Bonyongwe defends Mugabe’s dodgy partner

FORMER Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) director-general Happyton Bonyongwe yesterday defended jailed Chinese businessman Sam Pa as the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy intensified its probe into the missing $15 million diamond revenue.

Pa, also known as Xu Jinghua, is regarded as an international “business fixer” and was arrested on October 8, 2015 and has been in jail ever since.

In Zimbabwe, he stands accused of funnelling “dirty money” into former President Robert Mugabe’s then “discredited regime” when he entered into a joint diamond mining deal with the CIO.

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