Nicholas van Hoogstraten busted in Zimbabwe...

[Morris Onions]

Property tycoon Nicholas van Hoogstraten has been arrested in Zimbabwe over allegations that he was illegally trading in foreign currency.

The 62-year-old Briton, a vocal supporter Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, is accused of receiving rent on a string of properties he owned in foreign currency, which is illegal in Zimbabwe.

Mr Van Hoogstraten, originally from Uckfield in East Sussex, is said to have had about 35,000 US dollars (£17,700), small amounts of other foreign currencies and 20 billion Zimbabwe dollars in cash - worth about £2,525 at the dominant illegal black market exchange rate.

Police who raided his home in the plush Harare suburb of Emerald Hill said they also found “compromising” pictures of Mr van Hoogstraten and a 22-year-old Zimbabwean woman, believed to be his girlfriend.

The pictures are being investigated under the Censorship Act, which bans pornography.
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Couldn't happen to a nicer c**t!

Thought he was Mugabes crony?

He must have upset someone pretty high up

I expect he'll bribe his way out of it though.