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Suisse Secrets: Bank financed Zimbabwean fraudster in deal that saved Mugabe

The Swiss Secrets leak reveals Credit Suisse’s role in a controversial platinum mine sale that helped to finance a wave of violence around Zimbabwe’s 2008 election

Never far from controversy

Rautenbach’s Zim green firm ‘holds cows for ransom’

Villagers in Zimbabwe say tycoon Billy Rautenbach’s ethanol plant is fining them heftily for their straying livestock.

Zimbabwe’s government says it can’t be picky about who to do business with

Mugabe’s white ally in land-grab row

Zimbabwean peasant farmers accuse Billy Rautenbach of destroying their livelihoods.

Zanu-PF’s Green Fuel dilemma

Zanu-PF faces the difficult task of appeasing its supporters, who have been left fuming over Green Fuel’s expansion.

The planned biofuel plant in the Mwenezi district owned by Billy Rautenbach has been met with opposition from Masvingo governor Kudakwashe Bhasikiti.

Zim may lose $500-million

Billy Rautenbach is tangled in a spat over land use and is said to be ready to move a multimillion ethanol project to Zambia.

Muller Conrad ‘Billy’ Rautenbach.

Zanu-PF MP hits out at Rautenbach

Accused of being an extortionist, Temba Mliswa is now drawing President Mugabe into his fight with controversial businessman Billy Rautenbach.

Current account data means the rand is likely to remain weak and stoke inflationary pressures.

Zimbabwe government ‘induced’ flooding

Human Rights Watch says 20 000 people were displaced to make way for a new game reserve.

Zim: The steep price of access to power

A Zanu-PF politician is demanding millions for introducing controversial businessman Billy Rautenbach to key state officials.

State assessors have drastically reduced the estimated value of Billy Rautenbach’s

Zim: Rautenbach’s ethanol firm downgraded

The value of Billy Rautenbach’s fuels monopoly has been slashed, in spite of the state’s plan to take 51%.

Anger fuels ethanol U-turn in Zim

Zimbabwe’s government is accused of favouring sole licencee Billy Rautenbach by raising fuel’s ethanol content.

Big plans for ethanol ignore fears

A constitutional court case will test the legality of mandatory fuel blending in Zimbabwe.

Billy Rautenbach ‘scores’ ethanol increase

Zimbabwe’s government may strike a deal with Green Fuel, which is linked to controversial businessman Billy Rautenbach.

Agliotti ‘was quite a salesman’

After years on the run controversial businessman Billy Rautenbach was keen to have a warrant quashed, but ended up feeling used, writes Ilham Rawoot.

Rautenbach’s fast and furious ride to riches

Muller Conrad ”Billy” Rautenbach is a controversial businessman who has parlayed his closeness to the Zanu-PF government into a personal fortune.

Rautenbach served with Hyundai papers at Selebi trial

Billy Rautenbach was served with papers related to the affairs of the Hyundai group during his appearance at the trial of Jackie Selebi on Thursday.

Pikoli takes stand and tells of blackmail attempt

Former top cop Jackie Selebi allegedly tried to blackmail former prosecutions boss Vusi Pikoli into dropping charges against Billy Rautenbach.

Billy Rautenbach reported to be missing

Ex-Hyundai boss Billy Rautenbach is one of three missing witnesses due to testify in the corruption trial of former police chief Jackie Selebi.

Selebi’s woes are far from over

He was exposed as a barefaced liar, a suave scumbag with no scruples “knocking” millions off the wealthy in exchange for access to his “cash cop”.

An ace up his sleeve?

The National Prosecuting Authority’s recruitment of fugitive Billy Rautenbach to testify against Jackie Selebi may be its intended ace-in-the-hole.

Selebi trial: Inside gangstas’ paradise

If only a quarter of what Glenn ­Agliotti told the South Gauteng High Court this week is true, we live in a gangsters’ paradise.