Hopewell Chin’ono’s Conflicting Wealth Claims Spark Controversy.

Journalist Hopewell Chin’ono is at the center of a growing controversy due to contradictory statements about his wealth’s origins, particularly surrounding a mysterious £50,000 credit and property ownership.

Chin’ono initially claimed his foray into property was funded by a £50,000 credit from a UK institution or company for a sports car in 1996. He recounted how Dr. Tendai Maboreke, a mentor, advised him to invest in real estate rather than luxury items, stating, “I was sitting in my £50,000 sports car as a confused 25-year-old… Dr. Maboreke asked if I knew I could buy a house in Zimbabwe for the same price. It changed my life.” Notably, Chin’ono has not disclosed the name of the UK institution or company that provided this significant credit, leading to speculation and questions about the legitimacy of this claim.

However, in a recent twist, Chin’ono shifted his narrative to acquiring properties from selling cellphones between 2003-2006. He detailed the challenges and adaptability required for his mobile phone business in Zimbabwe, heavily relying on Air Zimbabwe for importing phones.

This stark contradiction in his stories has raised serious questions about the true source of Chin’ono’s wealth. The lack of clarity is compounded by his avoidance of crucial questions regarding his financial history in a 2021 interview with Geoff Nyarota, and the mystery surrounding his first 10 years in the UK, where he changed his name from Mukusha.

Further complicating matters are allegations from multiple complainants of credit and cheque fraud committed by Chin’ono before his name change. A human rights activist from the NHS, critical of Chin’ono’s support from Nelson Chamisa’s opposition party, accused him of actions potentially harmful to Zimbabwe. Additionally, women from his high school days allege misconduct, and Dr. Maboreke’s family has expressed concerns about the use of their name in supporting his property claims.

The situation leaves the public and authorities grappling with numerous unanswered questions. The critical issue remains the unnamed UK institution that purportedly granted Chin’ono a £50,000 credit, a detail that could shed light on the origins of his property empire. This lack of transparency, coupled with the serious allegations against him, demands a thorough investigation into Chin’ono’s financial history and business dealings.

By Simba Chikanza | Before he discloses the UK institution he says sprung him into property ownership with a £50,000 credit for a sportscar in 1996 at the age of 25, political commentator Hopewell Chin’ono today announces another riveting colourful-claim, that he acquired properties rather from selling cellphones a decade later. He has now fast-forwarded his own story to 2003-6, way before disclosing the name of the UK institution that gave the immigrant £50,000 credit at 25 – a sports car which he exported to Zimbabwe without its log book and which he illegally sold so to buy his posh Chisipite home.

In all his social media postings, the man drops colourful inspirational claims that divert the reader from the main question which is the source of his £50,000 credit that he says sprung him into property affluence.

So far, Hopewell Chin’ono’s first 10 years during the period he changed his own name from Mukusha, remains mysterious and during interviews as the one done by his former employer, the respected investigative journalist Geoff Nyarota in 2021 (link below in the comments area), he failed the most basic proceeds of crime test, by avoiding answering the crucial questions on the origins of his money he used to change his name and acquire vast properties without a single salary wage paper trail to show for it.

So far, multiple complainants have come up some on full colour video to say they witnessed Hopewell Chin’ono doing both credit and cheque fraud before he changed his own name, and some of his own personal friends from those times were convicted of fraud in the range of millions of pounds.

One of the Complainants is a human rights activist working in the NHS who decided to dump Nelson Chamisa’s opposition party over its support for him when he was first arrested and slapped with dismissable political charges of incitement to violence in 2020, and she said back then Hopewell Chin’ono would soon destroy Zimbabwe, because what he did to her son (bullying him and his father on the WhatsApp platform) without remorse, if he does it to Zimbabwe, there won’t be a chance of a reversal.

Some of the Complainant’s are women who are speaking since his 1989 High School days at Marlborough, Harare where he allegedly bullied his own headmaster, Arison Chiware who had allowed him into the institution despite poor GCSEs.

Women since those days allege harrowing accounts of a sexual misconduct level. Last week, he posted an allegation accusing a politician (pointedly Nelson Chamisa) of paying the women who have been speaking since the days when Chamisa was a 9 year old minor.

To date, Dr Maboreke’s family has told ZimEye they are concerned at the way he uses their family name to validate his claims of property ownership. (screenprints below)

Report by Simba Chikanza.

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