The Coca Cola Company (TCCC) & the bribe of US$2.7 million paid to Chinamasa is exposed – As the GOLD MAFIA affairs unfolds like tsunami – Part 1

The Al Jazeera expose has lifted a lid of secrecy regarding the facts and circumstances leading President Mnangagwa exercising his discretionary power to appoint Prophet Uebert Angel to a diplomatic position that evidently is being used to benefit him personally in a manner that would be unthinkable in any constitutional republic that is open and accountable to the people in whose name public power exists and must be used in their interest.

As people are trying to digest the moral, legal and constitutional implications arising from the GOD MAFIA saga, it has been established that Chinamasa was the driving force behind the extortion of US$2.7 million in relation to the Schweppes Zimbabwe Limited (SZL) upgrade program involving the importation of state-of-the-art bottling and packaging equipment from European-based original equipment suppliers.

On 30 March 2006, the late Mr. Kaplan, who was appointed a joint liquidator of a company called Petter Trading Pty Limited (Peter) in September 2005 following the liquidation of the company at the instigation of Chinamasa using his appointee, Mr. Afaras Mtausi Gwaradzimba as his surrogate with the complicity of the top SA-based law firms i.e. Brink Cohen Le Roux (BCLR), ENS Africa Inc, and now DLA Piper Inc.

The key legal actors in this interstate corruption saga are Mr. Edwin Manikai of DMH attorneys, as the instructing attorney of the above mentioned law firms using the agency of Advocate Christo Bothma and Ms. Kirsty Simpson.

The facts set out in the letter below if they do not make any person clothed with common sense, logic and reason, then the prospects of Zimbabwe lifting itself out of its current quagmire is remote.

Please be pleased to take notice of the first page of the fax below:

The certificate of Appointment authorizing Mr. Van Den Heever who has jointly appointed together with the late Kaplan, and Elsie Wagner was apparently handed to Mr. Mokwena, a legal counsel of SZL and CCSA in support of Mr. Van Den Heever’s appointed not as a solo actor but one of joint liquidators.

OWNERSHIP OF SZL

It will be noted below that CCSA was represented by Mokwena as the owner of SZL yet in other correspondences, other units within the TCCC family were presented as the owner of SZL.

However, the issue of hypocrisy and bad faith conduct on the part of TCCC in this matter will be dealt with to permit the reader and follower of this interesting set of facts that will conclusively expose the unaccountable practice of multinational companies in relation to their business dealings in countries that are considered to be weak.

It is not in dispute that Mr. Solomon Tembo in his capacity as the Chief Operating Officer deposed to an affidavit as follows:

With respect to the SZL project, Mr. Tembo stated as follows:

The remainder of Mr. Tembo’s affidavit was as set out below:

THEFRAUD IN THE CCSA VERSION AS REPRESENTED TO PETTER’S LIQUIDATOR

It is clearly stated on paragraphs 8 and 9 that Chinamasa’s appointee, Gwaradzimba, advised CCSA as set out below:

Since 12 October 2006, CCSA has failed, refused and neglected to provide evidence supporting that FLAM and SMM under Chinamasa’s appointee, Gwaradzimba, did pay to Petter to acquire the disputed equipment.

However, to the extent that no payment was made by either by the captured SMM or FLAM, a company that had no obligation to pay for the upgrade costs, it follows that the bold assertion was fraudulent made with intent and knowledge to prejudice ARL and its sole shareholder, Mr. Mawere.

Mr. Brian Musekiwa, a Zimbabwean born American resident who is also a paid up member of BOAF and is active on the Justice Under Rule of Law (JUROL) initiative, “I was not aware of the severity of this blatant abuse of public power. I naively thought a global company like TCCC would know better to detect 419-like scums involving extortion and fraud.

It cannot escape a rational mind to know what Gwaradzimba meant by asserting that THE ADMINISTRATOR ASSUMED THE ROLE OF ADVISING CCSA AND HIS PURPORTED SELF-INTERESTED ADVICE WAS THAT IF THEY DID NOT PAY TO FLAM OR SMM UNDER HIS CONTROL, THE SEIZED ARL EQUIPMENT WOULD NOT BE RELEASED. THE EXTORTION OR RANSOM AMOUNT WAS SET AT $2.7 MILLION.

It is chilling that it was Chinamasa’s appointee who advised CCSA to be entangled in a money laundering scheme involving the payment in relation to property that did not belong to FLAM, SMM under reconstruction, and CCSA to the order of Chinamasa in his capacity as an oath taking public office bearer, to an opaque conduit who allegedly was to benefit from the stolen loot by purportedly supplying equipment with no description to the order of Gwaradzimba without the knowledge and traceability that any authentic deal would have called for.

It is worth highlighting that one of the original equipment manufacturers, a French-based company, ADS, following the fraudulent representations made by CCSA, followed up with the matter to test the veracity of CCSA’s version that FLAM/SMM under Gwaradzimba could possibly have paid for the equipment in question as follows

The second letter came from the Italian-based company, AVE Industries as set out below:

The third supplier, Germany-based company. Krauss Maffei, who asserted prior to the Chinamasa led hijack of SMM and recklessly targeted juristic entities including FLAM and SZL, as set out below:

This matter unlike many is supported with facts to allow people who are skeptical of the Al Jazeera expose to appreciate the pervasiveness of the corruption that was alive and well under the late Mugabe.