{"id":35693,"date":"2021-02-28T19:57:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T17:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=35693"},"modified":"2021-02-28T18:18:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T16:18:41","slug":"mugabes-nephew-claims-their-relationship-was-bad-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mugabes-nephew-claims-their-relationship-was-bad-for-business","title":{"rendered":"Mugabe\u2019s Nephew Claims Their Relationship Was Bad For Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Robert Mugabe\u2019s nephew-in-law Adam Molai who is the co-founder and chairperson of Pacific Cigarettes Company claims his personal relationship with the late Pan Africanist caused stunted growth of his business empire.<\/p>\n<p>Molai who is married to Mugabe\u2019s nephew, Sandra said \u201cthere is a general desire to paint any African success by aligning it with some politician.\u201d He added:<\/p>\n<p>If anything, the personal relation (with Mugabe), has been an albatross around my neck because it has culminated in this bigotry that has been a hindrance to all our business exploits.<\/p>\n<p>Molai made the remarks in a YouTube video posted on February 18 while responding to a report published by South Africa\u2019s Maverick Citizen, titled Zimbabwe Cartel Power Dynamics Report which implicated him as one of the kingpins in a multi-million dollar cigarette smuggling cartel.<\/p>\n<p>The report dedicates two pages to scrutinising Molai\u2019s company and how his personal relationship with Mugabe augmented his seemingly immune participation in the alleged illicit cigarette trade. Reads the part report:<\/p>\n<p>The main cigarette smuggling cartels consist of 1) political bosses who allow cartels to operate with impunity, 2) transport companies that deliver cigarettes, and 3) distribution networks in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Molai, however, scoffed at the allegations saying the report lacked logic. He said:<\/p>\n<p>This is a tired and discredited allegation that Pacific Cigarettes are the most smuggled cigarettes into South Africa. It\u2019s a patently false allegation. Maverick relies on some obscure article where an individual was arrested carrying 150 Pacific boxes. Putting this into perspective, South Africa consumes between 270 000 to 300 000 boxes of cigarettes per annum. So how 150 boxes can be used to extrapolate and support such a ludicrous claim baffles me.<\/p>\n<p>Zim Morning Post observes that contrary to Molai\u2019s claims that his personal relationship with Mugabe was a \u201chindrance to all our business exploits,\u201d it is during the late Mugabe\u2019s reign that the company dominated the market.<\/p>\n<p>During that time, Molai entered into an agreement with China Tobacco Shaanxi Industrial Corporation (CTSIC), to manufacture cigarettes for the Chinese diaspora in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe\u2019s nephew-in-law Adam Molai who is the co-founder and chairperson of Pacific Cigarettes Company claims his personal relationship with the late Pan Africanist caused stunted growth of his business empire. Molai who is married to Mugabe\u2019s nephew, Sandra said \u201cthere is a general desire to paint any African success by aligning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":35692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[3316,1493,2189,3314,30,19,3315],"class_list":{"0":"post-35693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-policy","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-adam-molai","12":"tag-africa-press","13":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","14":"tag-pacific-cigarettes-company","15":"tag-robert-mugabe","16":"tag-zimbabwe","17":"tag-zimbabwe-cartel-power-dynamics-report"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mugabe\u2019s Nephew Claims Their Relationship Was Bad For Business - 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