Zimbabwe’s anti-corruption body is probing former First Lady Grace Mugabe over allegations that she illegally grabbed residential stands worth more than US$10 million from an upmarket housing scheme in Harare.
The official Herald daily reported on Monday that the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has launched an investigation into land dealings by Mugabe following complaints that she used her then position to wrestle residential stands from a company that had been tasked with developing houses on one of the farms taken by the government under its land reform programme in 2005.
It is alleged that she connived with former local government minister Ignatius Chombo used their political clout to transfer stands from the development to companies they controlled without paying for that land.
According to a complaint filed with ZACC, the two are accused of using undue influence to grab the land in Harare’s leafy Borrowdale suburb, which had been allocated to the Sally Mugabe Housing Cooperative.
Mugabe is alleged to have transferred the illegally acquired land from the cooperative to companies under the directorship of two of her children, Bona and Robert Mugabe Jnr, as well as to some of her relatives.
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