Over 140 entities and individuals have also been fined.
Financial Intelligence Unit director-general Mr Oliver
Chiperesa told the Sunday Mail that : “Frozen bank accounts from January 1 to June 7
stand at 522. The reasons for freezing include traders found to be manipulating
exchange rates, as well as where our routine transaction monitoring and
analysis identifies bank accounts that are being misused for illegal foreign
currency trading.”
Mr Chiperesa said “patterns that are inconsistent with
normal shopping behaviour” are also being flagged. “The latter category also
includes accounts that are linked to bank cards that are being repeatedly used
to make purchases from shops in patterns that are inconsistent with normal
shopping behaviour,” he added.
“These are cards used by middlemen, who accost customers in
and outside shops, asking the customers to use the ZiG cards to make their
purchases while they give the middleman the agreed US dollar equivalent.”
Chigananda Chigananda 
