By RFIPosted on 04-12-2019Modified on 04-12-2019 at 04:22
Ten million dollars in cash, four houses, ten cars and three properties in the Zimbabwean countryside. It is officially what remains of the assets of the former president of Zimbabwe, who died in September. But doubt persists about the veracity of this heritage.
The Mugabe family had until Thursday to declare and register the properties of the former strongman of the country before the High Court of Harare. Mugabe has ruled for 37 years and there are many rumors about the extent of his wealth while the country is experiencing hyperinflation and starvation.
The fortune of Robert Mugabe has always fantasized since the early 2000s and a diplomatic telegram American valued at 1.7 billion dollars.
Mugabe was best known for his Blue Roof home in the capital Harare, a 25-room palace with a private zoo and an integrated radar system. House whose former party Zanu-PF claims to own.
Doubt persists about the extent of his assets. " We can not trust this statement, " slice specialist Piers Pigou, for whom opacity at the head of Zimbabwe will never know the entire legacy of Mugabe.
Doubt reinforced last week when President Emmerson Mnangagwa assured that Robert Mugabe owned 23 farms. Most would have been transferred to the account of his children in late October, information confirmed by a family member in the press.
For trade unionist Makomberero Hazurivishe, it is abroad that we must look, in this case apartments Mugabe in Dubai, Johannesburg and Singapore, where he died three months ago.
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