{"id":77317,"date":"2023-04-29T20:54:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T18:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/cio-bosses-scoff-at-uebert-angel-claims-on-their-role-in-gold-mafia"},"modified":"2023-04-29T20:54:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T18:54:33","slug":"cio-bosses-scoff-at-uebert-angel-claims-on-their-role-in-gold-mafia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/cio-bosses-scoff-at-uebert-angel-claims-on-their-role-in-gold-mafia","title":{"rendered":"CIO Bosses Scoff At Uebert Angel Claims On Their Role In \u201cGold Mafia\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Senior Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) officials say Uebert Angel (real surname Mudzanire) misled the public when he claimed that what people saw on Al Jazeera\u2019s investigative documentary \u201cGold Mafia\u201d \u201cwas not real; it was acting\u201d as part of \u201ca classified national intelligence assignment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the final episode of the Gold Mafia documentary titled \u201cHave The King With You\u201d, Angel\u2019s lawyer Lovemore Madhuku, said his client was working with national intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Madhuku said that after Angel was approached by the purported investors, he consulted the national intelligence to do security checks on them and was advised that something suspicious was going on.<\/p>\n<p>However, senior CIO officers who spoke to The NewsHawks dismissed Angel\u2019s assertions saying there was no CIO operation of the nature Angel claims. Said the senior CIO officer:<\/p>\n<p>What Angel said through his lawyer is fiction. There was no such an intelligence operation.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, even if it was there he would not be the one to speak about it.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn\u2019t work for CIO and knows nothing about how it operates and its internal dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn\u2019t know what he is talking about, but what he said is being viewed and taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p>It will be acted upon. There will be an internal process to deal with that.<\/p>\n<p>Another CIO boss said President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s Envoy and Ambassador-at-Large was \u201cwaffling\u201d. Said the official:<\/p>\n<p>He was just waffling. How would he know of our operations that we who work don\u2019t know anything about? There is no such thing.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just a smokescreen to cover his tracks and protect the chefs (Mnangagwa and Auxillia). In fact, the whole thing is ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>If that was an intelligence operation, it would be more serious, clinical and sophisticated, not mahumbwe aya (child\u2019s play).<\/p>\n<p>Intelligence operations of that nature are not child\u2019s play.<\/p>\n<p>The Gold Mafia investigation by Al Jazeera\u2019s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) is a four-part documentary that revealed a series of gold smuggling gangs in Southern Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The gangs help criminals launder hundreds of millions of dollars, getting rich themselves while plundering their nations.<\/p>\n<p>They turn dirty cash into clean, seemingly legitimate money for those with large amounts of unaccounted wealth.<\/p>\n<p>The gangs do so by using a complex web of companies, counterfeit identities and fake documents.<\/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. Senior Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) officials say Uebert Angel (real surname Mudzanire) misled the public when he claimed that what people saw on Al Jazeera\u2019s investigative documentary \u201cGold Mafia\u201d \u201cwas not real; it was acting\u201d as part of \u201ca classified national intelligence assignment\u201d. Speaking after the final episode of the Gold Mafia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":77316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[1493,2189,14199,14423,14473,3761,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-77317","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-gold-mafia","12":"tag-gold-mafia-al-jazeera-documentary","13":"tag-gold-mafia-documentary","14":"tag-uebert-angel","15":"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>CIO Bosses Scoff At Uebert Angel Claims On Their Role In \u201cGold Mafia\u201d - 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\/cio-bosses-scoff-at-uebert-angel-claims-on-their-role-in-gold-mafia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CIO Bosses Scoff At Uebert Angel Claims On Their Role In \u201cGold Mafia\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. 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