No one can stop talking about the self -adjuded knight who handed out the cars

Zimbabwe’s percussion tycoon has a nation – some embarrassed, others are disturbed – its habit is giving cars together with cash to those who consider them patriotic – even presenting them to those whom he has never met.

Mercedes-Benzes, Toyota Suvs, Range Roker-these are the vehicles of Viniken Chiva’s choice for recipients that vary from music stars, vocalists, football players, church leaders and those who are committed to Zanu-PF.

A contradictory 44-year-old man stands behind the white royal Royce and has the fleet of personalized luxury cars, some of which he also started giving As it gets into new models.

For many years, “Sir Vicnel”, as he calls himself, loved to boast of his wealth through Instagram – tells in detail that the tabloids are exposed – but while he is open about how he spends his money, he is less about how he does when he faces close attention to the source of his wealth.

In the last year or so, his account on the social media was also overflowing with reports of his donations.

They go according to a similar scheme: Photo of a shiny car with balloons tied to it – Sometimes with a big bow on the hood – it is accompanied by a message about the congratulations to the one who with the instructions on where they should collect it, usually from the different luxury car shows he uses in the capital, Harare.

“Please go and look Victor in exquisite engines, your brand new Range Rover autobiography is fully paid and ready to collect,” he said Last month’s main musician JaisaAdding that $ 150,000 (111,000 pounds) was also waiting for him.

“This is just a small sign of my gratitude for your huge contribution to Zimbabwean music and your patriotism into the unification of thousands of people through music, preaching peace, preaching love and preaching unity in every song.”

The volume of his “public gift” became almost frantic – it even rearranges the joking memes about it. In the social media, Zanu-PF accounts eliminate it in the praise, providing its philanthropy.

In the private series, Viknella – as everyone knows, also launched houses and studied scholarships for the followers of their Apostolic Church, the Christian Church of Zion, known for their white clothes and worshiped in the open air.

Quietly talking, a heavy entrepreneur who symbolized the growing “flexible culture” of Zimbabwe – the desire to personally break out the wealth and on the Internet.

“$ jump and spending money – it’s just some of my hobbies,” He wrote in 2013When he first launched on Instagram, next to the hotel cart full of his shopping.

This happened soon from quip: “Damn rich is a headache”, and a photo of his huge collection of shoes when he tried to decide whether to wear a couple of Louis Vuton or Salvatore Feroh.

And so he continued from the holidays in Dubai, New York, Paris, London and Business trips to Johannesburg, Shanghai and New Delhi -and most recently reports of their new private plane.

He also likes to demonstrate his closeness to power – posing photos with politicians, from the late President Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe and its successor Emmerson Mnangagwa yes, most recently other African leaders such as The decision of the tanzania itself Hassan and William Ruto in Kenya.

“He is very practical in his affairs, very strongly on the ground and leads tabs on how every center is held,” said a businessman who had previously engaged Mr. Chiva and asked to remain unknown, “the BBC said.

“It is clear that he is politically protected,” he said.

In the shouting chaos late British mercenaries and coup fence Simon MannThe memory of his time in 2011, who remained in the Zikruba prison in Zimbabwe, a former British army officer that his “well-educated” prisoner Viknell warned him never to criticize Zan-PF.

The couple was in the same cell block – Mann served four years for his role in the unsuccessful coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea in 2004 and a couple of years of Chiva for fraud.

“In Africa, an undesirable gift is massively powerful,” he quotes him as a seemingly prophetic comment.

Between them, they paid cigarettes for the prisoner’s services, serving 94 years of armed robbery to make their laundry. Mann said the Chiva had insisted on calling him a “butler”.

Both remained friends with Sir Ukneel By placing their smiling photos together In 2013, the year that seems to have been a turning point.

It was when, as well as going to Instagram, its company Intratrek Zimbabwe and Chinese firm was tended to build a solar power plant worth $ 172.8 million.

But the project later became involved in the accusation of fraud – a few years later stated that Intreatrek was paid an advance to get started at a 100 MW plant in Guanda, but was unable to provide the state -owned company Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC).

He, in turn, sued ZPC for lifting contact over the dispute. He won the case and was later justified all criminal cases.

Sir Viknell shy, talked about his dislike for journalists and politely refused my interview request.

But in a rare walk on the radio for breakfast last year he was asked directly how he made money.

In his heart tones, he said his main business was state tenders provided by foreign partners in renewable energy, engineering procurement, construction and energy projects. He said he also had companies in Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania.

Late last year his company IMC Communications was licensed as a partner by Starlink Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellite Internet service provider.

In Instagram it was a lot More arrogance about your “Midas Touch” – Saying he is a “noise” that works a lot. He also attributes his success as a “homemade millionaire” with his modest background, which grows satellite village Hararea Chituhois, where his family fought after his father died when he was 10 years old.

He usually resolves the “throw” photos with his late teenager when he got a job as a salary in a bus company through a family friend. “I remember I was my only age with my cellphone in Chitu language,” – He said about his hardworking ethics.

A supporter of the Zan-PF, which he had previously attributed to the success of the party’s expansion policy, which was launched in 2013, and forced all companies to give way to the Black Zimbwi economic control.

Some see it as a successful example of this indigenous policy, creating a new class of black businessmen, but others believe that some of its wealth is the result of corruption and muddy relations from power – which he brutally denies.

In February, when asked about Sir Vic Vikta, the President of Mangangwa dismissed the accusation that the businessman acts as a frontman. “Where would I get the money to give it? … You can’t bother me about who is charity,” he told reporters.

Zimbabwe on Corruption (Zacc) did Run the request Last year, after the South African Investigation of the Non -profit Open Secrets Organization allegedly received in 2023 as a tender for election materials to the Zimbabwe (ZEC) election commission.

The scandal was subjected to the balls when the audio message leak is supposed to be Mr. Chiva, who talks about this deal, also seemed to concern two other businessmen, comforting them for not receiving the promised deviations, believing that many more transactions were in the pipeline because “we have them.”

The fall was entertaining. ZEC denied any communication with Mr. Chivay or other menThey all denied the allegations – and did not accuse anyone for a year.

Mr. Chivay said that the audio was probably a deep fake generated by sophisticated technology. He also apologized to the president for any impression that the audio may have created that the first family was corrupt.

But shortly after that, Both businessmen mentioned in audio were arrested and accused of illegally appropriating about $ 7 million in a separate case. They deny the allegations related to the tender of the presidential goats, and spent almost a year in prison, waiting for the trial.

This week since March, more Hoo-Ha has been held on the alleged leak over the alleged $ 500 million contract with the last name Mr. Chiva, a specified director of the Zimbabwe government equipment supplying equipment for four years.

The indignation is that if it is true, it has not gone through the public tender process. The government and Mr. Chiva rejected these allegations, noting that the so-called contract that is advertised as evidence has not been signed.

“For a whole group of opposition outfits, the noise about the unsigned document is an awkward despair for political importance,” – Mr. dear said.

The father of two, Not long married At a complex wedding ceremony with more than 15,000 guests, he said he was not interested in becoming a politician.

For him, it’s all about the money – and he says he is determined to see his “haters”. Recently posing its planeHe wore a sports suit with a giant “B”, decorated on a sportswear, saying: “Note,” B “is the inevitable status of a billionaire who goes on my way against all the chances.”

But his close ties with the power that allowed him to become rich mean that he will always fly close to disputes.