Uebert Angel Implicated in Gold Smuggling

Uebert Angel implicated in gold smuggling following a documentary into gold smuggling and money laundering by Al Jazeera Investigative Unit.

The Zimbabwean influential diplomat and founder of Spirit Embassy Church has “offered to use his status to launder millions of dollars through a gold-smuggling scheme,” reports  Al Jazeera, in a March 23 statement. It further announced this was discovered “during an undercover operation by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit.”

Angel said, according to Al Jazeera, he “would facilitate a scheme through which unaccounted cash could be exchanged for Zimbabwe’s gold. Recipients of the gold could then sell the precious metal for legitimate money, effectively turning their cash clean.”

Al Jazeera quoted Angel said to its reporters during the investigation: “You want gold. Gold, we can do it right now. We can make the call right now, and it’s done. It will land in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe can’t touch it too until I get to my house. So, there can be a diplomatic plan. So, it is a very, very easy thing.”

Zimbabwean president, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa who appointed Angel as a special envoy and ambassador-at-large to Europe and the Americas in 2021, approved the laundering operation according to Uebert Angel and Rikki Doolan his business partner.

“I can call the president now, not tomorrow, now and put him on the speaker; it’s not an issue. We are the government,” Angel said to the Al Jazeera investigators.

Following the documentary revelation, former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Monetary Policy Committee member, Eddie Cross, confirmed to Al Jazeera that Angel “has been stripped of his diplomatic status.”  He “has been stripped of his diplomatic passport. In fact, he has had his passport removed from him and the President has stripped him of all status.” He added also that Angel “might in fact face jail time.”

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