nt, according to a Riggs Bank employee quoted by the Johannesburg-based Washing Line news agency.
The Zimbabwean government allegedly used the money to go towards settling its outstanding debt with the International Monetary Fund [IMF] in December last year.
New Zimbabwe.com reports that George Charamba, Mugabe’s press secretary, insisted the allegations were nonsense. “We are a very proud people and we will never depend on handouts. Because we have managed to pay the IMF, people then think we got it from a Father Christmas.”
He said Zimbabwe would never have accepted a ‘thank you’ from the Equatorial Guinea government in a monetary form.
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US$10m ‘thank you’ for Mugabe
HARARE - The government of Equatorial Guinea has paid President Robert Mugabe US$10 million as personal thank you for foiling the attempted coup against it by arresting mercenaries at Harare airport en route to the oil-rich African state.
A further US$10 million was paid to the Zimbabwe governme
A further US$10 million was paid to the Zimbabwe governme