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Article

12 Aug 2013

Author:
Diamond Intelligence (Israel)

Israeli company at centre of Zimbabwe election-rigging allegations

[Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Nikuv International Projects to respond. The company did not respond.] Sources allege that Israeli security company Nikuv International Projects (NIP), which managed both the lists of registered voters and the handling of election results [in Zimbabwe], used several methods to fix the elections in favor of Mugabe and his ruling Zanu PF party...Sources said that among the different offices across Harare from where Nikuv conducted its election duties, one office in particular was located in the same building as Mugabe's Registrar-General, Tobaiwa Mudede. Mudede, who sometimes sits in Joint Operation Command (JOC), which brings together army, police and intelligence chiefs, is thought to have been instrumental in the hiring of Nikuv in 2000...Apart from Zimbabwe, Nikuv has operated in...Zambia, where it was taken to court in 1996 on allegations of election rigging, according to the news report.

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