{"id":76311,"date":"2023-04-06T12:04:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T10:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/enablers-being-sacrificed-for-the-real-gold-mafia"},"modified":"2023-04-06T14:28:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T12:28:13","slug":"enablers-being-sacrificed-for-the-real-gold-mafia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/enablers-being-sacrificed-for-the-real-gold-mafia","title":{"rendered":"\u201cEnablers Being Sacrificed For The Real Gold Mafia\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Award-winning Zimbabwean journalist and filmmaker Hopewell Chin\u2019ono says the four individuals whose assets have been frozen by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) are not the Gold Mafia but are being sacrificed for \u201cthe big ones\u201d.<\/p>\n

The RBZ Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has frozen the assets of four officials who were caught on camera confessing that they are involved in gold smuggling, money laundering, bribery and other corrupt activities.<\/p>\n

In a memo seen by The Herald, the FIU directs that the assets of Cleopas Chidodo, David Chirozvi, Mehlululi Dube and Fredrick Kunaka be frozen. Commenting on the article, Chin\u2019ono said:<\/p>\n

I have read the article, there is no Angel, there is no Henrietta Rushwaya, there is no Ewan Macmillan, and there is no Kamlesh Pattni.<\/p>\n

Cleopas Chidodo, David Chirozvi, Mehluli Dube and Fredrik Kunaka are not the Gold Mafia, they are only enablers being sacrificed for the big ones!<\/p>\n

The four individuals were featured in a documentary by Al Jazeera titled \u201cGold Mafia\u201d and were filmed by undercover journalists who posed as investors revealing how they facilitate gold smuggling and money laundering.<\/p>\n

Chidodo is the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe Head of Security. He appeared in Episode 2 of the documentary explaining how he assists gold smugglers avoid detection at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport.<\/p>\n

Chirozvi is the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe\u2019s Aurex Jewellery Head of Finance.<\/p>\n

Kunaka is the General Manager of Fidelity Printers and Refiners. He told the undercover reporters that he received a kickback of US$30 000 a month from the \u201cGold Mafia\u201d.<\/p>\n

Dube, who is associated with Golden Beryl Private Limited, was allegedly being paid US$3 000 per month by the gold smuggling syndicate.<\/p>\n

Uebert Angel, Henrietta Rushwaya, Ewan Macmillan and Kamlesh Pattni were featured in Episode One of the Gold Mafia documentary.<\/p>\n

According to Al Jazeera, Kamlesh Pattni aka \u201cBrother Paul\u201d was born in Kenya and knows better than anyone how to smuggle gold worth millions of dollars \u2014 and get away with it.<\/p>\n

He told undercover reporters that he could help them launder more than US$100 million, saying \u201cI don\u2019t know how you came to me, but I think God must have sent you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Angel was appointed a special envoy and ambassador-at-large to Europe and the Americas by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in 2021.<\/p>\n

He offered to Al Jazeera\u2019s undercover reporters that he could use his diplomatic cover to carry millions of dirty cash into Zimbabwe as part of a laundering operation also involving gold smuggling.<\/p>\n

Rushwaya is the person whom Angel and his personal assistant Rikki Doolan get in touch with when they want to discuss buying gold for their laundering scam.<\/p>\n

Macmillan aka Mr. Gold was first jailed for gold smuggling in the early 1990s when he was just 21 years old.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. Award-winning Zimbabwean journalist and filmmaker Hopewell Chin\u2019ono says the four individuals whose assets have been frozen by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) are not the Gold Mafia but are being sacrificed for \u201cthe big ones\u201d. 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