Zimbabwe’s looting machine: Cartels, Smugglers, Stealing Country’s Wealth
In early February 2021, South Africa’s Maverick Citizen published an explosive report, Cartel Power Dynamics, which dug deeper into Zimbabwe’s web of looting, illicit cross-border financial transactions by cartels causing devastating effects to the country’s economy. As Tom Burgis observed in his 2015 book, The Looting Machine, “Africa’s troves...