Gold smuggler tied to Kenyan plunder is back — now in Zimbabwe

Kamlesh Pattni offered Al Jazeera reporters his services to launder millions of dollars of unaccounted cash using Zimbabwean gold [Al Jazeera]

A gold smuggler implicated in a scandal that robbed Kenya of 10 percent of its GDP in the 1990s has moved his smuggling operation to Zimbabwe and Dubai, Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) can reveal.

Kamlesh Pattni was involved in the so-called Goldenberg scam, a gold smuggling operation that robbed Kenya of $600mn and led to charges of corruption against many members of then President Daniel Arap Moi’s government. After years of prosecution, Pattni was acquitted.