Zim attorney-general suspended
15/12/2007 11:05  - (SA)  

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Harare - Zimbabwe's attorney-general has been suspended on misconduct charges after he met a former banker who is on the police wanted list, a state daily reported Saturday.

"President (Robert) Mugabe has, with immediate effect, suspended the attorney-general, Mr Sobusa Gula-Ndebele, and set up a three-member tribunal to look into allegations that he abused his office," the Herald newspaper said.

Citing a statement from the chief secretary to the president and cabinet, the newspaper said the tribunal "will make its recommendations to President Mugabe on whether or not Mr Gula-Ndebele should remain as the country's attorney-general".

Gula-Ndebele was arrested last month after he allegedly met in September with James Mushore, former deputy managing director of National Merchant Bank (NMB).

Mushore had been on the police wanted list since 2004 on charges of siphoning foreign currency from Zimbabwe.

He had just sneaked back into the country from Britain.

Police said Mushore and three colleagues set up a money transfer agency in London in breach of Zimbabwe's strict foreign exchange laws and siphoned funds to offshore accounts.

In May the central bank revoked NMB's foreign exchange licence after staffers moved at least four million US dollars to foreign bank accounts without authorisation from the central bank.

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