Zimbabwe Republic Police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba told The Sunday Mail that police are investigating former First Lady Grace Mugabe for allegedly smuggling ivory worth millions of dollars to China, the United Arab Emirates and the United States, among other destinations.
Charamba said the police received a report from an anonymous source. The Sunday Mail reports Grace could be questioned by law enforcement soon, alongside officials in the Office of the President and Cabinet who she allegedly ordered to issue her with export permits issued in terms of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), under the pretext that she was sending the ivory to leaders of various countries as “gifts”.
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On October 29, 2017, officials OPC allegedly forced Zimparks Director-General Mr Fulton Mangwanya to sign for consignments he had not inspected. They wrote a letter to Mr Mangwanya saying:
Urgent Cites permit is being sought to clear State gifts presented by the principal to guests from China on Sunday, 29 October 2017. The guests will be returning to China on Monday, 30 October 2017 with morning flight which will depart Harare International Airport at 0800hours, hence requesting that the urgent Cites permit should be ready today (Sunday, 29 October 2017). The gifts have been purchased by Office of the President and Cabinet from F Madzinga Ivory Manufacturers of Harare.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Special Advisor, Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa, said the OPC was seized with the matter.
More: Sunday Mail
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