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By FRANCIS
OGBONNA
President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe, as part of
his ‘Operation Restore Legacy’ drive has asked his countrymen and businesses within
the country that illegally starched funds abroad to return them within three
months.
Mnangagwa had promised that if the affected individuals
comply within this grace period, they will escape persecution. The new helmsman,
who declared this in an official statement released from his office, defined this
arrangement as an ‘amnesty’.
Here is a copy of the statement:
GRANTING
OF A THREE-MONTH AMNESTY FOR THE RETURN OF ILLEGALLY EXTERNALISED FUNDS AND
ASSETS
Activities
linked to Operation Restore Legacy have, among other issues, helped to uncover
cases where huge turns of money and other assets were illegally externalised by
certain individuals and corporates. Needless to say, such malpractices
constitute a very serious economic crime against the People of Zimbabwe which
the Government of Zimbabwe will never condone.
As a
first step towards the recovery of the illegally externalised funds and assets,
the Government of Zimbabwe is gazetting a three-month moratorium within which
those involved in the malpractice can bring back the funds and assets, with no
questions being asked or charges preferred against them. The period of this
amnesty stretches from 1 December 2017, to the end of February 2018. Affected persons
who wish to comply with this directive should liaise with the Reserve Bank of
Zimbabwe for necessary facilitation and accounting.
Upon the
expiry of the three-month window, Government will proceed to effect arrest of
all those who would not have complied with this directive, and will ensure that
they arc prosecuted in terms of the country, laws. Those affected are thus
encouraged to take advantage of the three-month moratorium to return the
illegally externalised funds and assets in order to avoid the pain and ignominy
of being visited by the long arm of the law.
Emmerson Mnangagwa
President of Zimbabwe
28 November 2017
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