Leaked Document: Chiwenga Accuses Tagwirei Of Stealing US$1.9 Billion From Government

A confidential document written by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga and presented to the ZANU-PF Politburo on 17 September has leaked.

In the seven-page presentation, Chiwenga accused businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei of orchestrating what he described as “the brazen and systematic looting” of state resources, using the proceeds to capture key state and party structures.

Chiwenga alleged that Tagwirei alone siphoned more than US$1.9 billion from public funds through the Ministry of Finance under the pretext of selling a 35 per cent stake in Kuvimba Mining House to the government.

He further claimed that Tagwirei had illegally taken control of state assets, including Sandawana Mine and the Zimbabwe Defence Forces’ stake in Great Dyke Investments, incorporating them into his private business empire.

Chiwenga also accused Tagwirei of concealing ZANU PF’s supposed 45 per cent shareholding in Sakunda Holdings, held through a company called Mvuto Investments (Pvt) Ltd, which he said had been purchased in 2013 as part of a party investment initiative.

The vice president named other figures, including Wicknell Chivayo, Scott Sakupwanya, and Delish Nguwaya, alleging that together they had stolen more than US$3.2 billion in government funds.

According to the document, Chiwayo stole US$45 million from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission and more than US$193 million “through one bank.”

Sakupwanya allegedly took over US$800 million through the “gold incentive scheme, which has now become a tollgate fraud,” while Nguwaya reportedly benefited from US$222 million in inflated government contracts, including the Pomona waste-to-energy project and Clean Planet Resources supply deals with the Ministry of Health.

Chiwenga also claimed that the businessmen were funding the so-called “2030 Agenda,” a campaign aimed at extending President Mnangagwa’s tenure beyond the constitutional limit, and bribing party structures to support it. He wrote:

“The time for silence and inaction is over. We cannot fold our hands while these criminals steal from our state coffers and use the same resources to corrupt our party and destroy our revolution.”

The vice president also warned that the group had effectively turned the president’s private office into a “parallel centre for government decision-making.”

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