The billionaire who ‘fixed’ Zitto Kabwe

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Mr Mabanga sued Mr Kabwe after the latter posted on his blog that he was involved in bribery deals in the lucrative gas sector in Tanzania currently valued at $430 billion.

The fixer says Vodacom’s private jet was put at his disposal and soon he was flying back and forth from the DRC, and later went to Paris. “At that point the two parties (Vodacom and CWN) were not talking to one another, they were not agreeing, fighting and would not even sit in one room together,” says Mr Mabanga who adds that after lengthy negotiations he got the parties together in the offices of Rothschild’s bank in Paris. When Mr Mabanga saved the day in Paris, Vodacom warmed to him and offered him more work, apparently going as far as enlisting him as a potential business partner in the Congo. In an earlier story, the Mail & Guardian says legal papers show Mr Mabanga consulted to Vodacom in the DRC under a company named Namemco Energy, registered in Cyprus, for 6 May 2007 and 31 July 2007. The second period was said to be between 12 September 2007 and 31 August 2008.

The billionaire who ‘fixed’ Zitto Kabwe

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