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Controversial preacher Uebert Angel has reportedly donated 5 600 bags of foodstuffs to ZANU PF supporters.
According to the Twitter handle @zanupf_patriots, Angel made the donation this Wednesday. <a href="https://twitter.com/zanupf_patriots/status/1681360787376308239?s=20">It said</a>:
<blockquote>
Thank you, Ambassador Uebert Angel… Today Ambassador Angel donated 5 600 bags of food to families who had gathered in support of Cde ED and our party candidates.
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</blockquote>
Angel was appointed Presidential Envoy and Ambassador at Large for Europe and the Americas by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on 17 March 2021.
He is also a self-proclaimed prophet and the founder and leader of Good News Church, formerly Spirit Embassy.
Angel claims God uses him to heal the sick and predict the outcomes of elections and football matches.
In early 2021, an Al Jazeera documentary called “Gold Mafia” alleged that Angel offered to use his status to assist Al Jazeera reporters who posed as Chinese nationals launder millions of dollars through a gold-smuggling scheme.
Angel claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was aware of his schemes. He said in one of the episodes:
<blockquote>
I can call the president now, not tomorrow, now and put him on speaker, it’s not an issue. We are the government.
</blockquote>
Despite being caught on camera bragging that he could use his diplomatic cover to carry large volumes of dirty cash into Zimbabwe as part of a laundering operation also involving gold smuggling, Angel was recently appointed as the African Union’s Pan African Parliament (PAP) Ambassador for Interfaith Dialogue and Humanitarian Affairs.
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Uebert Angel Donates Food To ZANU PF Supporters

An Al Jazeera investigative journalist who posed as a secretary to a fake Chinese gangster in the <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Aljazeera_2023_Zimbabwe_Corruption_Documentary/">Gold Mafia series</a> has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa was <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2023/04/15/gold-mafia-uebert-angel-says-it-was-all-an-act-a-classified-national-intelligence-operation/">called by his</a> emissary <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Uebert_Angel/">Uebert Angel</a>, but the call was not recorded.
Mnangagwa allegedly offered a part of the Zambezi River shores for development and requested a one-on-one meeting with the team to finalize deals. An initial meeting with Mnangagwa was cancelled after the journalists refused to pay a $200 000 ‘facilitation fee’ to Angel. The journalist who posed as Miss Sin said:
<blockquote>
This meeting is one of those I will never forget, one of my biggest regrets happens at this meeting. Ambassador Angel takes me away from the group, one on one and puts his finger to his lips to tell me to keep quiet, I did not have any recording devices on me because the other people on the team had them.
Sometimes we would change it up a bit, who is recording and who is not. Angel dials who he tells me is President Emmerson Mnangagwa, so I am seated in the booth and hearing him speak to the President.
A lot of it is in Shona but the President is talking about how we should do more than just the casino on the Victoria Falls, he says what about the Zambezi River and talks about how we should have a one-on-one meeting with him.
</blockquote>
According to the documentary, President Mnangagwa’s wife Auxillia was recorded advising Uebert Angel to contact the President regarding the mode of transportation for smuggled gold.
Angel was a central figure who provided details and audio to the investigative team and has been cleared of suspicions. He claimed to be vetting possible investors before taking them to the President, according to his lawyer Lovemore Madhuku.
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Al Jazeera Speaks On President Mnangagwa's Unrecorded Call From Uebert Angel

A government official from Eswatini has described Gold Mafia, the Al Jazeera documentary that exposed syndicates that are behind massive gold smuggling and money laundering in Zimbabwe, as a personal fight against Uebert Angel.
In the documentary, Zimbabwe featured prominently after Uebert Angel, born Hubert Mudzanire, was secretly recorded offering to help undercover Al Jazeera journalists to launder US$1,2 billion in dirty money.
Al Jazeera journalists had introduced themselves to Angel as part of Chinese criminals that wanted to clean dirty money through gold smuggling.
The documentary also touched on the smuggling of Zimbabwean cigarettes into South Africa and money laundering.
In a video that has gone viral on social media, Eswatini government spokesperson Alphaeous Nxumalo described the exposé as a personal vendetta against Angel who is President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ambassador-at-large.
Nxumalo claimed there was a plot to smear Mnangagwa’s name and scuttle Zimbabwe’s investment deals. <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/local-news/article/200010613/gold-mafia-expose-rocks-region">NewsDay</a> quotes him as saying:
<blockquote>
Of utmost interest and importance in the story that has been developing on Al Jazeera, the journalists behind this story are breaking all norms that govern journalistic ethics.
They lack understanding that diplomacy is a very difficult job to do, which is to navigate around the international system to ensure that the countries they represent get the best in the form of international investors.
When you look at the documentary it is personal to ambassador Uebert Angel.
The documentary is a damp squib, which focuses on someone who is not even a civil servant.
Ambassador Angel is allowed to do business and to partner with international observers as they are willingly engaging him within the interest of the people of Zimbabwe.
</blockquote>
He accused the Al Jazeera journalists of trying to jeopardise the investment and engagement efforts since it failed to show Angel holding the gold.
Nxumalo defended Angel ahead of King Mswati III’s arrival in Zimbabwe where he is scheduled to officially open the 63rd edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) in Bulawayo on Friday.
Zambia’s former Foreign Affairs minister Harry Kalaba also made another recording where he said there was nothing amiss with what  Angel was doing as diplomats could do “anything” to woo investors.
Kalaba resigned as Foreign Affairs minister under former President Lungu, citing corruption in the Zambian government. He believes that diplomats have to use their ingenuity to attract investors to their country and there is nothing wrong with their behind-the-scenes actions. He also thinks that Zimbabwe’s situation should be understood from the perspective of the sanctions they are going through and President Mnangagwa should be encouraged instead of being criticized.
Local analysts, however, scoffed at Nxumalo and Kalaba’s attempts to dismiss the revelations by Al Jazeera. Centre for Natural Resource Governance executive director Farai Maguwu said the comments simply reveal the endemic corruption in Africa.
A political analyst named Rejoice Ngwenya said that African governments rely on diplomacy to maintain their current situation. Diplomats are not searched at airports, which allows them to engage in unethical behaviour without consequence. Ngwenya also criticized foreign diplomats for not considering how their actions affect local communities.
Angel, through his lawyer Lovemore Madhuku, claimed that he did nothing wrong as he was taking part in an intelligence operation.
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Eswatini Describes Gold Mafia As A Personal Fight Against Uebert Angel

A British Member of Parliament in the House of Lords, which is the British Upper House of Parliament, has requested that Uebert Angel and Rikki Doolan, who is married to his niece Nicola, be investigated for alleged gold smuggling, money laundering, and corruption.
Lord Jonathan Oates has also demanded that Angel and Doolan’s assets be frozen since they are also UK citizens.
This follows the release of Al Jazeera’s latest investigation, Gold Mafia, which exposed gangs allegedly driving gold smuggling and money laundering worth billions of dollars in Southern Africa.
Angel, who is President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s special envoy and ambassador-at-large to Europe and the Americas, offered to Al Jazeera’s undercover reporters that he could use his diplomatic cover to carry large volumes of dirty cash into Zimbabwe as part of a laundering operation also involving gold smuggling.
Doolan repeatedly told Al Jazeera’s undercover reporters who posed as gangsters that he and Angel would be able to arrange a meeting with President Mnangagwa.
Lord Oates raised the issues during a written questions-for-answers session in the House of Peers at the Pace of Westminster in London. The questions read:
<blockquote>
Lord Oates to ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they will take, if any, to address the allegations of criminal activity made against British citizens in the Al Jazeera documentary, Gold Mafia.
Lord Oates to ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of allegations of corruption and money laundering contained in the Al Jazeera documentary Gold Mafia, and what steps, if any, they will take to freeze assets held in the UK or dependent territories by those who have been (1) alleged to have engaged in, and (2) found guilty of, financial crime.
Lord Oates to ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they will take, if any, to investigate alleged discrepancies in the application that Uebert Angel, Zimbabwe’s Ambassador at Large, made for British citizenship.
Lord Oates to ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of allegations against British citizens made in the Al Jazeera documentary, Gold Mafia; and what steps they will take, if any, to investigate the activities of companies whose named directors are alleged to have been involved in a conspiracy to commit financial crime.
Lord Oates to ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of whether British citizen Uebert Angel should retain diplomatic status as Zimbabwe’s Ambassador at Large.
</blockquote>
In June 2022, Lord Oates criticised the Zimbabwean government for putting the Nyatsime 16 in leg irons, saying it damaged the country’s reputation around the world.
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Gold Mafia: British MP Demands Uebert Angel's Assets Be Frozen

Self-proclaimed prophet Uebert Angel has denied allegations against him in the Al Jazeera Gold Mafia documentary.
Angel, who was appointed Ambassador at Large and Presidential Envoy to Europe and the Americas by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in 2021, said his words and actions filmed by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit), were staged and a classified national intelligence operation.
Addressing journalists in Harare on Friday soon after the final episode of the Gold Mafia documentary titled “Have The King With You”, Angel’s lawyer Lovemore Madhuku, said his client was working with national intelligence.
He said that after Angel was approached by the purported investors, he consulted the national intelligence to do security checks on them and was advised that something suspicious was going on. Madhuku was quoted by <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/uebert-angel-finally-speaks-on-gold-mafia-claims-it-was-all-an-act-a-classified-national-intelligence-operation/">NewZimbabwe.com</a> as saying:
<blockquote>
This interaction led to what we are calling a classified national intelligence assignment which meant a decision was taken with intelligence authorities that he would play along and would not cancel his interactions with these persons, he would meet them as if he was going to make arrangements for them to meet the president and be able to do investments in Zimbabwe.
So it was in the context of a national intelligence operation, Zimbabwe wanted to gain intelligence out of it, and wanted to see how far its enemies could go and what the agendas were.
Ordinarily, these things are not told to the world but because of the intensity and implications of the documentary on the integrity of the operations of governmental systems in this country, my client felt obliged that he has a moral obligation to at least give an indication of what was going on.
</blockquote>
Madhuku also claimed that the purported calls to First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa and Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya as shown in the documentary were made to decoys. He said:
<blockquote>
In that documentary, all the things that are said, no one was phoned, the first lady or Henrietta Rushwaya were decoys that were put in an intelligence operation. So even the statements that you hear are not real.
If you were to put it very boldly or mildly, they were acting along and it’s unfortunate that according to the version we are putting it is unfortunate that it is national security issues that are then played in public because of the agenda of these people which then forces issues that ordinarily would not be put on the table.
</blockquote>
Last month Angel’s office, the Office of Presidential Envoy and Ambassador at Large (OPEAAL), responded to the Al Jazeera documentary and denied that he was involved in money laundering and gold smuggling.
In his press conference on Friday, Madhuku essentially <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/uebert-angels-office-responds-to-al-jazeera-documentary/">repeated what the Chief Investment Officer at OPEAAL Sobona Mtisi said last month</a>. Mtisi’s statement read in part:
<blockquote>
The calls to the decoys were made in light of the leading questions asked by the “investors”.
They kept pushing to have the First Family in the discussion, especially the First Lady and the President.
They even threw in figures to help in the charity organisation which Ambassador Angel refused and even told them he had his own money; this part was omitted from the documentary.
It’s just amazing how people are made to believe what has been propagated as the gospel.
The best these people got are the audios from the decoys, they never got the chance to film the President or the First Lady because the Ambassador was already informed by the security agents prior to getting in the meeting that they didn’t have the money they claimed to have.
</blockquote>
Angel’s assets were recently frozen by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s Financial Intelligence Unit.
Reports suggest Angel is likely to face money laundering charges and allegations of name-dropping.
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Gold Mafia: Uebert Angel Says it Was All An Act, A Classified National Intelligence Operation

Uebert Angel’s lawyer Lovemore Madhuku on Friday told the media that his client had no personal relationship with the First Family.
He was responding to the Gold Mafia documentary, a four-part investigation by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit).
Angel was one of the key figures in the documentary where he allegedly offered to launder cash into the country using his diplomatic status.
During his encounters with the undercover reporters, Angel was secretly recorded boasting about his close relations with Mnangagwa and how much power he wields as a result.
Madhuku said Angel was appointed Zimbabwe’s Ambassador at Large and Presidential Envoy to Europe and the Americas and his relationship with President Emmerson Mnangagwa was that of a superior and subordinate. Madhuku said:
<blockquote>
My client wants to put right across that he has never ever done anything on behalf of the President, no deals or activities on behalf of the President.
His relationship with the President of the Republic ED Mnangagwa is one of superior and subordinate.
My client wants to make it clear that he has no relationship or whatsoever with members of the President’s family, he only has a relationship with the President which is a formal professional relationship.
He wants to tell you that he has never met with the First Lady because his relationship is with the President.
</blockquote>
Lovemore Madhuku also denied that Angel was involved in any criminal activity. He said:
<blockquote>
My client wants it known that he has not been, has never been, and will never be involved in any criminal activities.
He would like it to be stated that he has never been involved in any gold smuggling nor has he ever been engaged in money laundering by whatever name it’s called so the insinuations in the Al Jazeera documentary are only baseless.
He is not on Zimbabwe pay, he is working for the interests of the country at the outset.
As soon as my client was appointed it was made known to the whole world that he will be the President’s ambassador-at-large.
There were several people in Europe and other parts of the world that wanted investments in the country with his facilitation, that is a fact.
</blockquote>
In the fourth installment of “Gold Mafia” titled “Have The King With You” that was premiered on Friday, 14 April 2023, Angel allegedly asked First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa for her help to launder US$1.2 billion.
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Gold Mafia: Lovemore Madhuku Says Uebert Angel's Relationship With Mnangagwa Is Formal

A self-proclaimed prophet, Uebert Angel, who has been exposed as an alleged money launderer and gold smuggler in the “Gold Mafia” documentary by Al Jazeera will respond through his lawyer Lovemore Madhuku.
Angel was appointed Zimbabwe’s Ambassador at Large and Presidential Envoy to Europe and the Americas by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in 2021.
Madhuku has said that he will hold a press conference this Thursday in response to the Al Jazeera documentary.
The press conference will be held the same day Al Jazeera will release the final episode of the four-series documentary.
<a href="https://www.zimmorningpost.com/gold-mafia-ambassador-at-large-eubert-angel-presses-panic-button/">Zim Morning Post</a> reported top government sources as saying Angel is likely to face money laundering charges and allegations of name-dropping. Said the official:
<blockquote>
The authorities are looking into his role in trying to assist those who are laundering money. The law is very clear on this and measures will be taken.
</blockquote>
According to S8(4) of the Money Laundering &amp; Proceeds of Crime Act, “association with or conspiracy to commit, an attempt to commit, and aiding, abetting, facilitating and counselling the commission of money laundering is an offence.”
According to the Al Jazeera documentary, Angel offered undercover reporters who posed as investors that he could use his diplomatic cover to carry large volumes of dirty cash into Zimbabwe as part of a laundering operation also involving gold smuggling.
He repeatedly claimed that Mnangagwa was aware of his schemes, adding:
<blockquote>
I can call the president now, not tomorrow, now and put him on speaker, it’s not an issue. We are the government.
</blockquote>
Angel is the founder and leader of Good News Church, formerly Spirit Embassy, and claims he can heal the sick and predict the outcomes of elections and football matches.
He did not respond to Al Jazeera’s request for a formal comment about the investigation.
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Gold Mafia: Madhuku Comes To Uebert Angel's Defence

ZANU PF politician and gold dealer Pedzisai “Scott” Sakupwanya has been named Zimbabwe’s biggest gold baron by Uebert Angel in a documentary by Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera titled Gold Mafia.
Angel, who is a British-Zimbabwean businessman, was appointed Ambassador at Large to Europe and the Americas by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in 2021.
In a snippet of the fourth and final instalment of Gold Mafia, Angel tells undercover reporters who posed as investors that Sakupawanya is a bigger gold dealer than Ewan MacMillan. He said:
<blockquote>
MacMillan doesn’t control nothing. This (Sakupwanya) was his worker cleaning his car. He is the number one now in Zimbabwe.
</blockquote>
MacMillan, a self-confessed gold smuggler, also features in the Al Jazeera documentary.
Angel also shows the reporters pictures of Sakupwanya flaunting his US$5 million cash and some gold bars on 29 June 2020. He said:
<blockquote>
He’s right there, he’s in his house, sleeping on five million US dollars.
</blockquote>
Sakupwanya is a ZANU PF councillor in Mabvuku and is the ruling party’s aspiring parliamentary candidate for Mabvuku Constituency.
He owns Better Brands Jewellery (BBJ) and other gold dealers operating in Mazowe and Penhalonga.
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Gold Mafia: Scott Sakupwanya Number One Gold Baron In Zim, Says Uebert Angel

Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU) has called for a protest against <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Uebert_Angel">Uebert Angel’s</a>, church in Johannesburg, South Africa. Angel, a preacher and ambassador at large, is facing criticism after he was caught on camera offering to use his diplomatic cover to smuggle cash into Zimbabwe on behalf of journalists posing as criminals. The incident also implicates other politically connected individuals in gold smuggling and money laundering.
Angel, who is responsible for promoting Zimbabwe’s investment opportunities, is believed to be part of a larger gold smuggling cartel in a country <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/transparency-international-zimbabwe-zacc-eexpose-grand-corruption/">ranked among the most corrupt by Transparency International. </a>
ZAPU has decided to increase pressure on Angel, who is based in the UK and has churches in other countries. According to a flyer circulated on social media this week, ZAPU called for the protest at Angel’s church to voice displeasure at the government’s “apparent refusal to act on the scandal.” ZAPU national spokesperson Msongelwa Ndlovu told <a href="https://www.zimlive.com/zapu-leads-call-for-south-africa-protest-against-angel-gold-mafia/">ZimLive</a>:
<blockquote>
The aim of the protest is to express our displeasure with the looting as exposed by the documentary, but more importantly, the arrogance of both the government and those implicated.
</blockquote>
He said they are demanding accountability adding that those implicated must be visited by “requisite consequences including stripping of government responsibility and immediate arrest”.
According to Ndlovu, the government’s response to the Al Jazeera documentary is inadequate. Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa announced that the government has directed “relevant organs” to investigate the issues raised in the documentary, but Ndlovu believes this is “hollow and hopeless.” He argues that Al Jazeera did all the investigative work and that the government should take action based on the video evidence presented in the documentary.
Meanwhile, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/gold-mafia-rbz-has-frozen-uebert-angels-accounts/">frozen Uebert Angel’s accounts</a> and other individuals implicated in the gold smuggling and money laundering operations. Other accounts frozen belong to Kenyan-born Kamlesh Pattni, Ewan McMillan, Simon Rudland, Cleopas Chidodo, David Chirozvi, Mehlululi Dube, and Fredrick Kunaka. Critics say the move is a non-event considering that the gold mafia deals in cash and gold.
Over 16,000 Zimbabweans have signed a petition initiated by UK-based Zimbabwean, Cathy Filipe Tshezi calling on police to arrest Angel and also for the British government to freeze the cleric’s assets.
Angel has made a statement claiming that he deliberately staged the images showing him colluding with criminals to commit offences. According to Angel, state security warned him that the “criminals” may have had different intentions, so he decided to “play along” with their proposal.
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Gold MAFIA: ZAPU Calls For Protest At Uebert Angel's Church In South Africa

The <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Reserve_Bank_of_Zimbabwe">Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)</a> has frozen <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Uebert_Angel">Uebert Angel</a>‘s accounts over alleged gold smuggling, money laundering, bribery, and other corrupt activities. Through the Financial Intelligence Unit, RBZ also froze the accounts of Ewan McMillan, <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/accountant-reveals-how-kamlesh-pattni-is-duping-zimbabwe-gold-mafia/">Kamlesh Pattni</a> and <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/rbz-doesnt-have-money-to-buy-gold-rudland-buys-on-its-behalf-al-jazeera/">Simon Rudland</a> stating that it is taking a strong stance against money laundering and is tracking activities that could expose further money laundering by the alleged gold Mafia.
The “gold mafia” were reported to banks on March 30, listing all their accounts and assets, including balances, <a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/uebert-angel-rudland-accounts-frozen/">The Herald</a> reported citing sources from within the central bank.
Banks were instructed to freeze the accounts and not transfer any funds until investigations are completed by the Financial Intelligence Unit. This directive is effective immediately.
The Al Jazeera documentary – Gold Mafia – captures Uebert Angel offering to use his diplomatic cover to launder large amounts of dirty cash into Zimbabwe, alongside gold smuggling. He repeatedly name-drops the President’s name.
Kenyan-born Kamlesh Pattni is also shown as able to help launder over $100 million. Ewan McMillan and Simon Rudland are portrayed as smugglers, dealing with Fidelity Printers and Refiners to deliver gold bought from small-scale miners to the refinery and then exporting it to Dubai, allegedly providing hard currency for Zimbabwe and laundering millions of dollars.
Other accounts frozen:
The Financial Intelligence Unit also directed banks to freeze the assets of Cleopas Chidodo, David Chirozvi, Mehlululi Dube, and Fredrick Kunaka, as seen in an earlier memo.
Chidodo is the Head of Security at the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe, who was captured in Episode 2 of the documentary detailing how he assists gold smugglers in avoiding detection as they transport their contraband to Dubai via Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport.
Chirozvi is the Head of Finance at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s Aurex Jewellery, while Kunaka is the general manager of Fidelity Printers and Refiners. Kunaka allegedly received a monthly kickback of US$30 000 from the gold mafia, while Dube, associated with Golden Beryl Private Limited, was allegedly paid US$3 000 per month by the gold smuggling syndicate. The four have been aiding criminal elements in smuggling gold and abusing their positions.
Information, Publicity, and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa announced on Monday that the Zimbabwean government was acting on the allegations raised in the Al Jazeera documentary. She said the government had directed relevant organs to investigate the issues raised. The minister emphasized that boastful behaviour and name-dropping by some personalities featured in the documentary should never be taken as an enunciation of government policy.
Meanwhile, some are sceptical that the accounts have been frozen. They believe the announcement is meant to hoodwink the public into believing that action was being taken against the “gold mafia.”
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Gold Mafia: RBZ Has Frozen Uebert Angel's Accounts

Zimbabwean preacher, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Uebert_Angel">Uebert Angel</a> (born <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Uebert_Angel">Hubert Mudzanire</a>) has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa doesn’t take bribes. He made remarks while talking to Al Jazeera’s undercover journalists who posed as money launderers who wanted their dirty money to be cleaned in Zimbabwe. Angel who is portrayed as a gold mafia, tells the journalists that they probably need to pay an “appreciation fee” to meet President Mnangagwa, not bribes.
Angel added that Mnangagwa was donating US$240 million to the ruling party towards the 2023 election campaign. Appearing in the third episode of the four-part Al Jazeera documentary on gold smuggling and money laundering titled Gold Mafia: El Dorado that aired yesterday, Angel said:
<blockquote>
His (Mnangagwa) election, I think they are spending like US$240 million and that is his money.
</blockquote>
Watch the video below for more.
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Angel’s sidekick, Rikki Doolan, a British religious leader and businessperson, claims that all the gold smuggling and money laundering operations are authorised by the president. 
Angel has appeared in all three episodes of the Al Jazeera documentary – Gold Mafia – which allegedly exposes gold smuggling and money laundering operations in Zimbabwe.
In the episodes aired so far, Angel offers to use his diplomatic cover to facilitate gold smuggling and money laundering.
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Uebert Angel Says President Mnangagwa Doesn't Take Bribes

The government of Zimbabwe has said it will punish individuals mentioned in Gold Mafia, an Al Jazeera documentary if they are convicted of gold smuggling and money laundering as stated in the documentary. 
In a statement seen by Pindula News, the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Senator <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Monica_Mutsvangwa">Monica Mutsvangwa</a>, said members of the public will be informed of new developments in due course. Read the statement:
<blockquote>
Government takes note of a documentary titled “Gold Mafia”, currently being serialised by an international broadcasting channel which purports to expose a network of alleged money laundering and gold smuggling in Zimbabwe. 
Government takes the allegations raised in the documentary seriously, and has directed relevant organs to institute investigations into the issues raised therein. Any person found to have engaged in acts of corruption, fraud or any form of crime, will face the full wrath of the law.
Government takes this opportunity to re-affirm its commitment to upholding local and international laws, including laws relating to financial transactions, the trade of gold and other precious minerals. 
Boastful behaviour and name-dropping by some personalities featured in the documentary, seeking personal gain and glory, should never be taken as an enunciation of Government Policy.
Government remains seized with the matter and the nation will be kept apprised of any new developments.
</blockquote>
Al Jazeera released two episodes of the documentary where some interviewees alleged that government officials, such as <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Henrietta_Rushwaya">Henrietta Rushwaya</a>, the president of the Zimbabwe Miners Federation, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Uebert_Angel">Uebert Angel</a>, the president’s envoy to the Americas and Europe, and some ZIMRA officials were involved in gold smuggling and money laundering operations.
It is also alleged that Zimbabwe is losing over US$1 billion per annum through gold smuggling alone.
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Gold Mafia: Government To Punish Criminals

Uebert Angel’s personal assistant, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Rikki_Doolan">Rikki Doolan</a>, has dismissed the Al Jazeera documentary titled “Gold Mafia”, saying it has been edited to portray a false narrative.
The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit identified Doolan as part of an alleged “band of criminals driving gold smuggling and money laundering worth billions of dollars in Southern Africa.”
Doolan, who is a pastor in Angel’s Good News Church and a musician told Al Jazeera’s undercover reporters that he and Angel would be able to arrange a meeting with President Emmerson President Mnangagwa.
During the meetings with the undercover reporters, Doolan said money laundering would not be a challenge “as long as you grease the wheels.”
Responding to the two episodes that have so far been premiered, that is, The Laundry Service and Smoke and Mirrors, Doolan said:
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The documentary circulating right now is brutally edited to portray a false narrative.
I’m not a gold dealer, and I never have been, so what they are pushing is a false narrative.
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Watch the video below for more:
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Al Jazeera Documentary "Brutally Edited" - Rikki Doolan

George Charamba, the presidential spokesperson, has said Uebert Angel remains Zimbabwe’s Ambassador-at-Large and has not been stripped of his ambassadorial status.
Charamba <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/gold-mafia-uebert-angel-loses-ambassadorial-role/">earlier intimated that</a> the self-proclaimed prophet, who was appointed Zimbabwe’s Ambassador at Large and Presidential Envoy to Europe and the Americas in 2021, has lost his role.
He was responding to one Ba’Zuva on Twitter who had asked why “Uebert Angel have his diplomatic status revoked if the Al Jazeera documentary, #GoldMafia was much ado about nothing”. Charamba, using one of his accounts “Tinoedza Zvimwe”. He said:
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Appointment to a diplomatic post means you further the interests and image of the country which appoints you as a representative of the Head of State of that country.
Once your actions run counter to both objectives, you are stripped of that title and all which goes with it.
This basic remedial ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION stands quite apart from any legal action your actions might attract. It is that simple.
You serve at the mercy of the appointing authority for as long he retains trust and confidence in you and in your competence to keep and protect the dignity of the STATE! Understood?
</blockquote>
But in <a href="https://twitter.com/Tinoedzazvimwe1/status/1641728237070962689">another Twitter post</a> later on Friday, Charamba, using the same Twitter handle “Tinoedza Zvimwe”, said:
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CLARIFYING ON THE STATUS OF AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE HUBERT ANGEL:
Following claims circulating in social media that Zimbabwe’s Ambassador-at-Large, Ambassador Hubert Angel has been stripped of his ambassadorial status, kindly be advised that His Excellency the President, Dr. ED who is the sole appointing authority of all Ambassadors representing the State of Zimbabwe, HAS NOT TAKEN SUCH A STEP.
The Ambassador-at-Large remains in that status and executes all his duties as outlined at the time of his appointment. Please be so advised.
</blockquote>
Angel was recently exposed by undercover Al Jazeera journalists allegedly offering to launder US$1.2 billion using his diplomatic cover.
In the first episode of the Al Jazeera documentary, titled “Gold Mafia: The Laundry Service”, Angel is seen calling Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya in the presence of the undercover reporters.
Angel made the calls in an attempt to convince the “investors” that he was able to facilitate the laundering of more than a billion US dollars in cash.
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Uebert Angel Remains Zimbabwe’s Ambassador-at-Large - George Charamba

Uebert Angel has allegedly been stripped of his diplomatic status as Zimbabwe’s Ambassador at Large and Presidential Envoy to Europe and the Americas.
The ambassadorial role came with the responsibility for Angel to seek trade and investment opportunities for the country of Zimbabwe.
However, Angel was recently exposed by undercover Al Jazeera journalists offering to launder US$1.2 billion using his diplomatic cover.
In the first episode of the Al Jazeera documentary, titled “Gold Mafia: The Laundry Service”, Angel is seen calling Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya in the presence of the undercover reporters.
Angel made the calls in an attempt to convince the “investors” that he was able to facilitate the laundering of more than a billion US dollars in cash.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson George Charamba seemed to confirm that Angel has been stripped of his diplomatic status.
He was responding to one Ba’Zuva on Twitter after he asked why “Uebert Angel have his diplomatic status revoked if the Al Jazeera documentary, #GoldMafia was much ado about nothing”, Charamba, using one of his accounts “Tinoedza Zvimwe”.
Charamba said the revocation of diplomatic status is “administrative” and hinted that there could be legal consequences for Angel. He said:
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Appointment to a diplomatic post means you further the interests and image of the country which appoints you as a representative of the Head of State of that country.
Once your actions run counter to both objectives, you are stripped of that title and all which goes with it.
This basic remedial ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION stands quite apart from any legal action your actions might attract. It is that simple.
You serve at the mercy of the appointing authority for as long he retains trust and confidence in you and in your competence to keep and protect the dignity of the STATE! Understood?
</blockquote>
Last week, Angel’s office said during his interactions with the Al Jazeera crew, he suspected that they were not genuine and decided to use “decoys”.
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Gold Mafia: Uebert Angel Loses Ambassadorial Role

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been named in the Al Jazeera documentary as one of the Zimbabwean authorities enabling the gold smuggling operations by offering protection to “the Gold Mafia.”
Episode 2 of Gold Mafia, Al Jazeera’s documentary on corruption and money laundering in Zimbabwe which was released this Thursday reports that smugglers use South African banks to launder money.
Watch the video below for more.
https://www.ajiunit.com/investigation/gold-mafia-smuggle-zimbabwe-rudland-macmillan-pattni/
<a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Simon_Rudland">Simon Rudland</a> who owns Gold Leaf Tobacco allegedly smuggles cigarettes to South Africa and then uses the illegally attained money to export Zimbabwean gold – it becomes clean.
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Al Jazeera Ep2: President Mnangagwa Implicated In Gold Smuggling Operations

The government of Zimbabwe has been urged to withdraw trade licences from gold dealers implicated in an Al Jazeera documentary on the illicit trade of the precious mineral.
<a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Transparency_International_Zimbabwe">Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ)</a>, a non-profit local chapter of the international movement against corruption, said it was closely following the Aljazeera expose and is demanding that the government launches investigations into the cases. NewsDay cites TIZ as saying:
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Law enforcement, anti-corruption agencies and regulatory authorities should immediately revoke gold trade and export licences given to the implicated individuals and corporations, pending an investigation into the allegations.
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Episode 01 of Al Jazeera’s documentary – Gold Mafia – was released last week, episode 02 is expected this Thursday.
In the documentary, Tendai Biti, a former Minister of Finance and Economic Development, claimed that Zimbabwe was losing gold worth about US$1.2 billion every year.
The documentary implicates a number of government institutions including the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)’s Fidelity Printers and Refineries.
Individuals implicated in gold smuggling operations include:
1). Henrietta Rushwaya, the president of the Zimbabwe Miners Federation. She is also a gold dealer licensed to buy and export gold.
2). Uebert Angel, the presidential envoy to the Americas and Europe. He engages potential gold buyers and links them with Zimbabwean authorities including Henrietta Rushwaya.
3). Simon Rudland owns Gold Leaf Tobacco. He allegedly lends the RBZ money to buy gold from miners and export it.
3). Lamkesh Pattni, exports gold bars and jewellery from Zimbabwe through his company Suzan General Trading, which gets paid an incentive by the government to sell gold overseas. He allegedly not bringing all the proceeds from gold sales to Zimbabwe. 
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Zimbabwe Government Urged To Withdraw Licences From Gold Dealers In Al Jazeera Documentary

First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa and her son Emmerson Junior will most likely feature in Al Jazeera’s “Gold Mafia” documentary, with three out of four episodes yet to be premiered, it has emerged.
This was revealed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Ambassador At Large Uebert Angel in a statement released on Saturday as his office tried to clear his name after undercover Al Jazeera journalists showed him offering to launder US$1.2 billion boasting that he was the second-most-powerful person in Zimbabwe.
In the first episode of the documentary, titled “The Laundry Service”, Angel is seen calling Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya in the presence of the undercover reporters.
Angel made the calls in an attempt to convince the “investors” that he was able to facilitate the laundering of more than a billion US dollars in cash.
However, in a statement on Saturday, Angel’s office said during his interactions with the Al Jazeera crew, he suspected that they were not genuine and decided to use “decoys”.
Angel inadvertently revealed that the President’s wife and son will feature in the documentary when he said “these decoys… posed as Henrietta Rushwaya, the First Lady and the First Son”.
A statement released on his behalf by the Chief Investment Officer in the Office of Presidential Envoy and Ambassador at Large (OPEAAL), Sobona Mtisi, read in part:
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After these suspicions, the team switched to ‘red’ protocol, with the decision to proceed with extreme caution, be in the middle, and play along, and never to facilitate a meeting between the “investors” and the His Excellency, the President.
With this knowledge, and at the insistence of the “investors” Ambassador Angel made several calls to decoys working with our office.
It is these decoys who posed as Henrietta Rushwaya, the First Lady, and the First Son.
The calls to the decoys were made in light of the leading questions asked by the “investors”.
They kept pushing to have the First Family in the discussion, especially the First Lady and the President.
They even threw in figures to help in the charity organisation which Ambassador Angel refused and even told them he had his own money; this part was omitted from the documentary.
It’s just amazing how people are made to believe what has been propagated as gospel.
The best these people got are the audios from the decoys, they never got the chance to film the President or the First Lady because the Ambassador was already informed by the security agents prior to getting in the meeting that they didn’t have the money they claimed to have.
However, as aforementioned, we battled with what if the intelligence is wrong and the country loses the much-needed investment.
The decoys helped in asserting that if they were real investors, we would be able to get it from their reactions after the call.
There is no way Ambassador Angel could get hold of the First Lady and First Son without pre-arrangements and standard security clearance procedures in place in meeting with the First Family.
Moreover, the Ambassador has never met the First Lady. They never met and never had any direct dealings.
It would have been prudent for these “investors” to verify if the calls were indeed made to the people that Ambassador claimed to be calling.
</blockquote>
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Uebert Angel Reveals First Family Features In Al Jazeera documentary

<a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Uebert_Angel">Hubert Mudzanire</a> alias <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Uebert_Angel">Uebert Angel</a>, the founder of the Spirit Embassy, The Good News Church, has said he has the authority to sign deals and treaties with other countries on behalf of Zimbabwe without consulting President Mnangagwa.
On 17 March 2021, Uebert Angel was appointed Presidential Envoy and Ambassador at Large for Europe and the Americas. Angel was appointed to seek trade and investment opportunities.
In an <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/watch-episode-01-of-al-jazeeras-gold-mafia/">Al Jazeera documentary – Gold Mafia</a> – which is an expose on corruption and looting in the mining sector, Angel said as a plenipotentiary, he has full authorisation to sign a treaty or convention on behalf of President Mnangagwa.
He made the remarks while talking to a delegation of one Mr Stanley, an undercover Al Jazeera reporter who was investigating illicit financial flows in Zimbabwe.
His remarks were meant to assure Mr Stanley that his word was binding.
Mr Stanley pretended to have huge sums of dirty money which he needed to be cleaned. 
Angel said it was possible as he had signed such deals before.
He then called Henrietta Rushwaya, President Mnangagwa’s niece and President of the Zimbabwe Mining Federation.
<a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/rushwaya-cleans-us5-million-dirty-money-weekly-al-jazeera/">Rushwaya agreed</a> and offered to sell 100kgs of gold at a 4% per cent discount.
If Mr Stanley wanted to clean US$10 million, he would pay US$5 to Fidelity Printers and Refineries, a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.
Fidelity would keep the money for the duration of the relationship between Zimbabwe and Mr Stanley. The remaining US$5 million would be used to buy gold.
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Uebert Angel Says He Can Sign Treaties With Other Countries Without Consulting The President

Spirit Embassy founder, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Uebert_Angel">Hubert Mudzanire</a> alias <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Uebert_Angel">Uebert Angel</a> has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa will be in power until he dies.
He made the remarks while meeting Al Jazeera’s undercover reporters who posed as gangsters with up to a billion dollars of black money that need to be cleaned. He told the undercover reporters:
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Let me just say don’t worry about the President. Don’t worry about him. This president will be president until he dies.
</blockquote>
Angel was allegedly meeting the undercover reporters for money laundering.
Angel who is the presidential envoy to the Americas and Europe is seen in <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/watch-episode-01-of-al-jazeeras-gold-mafia/">Episode 01 of Al Jazeera’s documentary titled Gold Mafia</a> released this Thursday. 
He appears as laundering money on behalf of the president who gave him absolute power to make treaties with other countries without even getting the president involved.
Uebert Angel makes the ‘prophecy’ that Mnangagwa will be president until he dies when Zimbabwe is preparing to hold harmonised elections scheduled for July this year.
In Zimbabwe, religion and politics are strongly connected. The ruling party, ZANU-PF, has used religion to gain support and legitimacy, while some religious leaders have spoken out against political oppression and corruption.
However, the relationship between religion and politics is not always clear-cut, with accusations of collusion and exploitation on both sides.
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Mnangagwa Will Be President Till He Dies - Uebert Angel

The <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Insurance_and_Pensions_Commission">Insurance and Pensions Commission (IPEC)</a> has written to insurance companies asking for information on <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/zimbabwean-gold-dealer-says-chiwenga-is-a-dunderhead/">Ewan Macmillan</a> and <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Uebert_Angel">Uebert Angel.</a>
 This was after the duo appeared in snippets of a yet-to-be-released <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Aljazeera_2023_Zimbabwe_Corruption_Documentary">Al Jazeera documentary on corruption and looting</a> in Zimbabwe. 
In a letter seen by Pindula News, IPEC asked for information on Macmillan and Angel’s insurance products and insured assets held or disposed of. Reads the letter:
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<h2>FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON: EWAN MACMILLAN AND UEBERT MUDZANIRE alias UEBERT ANGEL</h2>
1. The Insurance and Pensions Commission (the Commission) is required in terms of the Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime Act [Chapler 9:24] to coordinate with Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in the assessment of the money laundering and terrorist financing risks to which the country is exposed. 
2. Pursuant to the above, we are in receipt of an urgent communication from the FIU requesting all industry players to assist with information on: 
(i) insurance products: 
(ii) insured assets held or disposed, 
by the above-mentioned individuals directly, or indirectly through companies or trusts during the period 1 January 2020 and 21 March 2023.
3. You are therefore required to submit your responses to (email addresses removed) within the next 48 hours, latest by mid-day Thursday 23 March 2023. 
4. The information being requested is confidential, in terms of section 31 of the MLPC Act and therefore should be regarded as such. 
5. Your usual cooperation will be greatly appreciated.
Yours sincerely, 
Grace Muradzikwa 
COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE, PENSION AND PROVIDENT FUNDS
</blockquote>
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IPEC Requests Information On Ewan Macmillan And Uebert Angel

<a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Uebert_Angel">Uebert Angel</a>, the founder and leader of Spirit Embassy, The Good News Church, is now paying tuition fees to over 1 000 students at the country’s various institutions of higher learning.
Angel, born <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Uebert_Angel">Hubert Mudzanire</a>, is the Presidential Envoy and Ambassador at Large to Europe and the Americas (OPEAAL).
The Herald reports that the scholarship, which targets students at tertiary institutions from disadvantaged backgrounds, is an apolitical facility that has been welcomed by students across the country.
In a statement, the (OPEAAL) said Angel is sponsoring “from his own pocket without recourse to public or Government funds, was founded in honour of President Mnangagwa. Further reads the statement:
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It is built on the recommendations of HE President Mnangagwa’s principle to assist all Zimbabweans regardless of their political affiliations. The initiative is aiming at paying tuition for 10 000 Universities and college students.
</blockquote>
The NUST Vice-Chancellor Prof Dlodlo expressed utmost appreciation for such an initiative after 50 students benefited from such initiative.
The Principal of Gweru Poly Mr Chandiwana also praised President Mnangagwa for assisting students. 
Angel’s donations have, however, divided the nation, with critics saying those students could be paying fees for themselves in a functional economy.
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