President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s close business associate Alexander Zingman, a dodgy tycoon with vast networks with African leaders, has been transferred to Kinshasa after his arrest in Lumbumbashi in DRC.
Zimbabwean and other consulates there making frantic bids to release him.
Zimbabwean and other consulates there making frantic bids to release him.
Zingman’s company AF Trade DMCC confirmed he was arrested with another Belarusian Oleg Vodchits and Italian businessman Paolo Persico - not yesterday - but on 18 March 2021.
He had held meetings with former president Joseph Kabila and was coming to Harare to see Mnangagwa.
He had held meetings with former president Joseph Kabila and was coming to Harare to see Mnangagwa.
“We are extremely worried,” Henadzi Mosesau from AF Trade DMCC told AFP.
“Despite several attempts by the family, by AF Trade, as well as the US and Zimbabwean consulates to seek information about their well-being, there has been no sign of life for over three days.”
“Despite several attempts by the family, by AF Trade, as well as the US and Zimbabwean consulates to seek information about their well-being, there has been no sign of life for over three days.”
Zingman, who is close to Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko, has cut a US$58 million agricultural equipment deal with Mnangagwa; he has been up and down between Minsk and Harare.
Sources close to their dealings say there are many other self-serving deals they are involved in.
Sources close to their dealings say there are many other self-serving deals they are involved in.
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