Zim dismisses attorney-general
16/05/2008 20:55  - (SA)  

Suspended Zim A-G probed Zim attorney-general suspended

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Harare - Zimbabwe's suspended attorney-general was formally dismissed on Friday for misconduct after he met with a former top banker who was on the police wanted list, the government said.

The dismissal of Sobusa Gula-Ndebele follows recommendations from a special tribunal which probed the state's top lawyer after he allegedly met with James Mushore, former deputy managing director of National Merchant Bank (NMB) in September.

"The tribunal has advised ... the president (Robert Mugabe) that the attorney-general ought to be removed from office for misbehaviour.

"Accordingly, ... the attorney-general is removed from office with effect from the date of publication of this notice," said a notice posted in the government gazette on Friday.

Gula-Ndebele was arrested in November and suspended from office in December for meeting Mushore who had been on the police wanted list since 2004 for allegedly siphoning scarce foreign currency from Zimbabwe.

Mushore, who had been in Britain, had just sneaked back into the country when he allegedly met the attorney-general in September. He was later arrested.

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.

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