Wikileaks: Grace Mugabe sues over diamond claims

[pampango]

Source: BBC

Grace Mugabe is suing a Zimbabwean newspaper over its reporting of claims released by Wikileaks she had made "tremendous profits" from the country's diamond mines. The president's wife is demanding $15m (£9.6m) from the Standard newspaper.

The Marange fields in eastern Zimbabwe are said to be among the world's richest. Army commanders and allies of President Robert Mugabe have been accused of profiting from diamond sales.

The Standard, a weekly paper, on Sunday reported the claims quoting a US diplomatic cable released by the whistle-blowing website, Wikileaks.

It quoted former US ambassador James McGee as reporting Andrew Cranswick, head of a British mining firm as saying: "There is a small group of high-ranking Zimbabwean officials who have been extracting tremendous diamond profits from Chiadzwa ". The cable names them as Grace Mugabe and Central Bank governor Gideon Gono, among other officials from the military and President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12007142

[tomm2thumbs]

1. either way, she wins... if she did make profits, or if she didn't and wins the suit

ain't life grand

[Javaman]

2. "are you going to believe me or your lying eyes?"

So she wants to sue a newspaper who is just reprinting a report from a guy who was just releasing information from another guy who downloaded it off a computer from an agency that investigated this issue.

We live in very strange times.