The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) said they
have so far identified US$7 billion in cash and properties worldwide stashed by
former and current senior Government officials as it intensifies its efforts to
recover ill-gotten wealth from the country.
Workshop facilitator Mr Jonathan Benton address guests
during the asset recovery workshop in Harare yesterday.
Zacc chairperson Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo said some of
the properties and cash are stashed in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, United
States of America, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mauritius and Spain, among
others.
She revealed this during an interview with The Herald on
the side-lines of a three-day workshop on asset recovery currently underway in
Harare. The workshop is sponsored by the World Bank and the United Nations
Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Justice Matanda-Moyo said they will soon initiate the
process of repatriating the monies back once the paper work is in order.
“Informally, we have now identified US$7 billion cash and
property all over the world which were siphoned by our former and current
leaders including private individuals. We got this information informally. So,
now we have to formalise the process so that we start the processes of
repatriating the monies back home.
“The purpose of this training is to equip our officers in
the techniques of repatriation of stolen funds back home. This workshop is
sponsored by the World Bank and UNODC from the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative
(STAR).
“They are teaching us on the various jurisdictions and how
we can interact with officials from those various jurisdictions, who we can
engage and who we can actually work with in order to ensure that all those
monies are repatriated back to Zimbabwe,” she said.
Officials from the Zacc, Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP),
Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra), National Prosecuting Authority (NPA),
Department of Immigration, the Financial Intelligence Unit and the Special
Anti-Corruption Unit are attending the training workshop. Herald
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