Smuggling doccie gives new, darker meaning to the idea of ‘prosperity gospel’.
There are so many elements to the Zimbabwe-South Africa gold-smuggling, money-laundering scandal exposed by Al Jazeera that it is difficult to know where to begin.
Mo, the Al Jazeera story goes, has — or had — a network of compliant insiders at Sasfin, Absa and Standard Bank who would do such stuff as sign off paperwork on fake accounts, erase suspicious transactions from bank computer systems and otherwise fail to ask any questions about certain transactions.
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