Al Jazeera infiltrates large gold-smuggling rings and reveals a giant money laundering scheme.

Al Jazeera infiltrates large gold-smuggling rings and reveals a giant money laundering scheme.

Gangs that smuggle gold and launder money, that is what the Gold Mafia investigation is about. But who are they exactly?
![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]](https://cdn.statically.io/img/web.archive.org/web/20231021013508im_/https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/whois43.jpg?resize=570%2C380&quality=80)
Uebert Angel, appointed by President Mnangagwa, offered undercover Al Jazeera reporters his diplomatic cover to launder.

Kamlesh Pattni, implicated in the Goldenberg scandal which almost bankrupted Kenya, is now smuggling gold from Zimbabwe.
