A laptop stolen by State security agents from presidential aspirant Simba Makoni’s senior adviser Nkosana Moyo has revealed some of his financiers.

“The laptop had emails, showing correspondence between fundraisers for Makoni’s presidential campaign bid, originated from outside the country and invitations by an investment company Citigroup and Smith Corporate Advisory to a fundraising function to be hosted by (Nkosana) Moyo,” reads an email leaked by one of the coordinators.

On 4 March, The state run Herald exposed Citigroup and SABMiller - formerly South African Breweries - as part of the international corporates fundraising for Makoni’s presidential campaign.

British equity investment firm Actis Africa - where chief fundraiser for Makoni’s presidential bid Moyo is managing partner - was being used as a conduit to channel the money to Zimbabwe.

Reacting to the story, SABMiller denied it was involved in the Makoni fundraising but admitted that a fundraising lunch was held in London last month although it turned down an invitation to attend.

However, SABMiller said the company’s worker Zimbabwean-born Christine Thompson, attended the function in “an entirely personal capacity”.

Moyo is now claiming that information about the Britain fundraising function leaked after his laptop was stolen in Harare by Government-sent thieves.

“They set out to steal my laptop, they have gone through it and now they are abusing every information on it,” Moyo is quoted on the emails from the coordinators as saying.

He says he did not report the theft to police because he then believed that it was “the ordinary work of criminals at robot intersections”.

Moyo has also said that he wants the State to prove how it obtained the information because the emails did not originate from Zimbabwe.

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