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Article

9 Aug 2013

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Jewish Daily Forward (US)

Israeli Nikuv firm shuts Zimbabwe office after Robert Mugabe 'landslide'

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[Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Nikuv International Projects to respond. The company did not respond.] An Israeli company accused of helping rig Robert Mugabe’s reelection as Zimbabwe president reportedly hastily shut down its office in the capital of Harare as controversy swirls around its role in the tainted poll. Nikuv's...company representatives were nowhere to be found this week...The Independent newspaper reported [that]...Nikuv was a key player in Mugabe’s successful plan to win reeelection by stuffing ballot boxes, creating thousands of phony voter IDs and even creating polling places known only to supporters of his ZANU-PF party...Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change Party filed a court motion Friday asking judges to set aside the result and order a new election. The petition cited massive fraud and intimidation...The petition called Nikuv’s involvement in the election “worrying” and quoted government documents saying the Israeli firm has received $10 million in payments from the government...

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