Illegal currency dealers using the WhatsApp platform to
advertise their trade risk having their mobile lines barred and accounts
frozen, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s Financial Intelligence Unit warned
yesterday.
The unit said in a statement that it was going to clampdown
on such people and was working with the appropriate authorities to do so.
“The FIU, in collaboration with the police, banks, mobile
money-mobile phone service providers and relevant regulatory agencies has
embarked on an exercise to identify and take action against individuals who
create, advertise on or participate (actively or passively) in WhatsApp groups
or other platforms for illegal foreign currency trading,” said the unit.
It said apart from barring the numbers and freezing the
accounts of such people, they would also be investigated and prosecuted for
illegally trading in or advertising illegal trading in foreign currency.
The unit urged people with information on such individuals
to report them.
The warning comes after President Mnangagwa last week told
the 340th ordinary session of the Zanu PF Politburo that Government was going
to fight economic saboteurs.
“On the economic front, we are witnessing a relentless
attack on our currency and the economy in general through exorbitant pricing
models,” he said.
“We are fully cognisant that this is a battle being fuelled
by our political detractors, elite opportunists and malcontents who are bent on
pushing a nefarious agenda.” Herald
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