A property buying spree in South Africa by a top crony of Robert Mugabe’s is suspected to be part of a money laundering exercise, to process the illicit profits of Zimbabwe’s still controversial diamond trade.
An investigation by South Africa’s Mail & Guardian has followed the multi million rand spending spree by Robert Mhlanga, a reported close friend of the Mugabe family and Robert Mugabe’s former personal pilot. Mhlanga is also the Chairman of the Mbada diamond firm operating at the Chiadzwa diamond fields, where reports of smuggling and illegal dealings are still surfacing.
The Mail & Guardian report states that Mhlanga has been on R185-million property-buying spree in the past year, acquiring prime real estate on the Durban north coast and in one of the plushest areas of Sandton in Johannesburg.
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