Central Bank's Currency Conversion Invalid, Zimbabwe Court Rules
A High Court in Zimbabwe has set aside a central bank exchange control directive which had unilaterally ordered the conversion of U.S. dollar bank account balances into Zimbabwe dollar balances at a fraction of their original value. At the time, the directive destroyed billions of dollars in savings and wreaked havoc on pension funds.
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Zimbabwe:
High Court Sets Aside Currency Separation
The Herald, 14 May 2020
The High Court has today declared invalid the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Exchange Control Directive No. R120/2018, which created FCA "nostro" accounts as distinctive from "RTGS"… Read more »
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