{"id":174127,"date":"2024-06-08T18:51:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T16:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwes-central-intelligence-organisation-has-secret-stream-of-money-latest-sentry-expose-reveals\/"},"modified":"2024-06-08T18:51:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T16:51:19","slug":"zimbabwes-central-intelligence-organisation-has-secret-stream-of-money-latest-sentry-expose-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwes-central-intelligence-organisation-has-secret-stream-of-money-latest-sentry-expose-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe&#8217;s Central Intelligence Organisation Has Secret Stream of Money &#8211; Latest Sentry Expos\u00e8 Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">AN investigation by the internationally acclaimed unit, The Sentry has revealed that Zimbabwe&#8217;s Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) owns and controls a vast but secret business empire for extra income.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The empire includes companies involved in tourism, coal mining and farming of hemp, a cannabis plant grown mainly for fabric manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Two of the companies named in The Sentry report were recently awarded coal mining concessions in the Kariba basin covering 50,000 hectares.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The spy agency&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406070176.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN investigation by the internationally acclaimed unit, The Sentry has revealed that Zimbabwe&#8217;s Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) owns and controls a vast but secret business empire for extra income. The empire includes companies involved in tourism, coal mining and farming of hemp, a cannabis plant grown mainly for fabric manufacturing. Two of the companies named [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,5934,6957,12118,5037,5108,257,12071,14326,6860,48725,254,39361,421,7726],"class_list":["post-174127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-central","tag-expose","tag-intelligence","tag-latest","tag-money","tag-news","tag-organisation","tag-reveals","tag-secret","tag-sentry","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stream","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}