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Article

9 Aug 2013

Author:
Zimbabwe Independent

Election rigging scandal deepens [Zimbabwe]

[Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Nikuv International Projects to respond. The company did not respond.] Election rigging allegations involving Nikuv International Projects (NIP), a[n]… Israeli security company…deepened this week amid revelations…[it] used several methods…to fix elections in favour of President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF…The cover up also seems to involve Mugabe’s spokesperson George Charamba’s claims last week that the two suspected Nikuv officials...who visited Mugabe at State House a day before the elections, were Group Five o (G5) executives...[T]he company’s…manager Greg Heale…denied [that] any of their executives met Mugabe last week. “Our delegation which visited Zimbabwe…in early July…did not meet with the president of Zimbabwe,"…Sources said…[Nikuv was] in charge of the voters’ roll which is riddled with duplicating of names, names of people outside the country, names of dead people and other irregularities which could have been manipulated to engineer results…Nikuv reportedly also issued fake voter registration slips which were used by Zanu PF supporters to vote at multiple polling stations.

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