We moved out of Zimbabwe successfully

Thanks god, we could move out of that location finally. We are being subjected to the worst blackmail and deformation process by some people who have practised corruption and abuse of state institutions for personal gain. Read more

We at AVIS Group are developing all over the world to build high-tech green facilities. In line with the institutional expansion policy of building green energy facilities, Zimbabwe was targeted by a local franchise partner in 2018, Mr. Rodrigue Mlauzi. From the beginning, we were aware that the state was subject to severe penalties.

Unfortunately, in the past two decades, we have witnessed chaotic criminal events with many people during the development of the AVIS green energy project and the movements of construction funds. As a result, we have been robbed for the past eight years. In Colombia, Macedonia, Australia, Canada, and Nigeria. We can classify these thefts as collateral damage, but we succeeded in launching our project despite all of that.

But Zimbabwe was different. Nothing ever worked out as contracted or agreed upon. All the actions that arose in that country were aggressive and deceitful money-hunting, right down to “extortion through the judiciary.”

In the year 2021, our South African franchise manager interested in advancing development in Zimbabwe started to register a private banking licence with cash import authorization. So, we contracted Mr. Pondai Dengu, a former employee of CBZ Bank, who promised that contracting would be the engine for the required processing. Unfortunately, after signing the contract with us, Mr. Dengu disappeared for weeks to travel and recuperate in several European countries and returned to claim his rights to millions of dollars from AVIS.

Our representative in South Africa, Mr. Sameer S., worked remotely with many people from Zimbabwe for months as managers to finish the AVIS project in Zimbabwe. He ignored all the warnings from the AVIS international management that a remotely contracting would not work and only open the door for corruption. It is impossible to validate unknown peoples to cover a job position, where banking is involved. Some of these people opened accounts at Stanbic Bank and ABC Bank in Zimbabwe. We transferred GB100,000,00 as a test into Stanbic Bank. The money disappeared. We have transferred €10,000 in tranches to Bank ABC. The money disappeared, and we couldn't figure out what happened. Later, the head offices of some banks involved discovered “dummy accounts” were created. Only good for receiving cash transfers, for disappearing to nowhere.

A law firm called “Titan Law” in Harare was working to create a purchase agreement for the acquisition of Bank ABC, but the sellers of the bank rejected any involvement of that law firm on suspicion of fraudulent activities.

Bank ABC and all its accounts in correspondent banks were then banned for corruption, and the bank's directors froze all sales of the bank's shares to an external potential buyer because they themselves were interested in buying the bank, and the deal fell through.

As an unexpected result of the Titan Law firm's claim from AVIS several millions in fees and charges for a deal that didn't happen, he asked for his commission to sell the bank, regardless of whether the bank was sold or not. We have encountered several unknown names with jobs in our local project, but we were unable to determine what they actually did. 

Some of these Zimbabwean team members requested that part of the capital ($30 million) must be transferred to a bank in Zimbabwe. However, experience has shown that all transfers to any bank in Zimbabwe contain a potential risk of losing, and we have consistently kept funds outside the territory of Zimbabwe. 

At the very least, we have moved out of that terror country to another jurisdiction, and our good bank accounts have been moved with us, maintained by international banks with branches in Zimbabwe. They have themselves had heavy problems with their own branches in Zimbabwe. We were very welcomed in a country nearby in Africa with the project and our infrastructure setup. They fast-tracked all our requirements for the AVIS project launch.

It is a shame that corruption remains rampant at this level in this country, because corruption is a fundamental problem facing development, it harms the poor and undermines progress. Corruption is not only a waste of resources, but also the cause of the collapse of infrastructure, the destruction of the environment, the abuse of power and exclusion, and the weakening of trust.

We have been coming to Zimbabwe as a constructor at our cost and with our own capital for a green energy construction project conforming to our global expansion. We have developments in 65 countries, green developments. For Zimbabwe, we have requested the most natural requirement for a high-volume project that costs us at least €1bln. Freedom for our capital and a piece of land we have expected, as we have considered Zimbabwe will be good for having security in power production, waste management, and hundreds of thousands of new jobs.

The Zimbabwean Citizens, who worked remotely, have been relocated to Spain. We have provided living, infrastructure and university schooling for them in Spain, where they are currently working in our IT departments.

Unfortunately, we are witnessing severe corrupt behaviour in some sovereign territories. Locals somehow become agents, intermediaries, facilitators, or perhaps processors of some papers for a local body. They get to know the extent of AVIS construction. Without any exception, we are not directly involved by the central administration in a project launch 15,000 km away. It is absolute nonsense to intervene in the day-to-day management from a distance. This is why we have created the franchise policy. A local major entrepreneur has to be our partner. He must acquire a franchise licence or compensate the franchise payments by providing a suitable infrastructure.

Land or industrial buildings are acceptable compensation. A common effect is the need for funding. Did they do something for the host's local project? We usually send cash to these countries via Western Union if assistance is required. It's complicated, and there are limits to sending money.

Very often we get into a storm of organised crime. These people do not understand that you really have to do something to get paid. Samer S. from South Africa was a different experience. The gentleman joined AVIS to line his pockets with millions. When his scheme did not work because we kept the funds out of reach, he used the scheme for blackmail and extortion. He used internal company data to create a shitstorm. We find copied signatures of international AVIS directors on documents drawn up by the Africans. None of these contracts were authorised by the AVIS group, but it looks like they were used to run up debts against the local company and were very welcome for the commission of an organised crime.

Perhaps it is because humanitarian aid in these places has greatly affected local people's understanding of how to take cash. Most people do not pay attention to the fact that a project requires a joint working team to develop a project. They simply consider any project developer who distributes funds to everyone as a gift. This effect, created by humanitarian aid from developed countries, leads to local people continuing to beg. People remain poor in a basic way. Of course, this is also the goal of the rich countries. They are absolutely not interested in making people intelligent. To show them how to create their own rich infrastructure. To produce food and water. To produce electricity and housing infrastructure. Africa and South America are the future of the world. The lack of government organizations and the land, minerals and unlimited development freedom they own require only a little will, understanding, and expertise.
This is where we at AVIS provide a high-tech infrastructure. We deliver energy and technology, higher education and green structures. We can provide such support in any country of interest, which is why we pay the bill ourselves. We are not asking for national debt to rob the poor of their wealth. Likewise, we created a QUANTUM Bank to force this change in all these countries. Understandably, the long war to teach poison spirits is coming. Supporting lifestyle change by fighting corruption and guiding projects into safe harbours.