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schema:articleBody	A Belarus businessman with alleged ties to leader Alexander Lukashenko and who was arrested earlier this month in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was freed Wednesday and flew to Zimbabwe. Alexander Zingman, who is also honorary consul for Zimbabwe, was arrested in DR Congo's second city Lubumbashi on March 18. The 54-year-old, who also holds US nationality, announced his release upon arrival in the Zimbabwean capital, and alleged that he had been set up. "Just today, we were released from a detention centre of security intelligence services ...in Kinshasa," he told reporters at a Harare hotel. Zingman had been held along with another Belarusian Oleg Vodchits and Italian businessman Paolo Persico. Zingman said their arrest coincided with media reports that said they were "armed dealers coming to the country to do a coup and training some people. "This is totally nonsense. We became huge victims of wrong information," he claimed. After arriving in Kinshasa, the trio's passports were confiscated "without any explanation", Zingman said. "After all the cross-checking ... we are totally cleared by all the four security agencies of the DRC that we have nothing to do with arms trafficking, or training, (and) that we are legal businessmen that came for agriculture and mining business," he added. Zingman admitted they had met ex-president Joseph Kabila twice during visits in 2020 and earlier this year on agricultural business, calling the former leader "one of the biggest farmers in the DRC". According to reports in Belarus, Zingman has close ties to top officials in about a dozen African and Middle Eastern countries. When he was arrested, Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya tweeted that "the arrest of the oligarch & alleged arms trader Alexander Zingman should be the first step to investigate his shady businesses & close ties with the Belarusian regime". But Zingman denied any political links, stressing that he was just a businessman doing deals in various African countries. str-sn/wai
schema:headline	Belarus businessman freed in DR Congo, flies to Zimbabwe
schema:mentions	Alexander Lukashenko Dominican Republic Italian language Svetlana Alliluyeva Joseph Kabila Zimbabwe national cricket team Arms trafficking Russian oligarch Alexander the Great Kinshasa Belarus Democratic Republic of the Congo Zimbabwe Agriculture Hotel City Paolo Persico Roman consul Lubumbashi Harare »more»
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schema:datePublished	2021-03-31 (xsd:date)
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