{"id":203384,"date":"2025-07-27T14:50:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T12:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-central-banks-financial-intelligence-unit-officials-arrested-over-u-s-2500-extortion\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T14:50:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T12:50:26","slug":"zimbabwe-central-banks-financial-intelligence-unit-officials-arrested-over-u-s-2500-extortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-central-banks-financial-intelligence-unit-officials-arrested-over-u-s-2500-extortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Central Bank&#8217;s Financial Intelligence Unit Officials Arrested Over U.S.$2,500 Extortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Two officials from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">The two are Tonderai Makoni and Wisdom Mutami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">According to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC), which arrested the two, their alleged accomplice, Clemence Nyamima, is still at large.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">&#8220;The two accused persons, acting in common purpose with a third accomplice,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507250172.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>Two officials from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe&#8217;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, [&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":[258,256,4304,6865,5934,8735,5063,12118,257,6651,254,51971,13013,4686,421],"class_list":["post-203384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-banks","tag-central","tag-extortion","tag-financial","tag-intelligence","tag-news","tag-officials","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-2500","tag-unit","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203384","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=203384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203384\/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=203384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}