“Mr van Hoogstraten, of Uckfield, East Sussex, owns about 200 properties in Zimbabwe”
He doesn’t own them, really, not in the “peoples’ paradise” of Zimbabwe.
He forget to bribe someone or are the Zim thugs looking to make one big score in ransom?
Yeah, if I had to guess, I’d say this is little more than a cover for them to take his money and his property.