ACCORDING to the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) fourth quarter report for the year 2023, over US$2.8 billion was transferred from Zambia to Asia. The FIC says this money is linked to what they are describing as suspected illicit financial transactions where the purpose of sending this money was either unclear or outrightly bogus. Where did all that money come from in our poor country? Who is behind this? We are told it is various companies, mostly of Asian origin, but using Zambian citizens as fronts in their businesses. In its newly introduced quarterly bulletin, the FIC stated that it had disseminated 450 reports to law enforcement agencies on suspected tax evasion, fraud, forgery and money laundering involving foreign nationals who...