December 07, 2007

From Reuters, 6 December: Man accused of using money as calling cards

From correspondents in Harare

A professional hunter has been arrested on suspicion he turned Zimbabwean bank notes into business cards and handed them out at a tourism fair. Zimbabwe is struggling with the world's highest inflation rate of about 8000 per cent because of an economic crisis and it is hard to buy anything with its smaller denomination "bearer cheque" bank notes. Harare police said today they had arrested Denis Paul, a 41-year-old professional hunter and lodge owner from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city, on charges of defacing bank notes. ....

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