to Ewan McMillan, Kamlesh Pattni, Uebert Mudzanire (aka Angel), and Simon Rudland. Said Chiperesa:

The freezing is not a seizure of the funds or assets but simply an interim measure and a precaution to ensure that potential proceeds of crime are not disposed of or transferred before law enforcement agents can commence possible investigations.
It is important to emphasise that what is there at the moment are largely allegations and suspicions.

Angel, who is President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s special envoy and ambassador-at-large to Europe and the Americas, and a preacher, was secretly filmed by undercover Al Jazeera reporters offering to use his diplomatic cover to launder large volumes of cash into Zimbabwe as part of a gold smuggling operation.

He and his side-kick Rikki Doolan were also seen repeatedly name-dropping President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s name.

The United Kingdom’s upper house of Parliament, the House of Lords, wants the British government to probe the allegations of criminal activity against its citizen, Angel.

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28 Comments

Monya Nhete · 2 years ago

by "intensifying" they mean they are doing absolutely nothing. Do you think they will investigate and arrest their own forget and smile

Anonymous · 2 years ago

While we are still investigating, the looting and the smuggling is in progress.... HkG

Anonymous · 1 year ago

Yeah true they shld juc have said dat

Anonymous · 2 years ago

Criminals surrounding the president.History repeating itself kwakaenda bhobho newewo ed

rtgs · 2 years ago

pane nyaya they may fail to be investigated and the results will be good for them but don't forget that the vice president is not implicated in this case will he accept this nonsense pane nyaya nevamwe vake ndokutenda kuti aaah hazvina basa pane nyaya ****mori idzi dzainzi mbinga munyika ino ndozvikara kugold mafia

uGatsheni boya beNyathi · 2 years ago

i wonder where is George Charamba with all the noise he made about the aljazeera documentary saying it's a non event umwe anonyura pashata

Ewan Macmillano · 2 years ago

Hehehe Drama

Putin 🇷🇺 🇷🇺 🇷🇺 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐔 · 2 years ago

Kkkkk FIU is a fake organization that pretend to be oblivious or blind in this case when it is the one creating loophole, instead it is intensifying it work of sweeping the case under carpet

Anonymous · 2 years ago

FIU iyi ngaichinje zita inzi Financial Stupidity Unit (FSU). How can they wait for an Aljazeera Documentary kuti vazive mbavha dzemunyika mavo

Givemore Makandeni · 2 years ago

well said apo

Flossie · 2 years ago

@ Sorojena well said

kazekage · 2 years ago

kupiko ma puppets eeh zanupf ayo yatova yaka loader iyi

,... · 2 years ago

"largely allegations and suspicions." To me they were more like confessions of how they launder the money.

Stitch · 2 years ago

Let's hope these are sincere investigations and not meant to sanitize the whole underhand deals. People like Henrietta have so far not been affected despite being soiled by the series.It raises a lot of eyebrows regarding the authenticity of probing. Remember she was once directly affected in gold smuggling but was let loose and she continues to sit at the helm of miners federation. I think she was strategically positioned to play a pivotal role in smuggling and is well protected. This moment the investigation teams must monitor her assets too and definitely there are shifts and movements. What she has now is buffer time frame to safeguard her assets before authorities descend on her.She is not the only one protected. I hope other countries like UAE and UK make their own investigations to augment local investigations since the appointment of international forensic audit by Zimbabwe is very unlikely. So many people in crucial positions including Reserve bank and Fidelity printers were supposed to have been placed on forced leave to avoid a situation where victims would audit themselves. Remember the figures involved are more than our GDP so parliamentarians must be liable for the redress

Sorojena · 2 years ago

It's easier said than done... As long as they're not touching the first family the so called investigation is doomed. This Fiu investigation is just created to sanitize the scandal...we know already that the whole scandal is taken as an intelligence operation whose goals were unknown.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

The FIU is investigating allegations in which the RBZ is complicit, through its association with its subsidiary Fidelity Printers. The FIU reports to the RBZ because it is a subsidiary of the RBZ. Do the math. As for the ZRP, they are waiting for the go ahead to arrest Chief Charumbira, do you think they would want to involve themselves in issues that implicate ED and his family? Truth is this story is dead in the water and no one is investigating anything, no one has the appetite nor the balls.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

Madii masunga here👮mnangagwa let justice be done

Fifi · 2 years ago

WE WANTS RESULTS ISU NOT STATEMENTS AND UNNECESSARY HYPE

Fake · 2 years ago

Hapana zviripo makumbo enyoka... tirikuvharwa kumeso

Anonymous · 2 years ago

Yesterday it was claimed that it was all an act and the Zimbabwean Intelligence team knows about it but today they are intensifying their investigation, digging deeper to bring perpetrators to justice. It's, either our media doesn't get all the facts in time or our country and its operations or systems are dead. Just nullify his ambassador benefit indefinitely until ue are done investing also the Airport guy allow him to go for leave so that you can investigate without any disturbance..

GOLD MAFIA BOSS · 2 years ago

@Tkt they were caught unaware and they are full of panicking and changing statements on daily basis and a the end of the day trapping themselves

Tkt · 2 years ago

@GMB.... Wareva idi apo mwanaa

Tkt · 2 years ago

Hmm, thc is great. I thought FIU would even be bold enough to talk about Number One's Assets as well as Prisca's, Grace's, & everyone mentioned on the Documentary manje eh