The contractors include Exodus and Company who were instructed to stop work on the Harare-Chirundu highway to prioritise the SADC rehabilitation as well as Fossil Contracting Oligarch Kuda Tagwirei's company which was placed under United States' sanctions in 2022...

It has emerged that Mnangagwa and his business partner Kudakwashe Tagwirei both under United States sanctions for grand corruption have been central to the design and construction of the MIF and its obsessively secretive operations (AC Vol 65 No 9 Washington targets Mnangagwa for rights abuses and corruption but sends mixed messages)...

A leading financier and beneficiary of the ZANU-PF regime Kudakwashe Tagwirei his wife Sandra Mpunga and his business partner Obey Chimuka are all included...

This account is held at CBZ a bank with close links to ZANU-PF where the majority share is held by an oligarch close to Mnangagwa Kudakwashe Tagwirei...

These parastatals include: Kuvimba Mining House – the body linked to mogul Kudakwashe Tagwirei that is currently staking out Zimbabwe's potential future lithium wealth; Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) – the bus company that has had a monopoly on public transport since the police took privately-owned commuter omnibuses off the roads; Hwange Colliery at the centre of multiple corruption cases including the 'loss' of millions of dollars intended for refurbishment under the management of now-Minister of Local Government Winston Chitando; State-owned companies managing energy transport agriculture industry and communications...

And Mangudya Reserve Bank governor since 2014 is accused of running it as a black box allocating foreign exchange at favourable rates to regime-linked businessmen such as Kudakwashe Tagwirei...

Africa Confidential here reveals how Chipango and another financial proxy for Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) leaders Kudakwashe Tagwirei keep popping up in multi-million dollar mining deals involving the military...

The scheme was run by Sakunda Holdings owned by Kudakwashe Tagwirei reportedly a former business partner of Simba's brother Derrick Chikore in the Dema diesel plant project (AC Vol 58 No 4 ZANU-PF digs for votes)...

The state shares are held by a number of parastatals and government companies among them Datvest Nominees an asset management division of the Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe (CBZ) which is allegedly owned by the economic kingpin of Zimbabwe's dodgy deals Kudakwashe Tagwirei (AC Vol 63 No 7 Sanctioned mogul adds steel to portfolio)...

But there is no sign yet of moves against the big fish in the world of cartels including the most controversial of all: Kudakwashe Tagwirei whose political connections have allowed him to gain control of a vast business empire encompassing major stakes in fuel imports banking and mining (AC Vol 62 No 3 Tagwirei's hold on gold)...