Mugabe's new home in Hong Kong.
I received this in an e-mail. I don't have proof, but I don't feel the person who sent it to me has any reason to make it up either. I'm just putting it out here for anyone who's interested. Take it or leave it.
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Found: Robert Mugabe’s secret bolthole in the Far East
Jon Swain, Bangkok and Michael Sheridan, Hong Kong
ZIMBABWE’S President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace have secretly bought a £4m bolt-hole in the Far East while his country struggles with hyper-inflation, mass unemployment and a cholera epidemic.
The Mugabes’ house, in an exclusive residential complex in Hong Kong, was purchased on their behalf by a middleman through a shadowy company whose registered office is in a run-down tenement block. When a reporter and a photographer called at the house last week, they were attacked by the Zimbabwean occupants. The assailants were questioned by the police.
The property came to light during a Sunday Times investigation into the Mugabes’ financial interests in Asia, where a web of associates has helped them to spend lavishly on luxuries and stash away millions in bank accounts. In Zimbabwe, meanwhile, inflation has reached 231m%, unemployment stands at 94% and 3,467 people have died in recent months from cholera.
According to sources in Zimbabwe and Asia, Grace Mugabe has splashed out £55,500 on marble statues in Vietnam and £8,700 on a handbag in Singapore. She and her husband have enjoyed some of the region’s finest hotels
In Hong Kong, where she has discussed a venture to have Zimbabwean diamonds cut and polished in China, her aides paid one hotel bill with a bag of cash containing £10,500.
The Hong Kong house is the first in the Far East to be identified as the Mugabes’. Last Friday two men and a woman objected violently to the arrival of this newspaper’s journalists.
The throat of Colin Galloway, a 46-year-old reporter, was gripped and bruised by a man in his thirties who lifted him off his feet. Galloway was later examined under police supervision at hospital.
Tim O’Rourke, 45, was grabbed by the neck in his second bruising encounter involving the Mugabes in Hong Kong. Last month Grace Mugabe flew at him with her fists after repeatedly punching another Sunday Times photographer in the face in an incident that attracted worldwide publicity.
Hong Kong police said last night that inquiries into a case of alleged common assault on Friday were continuing.
The disclosures about the Mugabes’ Far Eastern interests are certain to anger Zimbabweans already outraged by extravagant celebrations laid on for the dictator’s 85th birthday this week.
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Hey, what do ya know, Google really is my friend!
Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle5734148.ece
Last edited by Irons; 02-14-2009 at 11:23 PM. Reason: I was feeling lazy, then I got scared of criticism, and secured an actual source. My world is one of fear.
Why do people in Zimbabwe put up with this clown?
Oh, I bet that sometime after Rhodesia gave itself over to the majority parties that the new leader took away all the privately owned guns. I'll wager that Zimbabwe has some serious anti-gun laws (I won't even Google it!).
And silly-ass people wonder why some of us are so violently opposed to being disarmed by our government!
Originally Posted by Walter Sobchak
I can answer the gun law query for you! NO GUNS ALLOWED! (except the police and military of course) When it was Rhodesia, everybody packed. Mugabe hated that! His goons never won a battle when it was like that, EVER! Even though they outnumbered the Rhodesians 20:1.
Thanks a lot Jimmy Carter.
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