Zimbabweans return Sh59.8 billion illegally stashed abroad

A man holds up d 200 million and 500 million Zimbabwe dollar notes in the capital Harare December 12, 2008. /REUTERS
A man holds up d 200 million and 500 million Zimbabwe dollar notes in the capital Harare December 12, 2008. /REUTERS

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Monday that companies and individuals had returned $591 million (Sh59.8 billion) in funds illegally stashed abroad.

Some $827 million was still outstanding.

The money was returned was after a 90-day amnesty to bring it back expired last week.

Mnangagwa announced a three-month amnesty for the return of public funds illegally stashed abroad when he was sworn-in in November after a defacto military coup forced Robert Mugabe to resign.

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