Notorious British criminal and millionaire slum landlord Nicholas van Hoogstraten is bankrolling Mugabe’s ruthless wife ‘Gucci Grace’ to be the world’s first female dictator.
Notorious for her foreign shopping sprees and obsession with Ferragamo shoes, Grace Mugabe has long been a figure of derision in Zimbabwe.
Now the 49-year-old – known as ‘Disgrace,’ ‘Gucci Grace’ or the ‘First Shopper’ – is launching an astonishing bid to become the world’s first female dictator – backed with millions in cash from a deeply unsavoury British millionaire.
Grace, who has hitherto only been interested in sex, shoes and shopping after Mugabe plucked her from the presidential typing pool, is being secretly bankrolled by Nicholas van Hoogstraten, the British slum landlord who fled to Zimbabwe in 2007.
Secret documents obtained by MailOnline – compiled by Mugabe’s intelligence chiefs, who carry out surveillance on all those close to the president – claim that Hoogstraten is paying millions to Grace to help fund her campaign.
Hoogstraten, one of the largest landowners in Zimbabwe, where he lives in a hotel with a rotating cast of female guests, is named in the documents as giving $62m to bankroll Grace’s presidential bid…
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