The move escalates a clash between the government and company whose money transfer service facilitates the bulk of transactions in the southern African country. The government says its activities are contributing to the rapid depreciation of the national currency.
In an order against the company, the police accused the company of creating fictitious mobile money, converting it to cash and then buying foreign currency on the black market before sending it out the country.
On 26 June the country banned most of those transactions and has now said it plans to force Econet’s Ecocash unit to use a public money-transfer platform.
Calls to Econet’s spokesman, Fungai Mandiveyi, weren’t answered.- Bloomberg
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