Zimbabwe: Central Bank’s Financial Intelligence Unit Officials Arrested Over U.S.$2,500 Extortion

Two officials from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) have been arrested on allegations of extorting US$2,500 from a Bulawayo businessman, promising to facilitate the unfreezing of his bank accounts.

The two are Tonderai Makoni and Wisdom Mutami.

According to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC), which arrested the two, their alleged accomplice, Clemence Nyamima, is still at large.

“The two accused persons, acting in common purpose with a third accomplice,…