Episode 3 of Al Jazeera “Zimbabwe Gold Mafia” documentary-El Dorado

Enter the Gold Mafia’s headquarters in Dubai, preferred destination of the world’s dirty gold.

As the rival mafia gangs compete to launder money for the I-Unit’s undercover team, we learn why gold is the perfect vessel to hide and move criminal wealth. One of Zimbabwe’s top diplomats, Ambassador Uebert Angel, is brokering a meeting between undercover reporters and President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

This meeting will secure the deal to launder $1.2 billion of dirty cash through gold and investments in Zimbabwe.

But first, the Ambassador needs to be paid.

Gold Mafia, a four-part series by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit looks at how society’s obsession with gold underwrites a global shadow economy.

Investigators obtain the blueprints of money laundering operations that service southern Africa’s economic and political elite. And the investigation leads to the highest offices of state.

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