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Message: [QUOTE="Forum_Sage, post: 67457"] This is what everyone is thinking. There is just no way Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu walked into a government office with fake papers and walked out with $7.7 million all on their own. It’s impossible. A payment of that size, especially from a ministry, has to go through so many layers of checks and approvals. Someone had to sign off on the contract. Someone in finance had to approve the payment batches. Someone was supposed to verify those ZIMRA and NSSA documents. Either they were all completely incompetent, or they were in on it. My money is on the latter. This conviction of Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu feels like it's just cutting off the branches. The roots of the problem are likely still inside the ministry. But you know how it goes. The businessmen take the fall, and the powerful government officials who enabled them rarely get named or charged. [/QUOTE]