Zim anti-corruption head 'gets death threats'

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Harare - The head of Zimbabwe's central bank, handpicked by President Robert Mugabe to lead the government's anti-corruption drive, has received death threats from corrupt businessmen and politicians, a newspaper said on Sunday.

Gideon Gono, the governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), was quoted by the private Standard weekly as saying he had received threats and needed personal security.

"I have received serious death threats from corrupt bank managers, politicians and other company owners who were thriving from rampant corruption," Gono told a meeting of business leaders last week.

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