Mystery surrounds a plane from Egypt loaded with money, fake gold and guns that was seized in Zambia.
A private plane found with more than $5m in cash, fake gold, guns and ammunition on board is at the centre of a deepening investigation in the Zambian capital, Lusaka.
The world might have remained oblivious to it all were it not for a journalist whose fact-checking website, Matsda2sh, accused officials in Egypt of involvement in the incident.Soon after that Egyptian plainclothes security forces raided Karim Asaad's Cairo home in the dead of night and arrested him.Then independent Egyptian journalists published documents over social media purportedly taken from the Zambian police investigation into the cash-filled aircraft.
Soon after that the spotlight shifted to Zambia after the plane touched down at Lusaka's Kenneth Kaunda Airport.The plane is reported to have landed at Kenneth Kaunda Airport on 13 August What is not clear is if they managed to discover that what he was selling was actually counterfeit before security staff arrived to search the aircraft.Several of the officers who entered the plane are now being investigated for allegedly receiving up to $200,000 each from the Egyptian nationals aboard the plane. It is claimed this was their reward for allowing the plane to take off without arresting anyone.
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