In the early hours of 28 March properties linked to oligarch and kingmaker Kudakwashe Tagwirei former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor and Mutapa Investment Fund chair John Mangudya and Chivayo were targeted by arsonists...
THE IRRESISTIBLE RISE OF KUDAKWASHE TAGWIREI A key beneficiary of the infighting in the ruling party is Kudakwashe Tagwirei a quintessential oligarch and close ally of the Mnangagwa family...
Financial power remains within the Mnangagwa camp through the business ventures of the president his sons and his acolytes and deals with mogul Kudakwashe Tagwirei (AC Vol 65 No 15 Concerns multiply over Mnangagwa's secretive wealth fund)...
The contractors include Exodus and Company who were instructed to stop work on the Harare-Chirundu highway to prioritise the SADC rehabilitation as well as Fossil Contracting Oligarch Kuda Tagwirei's company which was placed under United States' sanctions in 2022...
It has emerged that Mnangagwa and his business partner Kudakwashe Tagwirei both under United States sanctions for grand corruption have been central to the design and construction of the MIF and its obsessively secretive operations (AC Vol 65 No 9 Washington targets Mnangagwa for rights abuses and corruption but sends mixed messages)...
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A leading financier and beneficiary of the ZANU-PF regime Kudakwashe Tagwirei his wife Sandra Mpunga and his business partner Obey Chimuka are all included...
This account is held at CBZ a bank with close links to ZANU-PF where the majority share is held by an oligarch close to Mnangagwa Kudakwashe Tagwirei...
These parastatals include: Kuvimba Mining House – the body linked to mogul Kudakwashe Tagwirei that is currently staking out Zimbabwe's potential future lithium wealth; Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) – the bus company that has had a monopoly on public transport since the police took privately-owned commuter omnibuses off the roads; Hwange Colliery at the centre of multiple corruption cases including the 'loss' of millions of dollars intended for refurbishment under the management of now-Minister of Local Government Winston Chitando; State-owned companies managing energy transport agriculture industry and communications...
And Mangudya Reserve Bank governor since 2014 is accused of running it as a black box allocating foreign exchange at favourable rates to regime-linked businessmen such as Kudakwashe Tagwirei...
Africa Confidential here reveals how Chipango and another financial proxy for Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) leaders Kudakwashe Tagwirei keep popping up in multi-million dollar mining deals involving the military...
The scheme was run by Sakunda Holdings owned by Kudakwashe Tagwirei reportedly a former business partner of Simba's brother Derrick Chikore in the Dema diesel plant project (AC Vol 58 No 4 ZANU-PF digs for votes)...
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The state shares are held by a number of parastatals and government companies among them Datvest Nominees an asset management division of the Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe (CBZ) which is allegedly owned by the economic kingpin of Zimbabwe's dodgy deals Kudakwashe Tagwirei (AC Vol 63 No 7 Sanctioned mogul adds steel to portfolio)...
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