Weekly publication, The Zimbabwe Independent reports that the Mugabes are paying up to US$500 000 annually in rentals for an upmarket villa in Emirates Hills, Dubai. The rentals translate to US$42 000 per month, enough to buy two houses in some of Harare’s high-density suburbs monthly. This is where Mugabe’s first born son Robert Jr stays.
This information is contained in Lebanese businessman Jamal Ahmed’s High Court affidavit filed through his lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa on Wednesday in response to Grace’s opposing affidavit where she denied that she wanted a wire transfer while in Dubai, arguing she does not hold a foreign bank account..
In the affidavit, Ahmed claims that the Mugabe family have a bank account in Dubai as they rent a 10-bedroomed villa whose address is J11 Emirates Hill. Part of the affidavit reads:
Whether or not the second respondent has accounts outside Zimbabwe does not mean she did not ask for a refund in Dubai. The second respondent’s family rents a 10-bedroomed villa at the Emirates Hills in Dubai and the address of the villa is J11. I am able to say that this is an exclusive and upmarket area where annual rentals are around US$500 000. If the respondent has no accounts outside the country, how does her family pay the rent for this villa which is mainly occupied by her son who lives there? And, of course, there are the living expenses which cannot be low given the affluence of the area.
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