Who are the Gold Mafia? Godmen, conmen and a president’s niece

From new-age pastors to old-school smugglers, and from diplomats to the Zimbabwe president’s niece, they are driving gold smuggling and money laundering worth billions of dollars in Southern Africa [Al Jazeera]

They are rival gangs — with many different characters. From new-age pastors to old-school smugglers, and from diplomats to the Zimbabwean president’s niece, Al Jazeera’s latest investigation, Gold Mafia, has uncovered a band of criminals driving gold smuggling and money laundering worth billions of dollars in Southern Africa.

These are some of the key individuals running the mafia.