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内容摘要:in some areas than in others during this election cycle.

in some areas than in others during this election cycle.

According to a price list for Apple products provided to Al Jazeera, BMG International sells smartphones produced for use in India, China, Japan, and the Middle East.“But most of the devices, if not all, are made in India”, the sales manager said.

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He said his company gets smartphones produced “for Arabic countries” directly from Apple and devices produced for other countries from affiliated companies.He said that receiving payments directly from Russia might be problematic because banks in Dubai “are now asking too many questions and can reject the payment”.To get around this, he said, he uses intermediaries to accept payments on his behalf – to avoid problems with his bank.

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“We can introduce you to our partners in Moscow, you can send the payment to them in a Russian bank and they send money to us here,” he said.“They will take a commission, of course.”

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When directly approached by Al Jazeera, BMG refused to provide a comment.

Apple products are by no means an exception.— over $2bn — of the country’s exports. But the nation faces a strict international sanctions regime, and even though its gold trade is not in itself banned by the West, the broader strictures against Zimbabwe make it harder to export the precious metal through official channels.

However, using a web of companies and patronage from some of Zimbabwe’s most powerful individuals, smugglers have turned those constraints on trade into an opportunity to launder billions of dollars and help the government in Harare get around some of the consequences of sanctions.The process is as simple as it is cunning: Criminals from around the world with large volumes of unaccounted cash can give that money to the Zimbabwean government, directly or through smugglers. The Zimbabwean government desperately needs US dollars since the county’s own currency has little international value following years of hyperinflation.

In exchange, launderers get clean, legitimate cash — from the sale of Zimbabwean gold — transferred to their bank accounts.‘Good washing machine’

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