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Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has said claims by the late former President Robert Mugabe that US$15 billion worth of diamonds from Marange were stolen could not be investigated because there was neither an accused person nor a complainant.

Responding to questions from journalists during a two-day anti-corruption reporting media workshop in Bulawayo which ended on Tuesday on whether ZACC had carried out investigations into Mugabe’s claims, ZACC deputy chairperson commissioner Kuziwa Phineas Murapa said (via NewsDay):

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> This is why we feel that this workshop is essential: when you stumble upon such information, give us the whole information and we will investigate.

> On the US$15 billion that the former President talked about, again nobody has come out to say who is the accused, and where they got the diamonds from.

> The investigation has to show who the complainant is, who the accused is and how you link the accused to the actual prejudice.

> So that link was not created, and we do not know who the complainant was, it was just a statement made.

Murapa also cast doubt on the possibility of the country having lost diamonds worth US$15 billion within a year as alleged by the late strongman. He said:

> If you speak to other authorities they tell you that for Zimbabwe to have had that sort of diamonds within a year or so, internationally it is impossible. So we never again got the full story as to who actually took those diamonds.

In 2015, Mugabe claimed that US$15 billion worth of diamonds might have been stolen from Marange diamond fields.

Mugabe’s startling assertions triggered a nationwide uproar, prompting citizens to call for an investigation into the matter to ascertain how the diamonds were stolen and who profited from the looting.

Mugabe later avoided a parliamentary probe after he was recused from giving oral evidence by the Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda.

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