{"id":76812,"date":"2023-04-16T22:38:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T20:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gold-mafia-macmillan-says-hes-done-bribing-politicians-to-smuggle-gold"},"modified":"2023-04-16T22:38:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T20:38:08","slug":"gold-mafia-macmillan-says-hes-done-bribing-politicians-to-smuggle-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gold-mafia-macmillan-says-hes-done-bribing-politicians-to-smuggle-gold","title":{"rendered":"Gold Mafia: Macmillan Says He\u2019s Done Bribing Politicians To Smuggle Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Zimbabwean businessman and alleged gold smuggler Ewan Macmillan says he is done bribing politicians to smuggle gold out of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Macmillan (aka Mr. Gold) was featured in the final episode of the Gold Mafia Al Jazeera documentary titled \u201cHave The King With You\u201d released on Friday, 14 April.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the undercover journalists who posed as Chinese gangsters who wanted to wash dirty money, Macmillan said:<\/p>\n<p>I will never go down that road again. You pay, you pay, you pay, you pay and you pay.<\/p>\n<p>And you think this is so much money. Why am I paying this much money?<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s Ambassador at Large and Presidential Envoy to Europe and the Americas, Uebert Angel, was also filmed by Al Jazeera\u2019s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) deriding Macmillan, saying he was no longer \u201cMr. Gold\u201d and had been overtaken by his former employee Pedzisai \u201cScott\u201d Sakupwanya.<\/p>\n<p>Angel also showed the reporters pictures of Sakupwanya flaunting his US$5 million cash and some gold bars on 29 June 2020. He said:<\/p>\n<p>He is the biggest gold guy in Zimbabwe. He\u2019s right there, he\u2019s in his house, sleeping on five million U.S. dollars.<\/p>\n<p>This guy used to clean MacMillan\u2019s car. Macmillan was the one that this one worked for. It\u2019s good we know it\u2019s Macmillan.<\/p>\n<p>Macmillan doesn\u2019t control nothing. This was his worker cleaning his car. He is the number one now in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Scott is number one. Number one without a doubt. We can just call him right now.<\/p>\n<p>Angel then called Sakupwanya in the presence of the undercover reporters. He said:<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019ve got some good investors for you here. They are hearing you already. From January, what have you gotten right now? What have you sold?<\/p>\n<p>Scott said he had sold six tonnes of gold in 10 months. When Angel asked about what happens when someone invests with him, Sakupwanya said:<\/p>\n<p>I guess I can take ten percent per month.<\/p>\n<p>He said if he gets cash from someone, he gives them ten percent per month for the money they invest with him.<\/p>\n<p>Scott said the investors are 100 per guaranteed to get a return for their investment.<\/p>\n<p>On being asked by Angel how he moves the money back to the investor, he said:<\/p>\n<p>It depends on where they are from. If they are from Dubai, I can pay into their Dubai account&#8230; Anywhere, anywhere in the world, I can manage to do the transfer. Not a problem for me.<\/p>\n<p>According to Angel, Sakupwanya has managed to keep his wealth, and proceeds to gold, due to his loyalty to Mnangagwa. He said:<\/p>\n<p>Because he is (pointing above, to indicate that he is Mnangagwa\u2019s man) &#8230; and the president.<\/p>\n<p>According to Al Jazeera, the gold smugglers carry Zimbabwe\u2019s gold to Dubai, where it is then sold in exchange for clean cash.<\/p>\n<p>This money is transferred to the bank accounts of the money launderers, who hand over an equivalent amount of their dirty dollars to the Zimbabwe government through the smugglers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Zimbabwean businessman and alleged gold smuggler Ewan Macmillan says he is done bribing politicians to smuggle gold out of the country. Macmillan (aka Mr. Gold) was featured in the final episode of the Gold Mafia Al Jazeera documentary titled \u201cHave The King With You\u201d released on Friday, 14 April. Speaking to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":76811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[1493,2189,14162,14199,14423,14473,14548,3841,3842,9831,3761,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-76812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-economy","9":"tag-africa-press","10":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","11":"tag-ewan-macmillan","12":"tag-gold-mafia","13":"tag-gold-mafia-al-jazeera-documentary","14":"tag-gold-mafia-documentary","15":"tag-gold-mafia-episode-4","16":"tag-pedzisai-sakupwanya","17":"tag-pedzisai-scott-sakupwanya","18":"tag-scott-sakupwanya","19":"tag-uebert-angel","20":"tag-zimbabwe"},"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>Gold Mafia: Macmillan Says He\u2019s Done Bribing Politicians To Smuggle Gold - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gold-mafia-macmillan-says-hes-done-bribing-politicians-to-smuggle-gold\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gold Mafia: Macmillan Says He\u2019s Done Bribing Politicians To Smuggle Gold\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. 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