{"id":77961,"date":"2023-05-17T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/parly-underfire-mudenda-makes-a-u-turn-on-gold-mafia-investigations"},"modified":"2023-05-18T00:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T22:09:52","slug":"parly-underfire-mudenda-makes-a-u-turn-on-gold-mafia-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/parly-underfire-mudenda-makes-a-u-turn-on-gold-mafia-investigations","title":{"rendered":"PARLY: Underfire Mudenda makes a u-turn on Gold Mafia investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span><b>RELATED:<\/b> &#8211; <b>By Darlington Gatsi<\/b><\/p>\n<p>SPEAKER of Parliament Jacob Mudenda has backtracked on his earlier stance halting a parliamentary investigation into allegations of illicit financial flows by a web of politically linked individuals exposed in the Al Jazeera Gold Mafia documentary.<\/p>\n<p>Mudenda attracted fierce criticism after releasing a memo that Parliament will not be proceeding with investigations into gold smuggling and money laundering into the fingered individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Using undercover reporters, Al Jazeera captured on camera individuals including Ambassador-at-Large Uebert Angel, businessman Simon Rudland, Kamlesh Pattni unravelling how they smuggle minerals out of the country in the process prejudicing the country of billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The four part docu-series also brought to the fore how state institutions like Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and Fidelity printers are used to clean dirty money by the cartels.<\/p>\n<p>The revelations pressured the government and other institutions to open investigations into the implicated individuals.<\/p>\n<p>However an earlier memo from Mudenda said the investigations into the allegations would require extra-terrestrial visits and thus a major stumbling block into the probe.<\/p>\n<p>Days after RBZ\u2019s Financial Intelligent Unit lifted an assets freeze on the implicated individuals in what has been widely interpreted as yet another \u2018catch and release\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Parliament, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy president Tendai Biti took Parliament to task over the cancellation of investigations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw a notice that purported to be coming from the speaker saying those investigations by the relevant portfolio committees are being stopped because the matter is pending before the courts but as a matter of fact there\u2019s no matter that is pending before the court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you have the power to reverse decisions made in this august house in plenary?\u201d quizzed Biti.<\/p>\n<p>The matter resurfaced during a plenary session Wednesday through CCC legislator Innocent Gonese.<\/p>\n<p>Mudenda, in response said Parliamentary committees were not barred from probing Al Jazeera allegations referring legislators to a local daily paper for further information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo committee was barred and committees will exercise their oversight. You can read the statement in the Daily News,\u201d said Mudenda.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. RELATED: &#8211; By Darlington Gatsi SPEAKER of Parliament Jacob Mudenda has backtracked on his earlier stance halting a parliamentary investigation into allegations of illicit financial flows by a web of politically linked individuals exposed in the Al Jazeera Gold Mafia documentary. Mudenda attracted fierce criticism after releasing a memo that Parliament will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":77960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[1493,2189,19],"class_list":["post-77961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","tag-zimbabwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PARLY: Underfire Mudenda makes a u-turn on Gold Mafia investigations - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"RELATED: - By Darlington Gatsi SPEAKER of Parliament Jacob Mudenda has backtracked on his earlier stance ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/parly-underfire-mudenda-makes-a-u-turn-on-gold-mafia-investigations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PARLY: Underfire Mudenda makes a u-turn on Gold Mafia investigations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"RELATED: - 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